PRAISE TO THE GREAT RON
Off to Nuova Lazio High in 10 minutes. I'm understudying our departing UnterFuhrer so I can be ready in 2 weeks to take over the onerous duties of relief setting.
To the non-teachers out there, one of the peculiarities of the teaching profession is this business needing to have a trained or semi-trained (or sometimes a warm body)person to take over the running of a class, and to be responsible for that class's learning and teaching if the normal teacher is off sick or on a course.
A great fear in a school is having a class sitting in a room without a teacher, or even worse, having a horde of unsupervised kids running around the corridors.
What most people and parents don't realise that many of these relief teachers are completely unqualified, and simply employed by the school to "baby-sit" the class.
Anyway must be off.
Have a nice day.
Sell alcohol in the tuck shop. That should settle them.
ReplyDeleteRichard once arranged for me to do a day relief teaching at Taita. It paid well but it was an eye opener ....
ReplyDeleteSorry TWG, you're showing your age a bit. We don't have "tuck shops" anymore.
ReplyDeleteWe have "Health conscious, environmentally appreciative nutrition outlets". It's why many of our kids nip out of school to buy pies from the local dairy.
If you mention Tuck to the kids, they'll think either of Robin Hood et al, or hit you because they'll think you've just sworn at them.
"Richard once arranged for me to do a day relief teaching at Taita. It paid well but it was an eye opener "
ReplyDeleteNuova Lazio is a much better school than Taita, and to be fair, doing relief teaching is the worst job, as you don't really know the kids, and they don't know or respect you.