M-m-m-my Corona…

[57vintage]

Quite right too.
Although they will have to actually organise a vaccine passport app that works.

They’re tackling things alphabetically, so “vaccine passport” is well down a list including “education”, “ferry boats” and “pish-up in a brewery”.

[Mason89]

They’re tackling things alphabetically, so “vaccine passport” is well down a list including “education”, “ferry boats” and “pish-up in a brewery”.

There will never be any significant improvement in education standards in this country, until the older generation of teachers pack it in. The problem with the ferry is with the folk building it & while I agree that any pish up organised by the SNP/Greens wouldn’t be the greatest, take a moment to picture the alternative.

[Mason89]

We could have wiped out the taliban and averted the crisis if we’d only returned a few of the prisoners infected with COVID.

There’s a flaw in that plan too

[57vintage]

There won’t be any improvement in educational standards, including equality of provision, attainment and achievement, until politicians move away from the arrogance/insecurity/panic they’re prone to when their experience is of running local authority committees and staying on-message to climb the party ladder. New teachers are coming on board all the time, but there are just as many getting out of the mess that it’s become. There are huge volumes of experience, ideas, energy and dedication in the sectors I worked in for 15 years, held back by timid, or aggressive ‘management teams’, a need due to lack of funding to run educational establishments on ‘business lines’, running the staff at 140 MPH constantly, and spending more time on performance indicators, preparation for audits and inspections, as demanded by politicians than on improving learner experiences. Quality control has disappeared in Swinney’s panic in 2020 and Somerville being caught in main beam, having form for being a useless, non-listening bureaucrat in her last shottie at it. When interviewing candidates for positions whose qualifications were gained in 2000 when Higher Still was new, and improperly introduced, I have seen doubts expressed about the veracity of such qualifications. 2020 and 2021 are bound to be similar given the poor quality control applied to assessment. Will such justifiable worries be given an ear? Will they ****.

Try finding out who has held the education portfolio since 2007, and it’s impossible to work out. The spin machine has ensured that titles of ministerial responsibility are constantly changed, ‘responsibilities’ are conflated or are titled so that it’s impossible to see continuity.

They’re fuucking useless.

[nice1simmy]

There will never be any significant improvement in education standards in this country, until the older generation of teachers pack it in. The problem with the ferry is with the folk building it & while I agree that any pish up organised by the SNP/Greens wouldn’t be the greatest, take a moment to picture the alternative.

Theres a flaw in that plan too

[57vintage]

Theres a flaw in that plan too

It rather does bring to mind the auld wifie (can't post pics via this device) who when interviewed in late 1970 or early 71 about the impending decimalisation of the 240d/pound to the current 100p/pound, "I think they should wait until all the old people are dead until it's introduced".

On 16 Feb 1971, the day after the change, we skelped the Jute waankers 2-0 in a cup replay. Joe Harper was injured (a leg gash, as, I recall) and with his unavailability for three games, our title challenge stuttered. I still rate the 70-72 squad as highly as I do the 84 alumni.

[Mason89]

I don’t doubt that any of that is true. I’m just not convinced Annie Wells would improve the situation. I still think there’s a generation of teachers out there that couldn’t give a f*ck about modern education methods. There’s also a strange fixation in this country of parents wanting their kids to be as miserable at school as they were. Bring back the belt, that’ll learn them!

Edit - poor spelling. I blame the skoolz

[donsdaft]

Of course, spending a bit more time teaching and a lot less time being f’ucking social workers might help.

Ooooh, it’s their mental health.

[Mason89]

There’s also a strange fixation in this country of parents wanting their kids to be as miserable at school as they were

Of course, spending a bit more time teaching and a lot less time being f’ucking social workers might help.

Ooooh, it’s their mental health.

[donsdaft]

You Mason, would spend 4 years helping them make up their minds whether they were boys or girls.

They, would just see you all as a bunch of tossers and skive like f’uck.