Number One - When picking the school of choice for your precious child, ignore league tables, assessment results, exam grades etc etc - Instead do this - Go into the office of your shortlisted educational establishments, ask the finance office which member of administrative staff s/he trusts to provide the statistical data from their registers, then go to this person and ask them this - Can the teaching staff at that school/college/university/playgroup fill in a register? Do they provide the right codes? Can they remember to SIGN it? How many post it notes do they use on average per day providing gentle reminders on how to fill in what is basically a Q&A? If at any point during this conversation the administrative staff say anything like the following; 'well, as teaching staff they think they have more important things to do than worry about this', then RUN AWAY, THIS IS NOT THE SCHOOL FOR YOUR CHILD.
Number Two - If the administrative staff of any educational establishment do not get the information they need then they cannot record it correctly, if they don't record it correctly, the establishments statistics will be incorrect, if they are incorrect, then targets will not be achieved, if targets are not achieved then funding is lost and do not underestimate that every single target will affect your funding in some way, if the funding goes down, standards go down, if standards go down, students will not attend and once the student numbers go down funding falls further and then cuts will be made and those cuts will be first and foremost the teaching staff because there will already be a skeletal administrative staff. DO THE FUCKING MATHS PEOPLE, we're all in it together, so FILL IT IN PROPERLY.
Number Three - Why must people smoke next to open windows?
Number Four - Think I might get highlights...
Number Five - mmmmmm....... Christian Bale......
Number Five - OHMYGODHOWHARDISITTOFILLINTHESTARTANDENDTIMESOFACLASS?
Number Five - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand prozac.
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Ah now if only FE colleges worked in the same technically progressive way as Catholic High Schools (and if they only had half the budget) my world would be a better place.
We are not installing an OMR or OCR system because of all the problems that come with those. OMR scanners can't read pink for example.
Your absence statistics are probably provided by a central reporting system which makes single event registers just as relevant as multi event ones.
And yes, teaching does include filling in forms, I direct your attention to point number two - You can't pick and choose the bits of a job you like better than others, you have to do them all. Co-operation makes everyones lives easier.
Seriously, I've been having this argument with heads of dept/faculty for two weeks now, don't test me.
Bitch fight, bitch fight. Go for it ladies.
must... locate... peanut... m&m's...
(my god woman, how fast can you type?)
Lovin' your work though x
(and Glenn, I know that's you and we are not having a bitch fight it is a heated debate)
miaow...
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