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Skybluefaz

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,766
Brighton Sky Blue said:
We are still doing internal exams remotely. Mrs BSB will have to mark about 200, I’ll have 190. Have been told they must be turned around by the end of the exam period.

Eezeh
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Sounds fantastic, enjoy yourselves
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,767
Skybluefaz said:
Sounds fantastic, enjoy yourselves
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All done on Microsoft Forms with no time limit
 

Ian1779

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,768
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Don’t you know we get 51 weeks holiday a year and always clock out at 3?
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2:45 on Fridays....
 

Ian1779

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,769
Brighton Sky Blue said:
All done on Microsoft Forms with no time limit
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How does that give you any useful information about the kids? Is that a school/trust directive?
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,770
FAO Astute:

Smoking probably puts you at greater risk of coronavirus, not less
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,771
Ian1779 said:
How does that give you any useful information about the kids? Is that a school/trust directive?
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Yup and in the missus’ case means she’ll get several hundred essays written with no word or time limit. Trying to use Dom’s Positive Thinking mix tape but it’s not easy
 

Grendel

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,772
Brighton Sky Blue said:
FAO Astute:

Smoking probably puts you at greater risk of coronavirus, not less
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I think as he’s in the world epicentre he’s internet has been removed
 

Skybluefaz

Well-Known Member
  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,773
Brighton Sky Blue said:
FAO Astute:

Smoking probably puts you at greater risk of coronavirus, not less
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You'd be better off posting it on the Sunderland forum if you want to reach him
 
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shmmeee

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,774
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Yup and in the missus’ case means she’ll get several hundred essays written with no word or time limit. Trying to use Dom’s Positive Thinking mix tape but it’s not easy
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May as well get the kids to Mark it at home as well from the sounds of that. Is that internal? I switched off from examination talk once they told me I wouldn’t get paid this year.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,775
shmmeee said:
May as well get the kids to Mark it at home as well from the sounds of that. Is that internal? I switched off from examination talk once they told me I wouldn’t get paid this year.
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Yep but because we still have to write reports student marked papers would be pointless. At least in my case some of the answers can be auto marked
 

Grendel

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,776
Skybluefaz said:
You'd be better off posting it on the Sunderland forum if you want to reach him
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So I see - Astute can irony - and is closing on a thousand posts on there

Wrong Assumption
 

shmmeee

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,777
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Yep but because we still have to write reports student marked papers would be pointless. At least in my case some of the answers can be auto marked
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I was being facetious about the marking, isn’t that basically a honour system though? Hard to imagine the parents I know that produce near professional quality homework for their kids not at least hovering and giving help if not outright taking the tests for them.
 

shmmeee

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,778
No10 backtracks on hopes of ‘air bridge’ to help British holiday-makers avoid quarantine

What a shambles this government is.
 

Ian1779

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,779
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Yup and in the missus’ case means she’ll get several hundred essays written with no word or time limit. Trying to use Dom’s Positive Thinking mix tape but it’s not easy
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Sounds madness. No way to check if the work is theirs and so any grading is unusable - feel for the both of you.
 

Marty

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,780
Skybluefaz said:
Bloody lazy bastard teachers.
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Overpaid baby sitters iirc.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,781
shmmeee said:
No10 backtracks on hopes of ‘air bridge’ to help British holiday-makers avoid quarantine

What a shambles this government is.
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Greece has hardly any cases and they have offered to waive quarantine for us despite us being the worst in Europe. Naturally the government would like to reject some free PR bonus
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,782
Ian1779 said:
Sounds madness. No way to check if the work is theirs and so any grading is unusable - feel for the both of you.
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The ultimate madness is that my missus is getting one of her remote lessons observed tomorrow morning
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,783
shmmeee said:
I was being facetious about the marking, isn’t that basically a honour system though? Hard to imagine the parents I know that produce near professional quality homework for their kids not at least hovering and giving help if not outright taking the tests for them.
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It’s about trying to appear fully functional
 
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Ian1779

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,784
Brighton Sky Blue said:
The ultimate madness is that my missus is getting one of her remote lessons observed tomorrow morning
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Is she a NQT - if not that sounds like a really shit school.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,785
Ian1779 said:
Is she a NQT - if not that sounds like a really shit school.
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No she’s been teaching one year longer than I have.
 

