Ever tried making parts for aeroplanes? I'm sure you can imagine the presicion of what we do and the admittedly necessary scrutiny we come under. The health services, the social services? Keep calm and hope for a Marco miracle
L At least the 50 marks from the grammar paper are added on. If it was spelling alone, very few kids across the country will have passed.
Whilst we're on the subject of schools, my school up here in Scotland was used for the last 3 series of Waterloo Road.
Yeah, she thinks she aced the grammar paper and probably will have done. Aside from the direct consequences it's the missed life lesson that winds me up - you try and reinforce the message that if something doesn't come naturally then you have to try even harder to make a success of it. She bought into that and really wanted to do well both for her and for us, but was just bemused by what the test ended up as. And kids who are naturally better at spelling but did no preparation will have done better than less gifted ones who tried bloody hard. Which is a life lesson in itself, but not one I wanted her to be learning just yet...
I had a teacher in the late 70's who was really into Souxsie and the Banshees, all we had to do was start an argument on which was the best track on the album Scream and we didn't have to do any work.
TESTING children at school is the only way to prepare them for constant, arbitrary judgement as adults, it has been claimed. After parents protested against SATs tests, supporters of exams said they were necessary to introduce children to the concept of stupid people deciding their worth. A government spokesman said: “Tests help children understand they will be judged in life for essentially meaningless things, such as whether they own a car or have nice hair. “By subjecting children to endless tests we’re toughening them up for a world where people will write you off as a pointless individual for not liking sport. “Being criticised for failing to identify the odd one out from a series of shapes is also good preparation for being bollocked by your boss over pointless tasks.” Parent Tom Logan said: “At some point kids have to learn life is all about fitting in with the prejudices of shallow, judgmental idiots. “I don’t want my son to reach his teens and discover girls won’t even consider going out with him because he’s wearing slightly the wrong type of trousers.” Six-year-old Stephen Malley said: “Tests make me scared, but at least I won’t be surprised in the future when someone thinks I’m a worthless piece of **** for renting instead of buying.” http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...stantly-being-judged-by-idiots-20160504108541
We used to smoke in class sometimes as well. Mainly when some idiot was larking around with a Bunsen Burner.
I do agree about the writing you off if you don't like sport bit. A number of times I've had to go out with the mrs and some woman from her work and her husband. When they don't like sport it's a ****ing long night. In fact the last time it happened I think I said that out loud to them
We had a lad start about 15 years ago. What team do you support? "Don't really do football" What music you into? "Don't really do music" What do you like to do? "I grow & look after my bonsai orchard" No surprise that he turned out to be a proper ****.
I bought a bonsai tree once. Killed it in a week. Stunted, little spiky bastard that it was. There's £7.99 I'll never see again.
Not bonsai related but we bought 2 Venus fly traps. I must have bought vegetarian ones as the useless ****ing things didn't catch a fly between them all summer.
I watched Flight of the Phoenix the other day. Piss easy so long as you have Jimmy Stewart flying the thing.