O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[Geoff Parkstone]

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But if you are happy to give back your platinum lined teachers pension fund, I would consider paying off your 100 bank overdraft for you

OK, I realised that benefit may have diminished now, but as I understand it teachers traded it away for a better pay scale, so can afford the repayments of the cost of educating themselves to educate others.

NB this comment is not personalised because the same can be said of civil service and other state controlled stipends......

[AdiSalisbury]

Lol...if I’d charged what you do (ph ph) for teaching the guitar I could have retired after a year.

Anyway...thought you were some sort of armed forces civil servant, so you’d be the same.

You are welcome to insult me in anyway you see fit, but civil servant?!!! No, defence companies are privatised these days.

[ramAnag]

You are welcome to insult me in anyway you see fit, but civil servant?!!! No, defence companies are privatised these days.

Sorry...my mistake, no offence intended.

‘Platinum lined teachers’ pensions’. Yeah, right! It’s okay...not complaining but I wouldn’t want to rely on it...and nothing else.

[swaledale]

Yes HND does exist, and often accepted on par with a degree (after all, its the same course, level and criteria, just marked from day one and doesn't require the 3rd year). I disagree that apprentiships are looked down upon, if anything I'd say people are happier to take on someone fresh from an apprentiship with workplace experience, than a wet behind the ears graduate who thinks they're something special but can't tie their shoelaces.

Not all graduates are "wet behind the ears", I think lumping them in that category is as much reverse snobbery as looking down on people who don't go to uni and have an Apprenticeship or some other form of practical training.

My kid that went to Uni has had jobs since 14 and worked for a year before going and had temp jobs after graduating, no problem getting a permanent job so yes your right employees like to see a graduate who has an understanding of what "work" is like.

Mind you one only has to look at people who get some top jobs to realise that a lot of them have never worked at a "real job" in their lives!

[AdiSalisbury]

Not all graduates are "wet behind the ears", I think lumping them in that category is as much reverse snobbery as looking down on people who don't go to uni and have an Apprenticeship or some other form of practical training.

My kid that went to Uni has had jobs since 14 and worked for a year before going and had temp jobs after graduating, no problem getting a permanent job so yes your right employees like to see a graduate who has an understanding of what "work" is like.

Mind you one only has to look at people who get some top jobs to realise that a lot of them have never worked at a "real job" in their lives!

I was joking with the shoelaces thing, I wear slip ons these days.

[swaledale]

I was joking with the shoelaces thing, I wear slip ons these days.

Sign of age that, the only things i slip on are..........

[Trickytreesreds]

Sign of age that, the only things i slip on are..........

Dresses?

[ramAnag]

Mind you one only has to look at people who get some top jobs to realise that a lot of them have never worked at a "real job" in their lives!

Well done Swale...we’d wandered and that sentence has certainly got us back to ‘the Government’ and our ‘leaders’.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Sign of age that, the only things i slip on are..........

Condoms?

Banana skins?

Dog crap?

[Geoff Parkstone]

Well done Swale...we’d wandered and that sentence has certainly got us back to ‘the Government’ and our ‘leaders’.

Did you know that in 1997, 126 of our leaders (MPs) were former teachers? 20% of the lower House! So I guess that explains the lack of leadership with real jobs in their past.

Since then that number is way down I imagine, but I wonder why there was such over representation at the time? Perhaps all part of rA type plan to infiltrate the legislature and waive student loans for teachers.