SkyBlueDom26

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,786
Ring Of Steel said:
That’s the first thing you’ve got right in months
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Haha pipe down you muppet
 

shmmeee

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,787
Brighton Sky Blue said:
The ultimate madness is that my missus is getting one of her remote lessons observed tomorrow morning
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Fuck off! Really?

Send her the best of luck.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,788
shmmeee said:
Fuck off! Really?

Send her the best of luck.
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It’s insane and she gets anxious at the best of times so it’s sent that into overdrive. She did nearly break the screen yesterday when the dude said ‘some people have been working throughout this you know’
 

fernandopartridge

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,789
David O'Day said:
Seems that both Labour and Conservative councils are saying they won't open schools on the 1st of June

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Surely we're at the point that there is no confidence in this government

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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,790
fernandopartridge said:
Surely we're at the point that there is no confidence in this government

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Their own scientific advisers seem to be distancing themselves (pardon the pun)
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,791
Brighton Sky Blue said:
The ultimate madness is that my missus is getting one of her remote lessons observed tomorrow morning
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I don’t mind the observation and support even with my union hat on but I do mind judgement or pressure. Especially when it’s not clear what the observation is for or even worse when it’s clear what it’s for and then it’s used to do something else
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,792
Brighton Sky Blue said:
It’s insane and she gets anxious at the best of times so it’s sent that into overdrive. She did nearly break the screen yesterday when the dude said ‘some people have been working throughout this you know’
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He’s a wanker she knows that
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,793
shmmeee said:
No10 backtracks on hopes of ‘air bridge’ to help British holiday-makers avoid quarantine

What a shambles this government is.
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Apparently only Hot Air Bridges are official policy.
 
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skybluetony176

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,794
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Their own scientific advisers seem to be distancing themselves (pardon the pun)
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With yesterday’s briefing and now this I’m getting the impression that the scientists are positioning to throw the government under the bus before the government throws them under. They’ve probably realised by watching Starmer dismantle Boris this government of poor man’s Diane Abbott’s are easily hung out to dry by simply stating facts.
 

Skybluefaz

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,795
skybluetony176 said:
With yesterday’s briefing and now this I’m getting the impression that the scientists are positioning to throw the government under the bus before the government throws them under. They’ve probably realised by watching Starmer forensically dismantle Boris this government of poor man’s Diane Abbott’s are easily hung out to dry by simply stating facts.
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Corrected for you
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,796
Sky Blue Pete said:
He’s a wanker she knows that
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She called him a c**t but wanker will do
 

jimmyhillsfanclub

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,797
The University issue is gonna really hit hard...

..If I was enrolled, there is no way i'd pay the full £9K for an online course.......may as well go to the Open University who are cheaper and have been doing it well for years.

Taking the long term view, I suppose it can be seen as an opportunity to fix the broken HE model..... but its gonna get messy
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,798
Sky Blue Pete said:
I don’t mind the observation and support even with my union hat on but I do mind judgement or pressure. Especially when it’s not clear what the observation is for or even worse when it’s clear what it’s for and then it’s used to do something else
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I would mind it less if

a) We were remote teaching as a form of experiment and not in a pandemic

b) It was to see different ways of remote teaching being delivered instead of to scrutinise the teacher (as has been implied)

c) The school wasn’t throwing out all kinds of excuses for kids who aren’t doing any work or showing up to remote lessons

Observations are a normal part of this job though they can be and are used in a malicious way sometimes. Under these circumstances they shouldn’t be happening at all unless voluntary.
 
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skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,799
The Liverpool Echo is reporting that our “leader” is missing PMQ today.
Boris Johnson to miss PMQs again as public raise questions
 

Ian1779

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  • May 20, 2020
  • #23,800
fernandopartridge said:
Surely we're at the point that there is no confidence in this government

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Expect someone to start wheeling out some Brexit talk to deflect this.
 
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