Comments on: Introduction to the Blog http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/introduction-to-the-blog/ A Blog About Teaching in Tough Schools in the UK Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:43:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: oldandrew http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/introduction-to-the-blog/#comment-994 oldandrew Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:36:47 +0000 http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/introduction-to-the-blog/#comment-994 I take a few steps to protect myself. I change the name of everything and everyone. I will wait before posting about events, even now I have entries written over a year ago that I am saving until more time has passed. I have changed schools often enough to have some safety (including a couple of switches of Local Authority). Oh, and I don't answer questions like the ones above. I'm relatively safe regarding the blog because it is not that widely read (nobody has ever linked it with me yet). Some of my other projects are potentially more likely to get me identified. Even if I were to be identified I could only be sanctioned if the schools involved were willing to identify themselves and be publicised in the process. Hopefully, none of them are that desperate. Also I'm very good at my job, which is in a shortage subject, which I can teach to A-level and beyond, and I am willing to live on MPS if I need to, so it would be hard to blacklist me. Failing that I've got a friend teaching in an English Language School in Thailand who often encourages me to join him, so I guess that would be another "out" if I became unemployable over here. So I think I'm safe. I might find out for certain in the next year or so, as I do more to promote my writing. I take a few steps to protect myself.

I change the name of everything and everyone. I will wait before posting about events, even now I have entries written over a year ago that I am saving until more time has passed. I have changed schools often enough to have some safety (including a couple of switches of Local Authority). Oh, and I don’t answer questions like the ones above.

I’m relatively safe regarding the blog because it is not that widely read (nobody has ever linked it with me yet). Some of my other projects are potentially more likely to get me identified. Even if I were to be identified I could only be sanctioned if the schools involved were willing to identify themselves and be publicised in the process. Hopefully, none of them are that desperate.

Also I’m very good at my job, which is in a shortage subject, which I can teach to A-level and beyond, and I am willing to live on MPS if I need to, so it would be hard to blacklist me.

Failing that I’ve got a friend teaching in an English Language School in Thailand who often encourages me to join him, so I guess that would be another “out” if I became unemployable over here.

So I think I’m safe. I might find out for certain in the next year or so, as I do more to promote my writing.

]]> By: Snuffy http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/introduction-to-the-blog/#comment-989 Snuffy Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:54:23 +0000 http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/introduction-to-the-blog/#comment-989 Aren't you worried about getting caught? I mean, aren't you worried that the people above you will find out about your blog? Wow. You're brave. I like that. How many years have you been teaching? And what do you teach? And how old are you? Or is that too many questions? Aren’t you worried about getting caught? I mean, aren’t you worried that the people above you will find out about your blog? Wow. You’re brave. I like that. How many years have you been teaching? And what do you teach? And how old are you? Or is that too many questions?

]]> By: Burnden Park http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/introduction-to-the-blog/#comment-385 Burnden Park Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:24:19 +0000 http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/introduction-to-the-blog/#comment-385 The corridore of death sounded sooo familiar. I did the first 1/2 term of this year in a similar room- on the other side was the Lab techs rather than a fire door. But the rest!!!! The disciplin was a bit of an 'issue' routinly kids would storm out of a lesson on either end and drift along the corridore kicking the walls & door in passing. Occasionally the massed truants would have a 'rumble'- i.e. put their hoodies up and run around the school causing the maximum disruption. The second 1/2 term there was worse! I didn'y have a regular class room and some days could teach all 5 lessons in different rooms- not always in dept either! Co-incidentally they have trouble recruiting too. The corridore of death sounded sooo familiar.
I did the first 1/2 term of this year in a similar room- on the other side was the Lab techs rather than a fire door. But the rest!!!!
The disciplin was a bit of an ‘issue’ routinly kids would storm out of a lesson on either end and drift along the corridore kicking the walls & door in passing. Occasionally the massed truants would have a ‘rumble’- i.e. put their hoodies up and run around the school causing the maximum disruption.

The second 1/2 term there was worse! I didn’y have a regular class room and some days could teach all 5 lessons in different rooms- not always in dept either!

Co-incidentally they have trouble recruiting too.

]]> By: lilyofthefield http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/introduction-to-the-blog/#comment-384 lilyofthefield Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:03:44 +0000 http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/introduction-to-the-blog/#comment-384 I went to an interview on Thursday for a job as a technician - in the school I walked out of as a teacher, incidentally, so my hopes were not high. The bloke who interviewed me (appallingly) seemed very anxious to know why I'd left teaching, and my one-sentence pat reply did not satisfy. If only I'd had this page to hand. I went to an interview on Thursday for a job as a technician - in the school I walked out of as a teacher, incidentally, so my hopes were not high. The bloke who interviewed me (appallingly) seemed very anxious to know why I’d left teaching, and my one-sentence pat reply did not satisfy. If only I’d had this page to hand.

]]> By: Eureka! http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/introduction-to-the-blog/#comment-383 Eureka! Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:40:50 +0000 http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2006/10/24/introduction-to-the-blog/#comment-383 Hi there Blogger! Can't you have a name BTW.... I look forward to following your blog, and hopefully be a regular commenter, in a constructive sort of way. :-) Hi there Blogger! Can’t you have a name BTW….

I look forward to following your blog, and hopefully be a regular commenter, in a constructive sort of way. :-)

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