(Another) Teachers strike

[The-Golden-Vision]

They truly are appalling. I'd make a massive lime pit and throw anyone voting Tory in it.

Not long now until that slobbering old ****ing wreck Thatcher snuffs it. That's one tour of London I am looking forward to.

For someone who purports to hate right wingers you don't half talk like one lad.

 

[scratchnsurf]

they fail because they discover the drugs don't work.

They just make things worse.

 

[Clint Planet]

I was reading research the other day supporting the idea that the single biggest indicator of success in life is having ambition. No more, no less. Now tell me, how many teachers do you honestly know that sow that seed in the minds of their students?

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Hey, I could be naive, but for me you want teachers with spirit like Keating in Dead Poets, and right now I don't think we have enough like that.

And how exactly do you know we're all so uninspiring? So dreary and dead-eyed? What experience do you actually have in schools, Bruce?

Come and spend a week in my school. Watch me teach, watch my colleagues too. Witness the commitment and creativity; the professionalism and the willingness to give up their own time, unpaid to run clubs before and after school and even at lunchtimes. Ask the children what they think of their school and their teachers. Ask them if they feel valued and challenged and inspired. I guarantee you you'll walk out humbled and really rather embarrassed for spouting such presumptuous and insulting tommyrot.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

 

[Kurt.]

And how exactly do you know we're all so uninspiring? So dreary and dead-eyed? What experience do you actually have in schools, Bruce?

Come and spend a week in my school. Watch me teach, watch my colleagues too. Witness the commitment and creativity; the professionalism and the willingness to give up their own time, unpaid to run clubs before and after school and even at lunchtimes. Ask the children what they think of their school and their teachers. Ask them if they feel valued and challenged and inspired. I guarantee you you'll walk out humbled and really rather embarrassed for spouting such presumptuous and insulting tommyrot.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

* stands and applauds you *

 

[Bruce Wayne]

And how exactly do you know we're all so uninspiring? So dreary and dead-eyed? What experience do you actually have in schools, Bruce?

Come and spend a week in my school. Watch me teach, watch my colleagues too. Witness the commitment and creativity; the professionalism and the willingness to give up their own time, unpaid to run clubs before and after school and even at lunchtimes. Ask the children what they think of their school and their teachers. Ask them if they feel valued and challenged and inspired. I guarantee you you'll walk out humbled and really rather embarrassed for spouting such presumptuous and insulting tommyrot.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

I've worked in a couple, and of course was a student in several more. During that time I can count the number of inspirational teachers on no fingers (sadly).

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I know a couple of doctors and they don;t do 70 hours a week, the only ones that do do so out of choice due to the £300/hour overtime payments.

I don't know any nurses that work more than 12 hours a day for a sustained period.

Also drug trials have always taken then long to complete, are you really trying to say that's a recent development. It's to prevent a thalidomide from happening again.

It also takes that length of time to test the efficacy of the drugs in question. What's your alternative?!?! Some geezers get together and say 'hey let's mix that **** with that **** and it'll probably be good for something'?

Seriously, you say some weird things but complaining about the length of drug trials is probably the weirdest. That India produces clones is something that needs to be addressed (again, it doesn't happen nearly as much as you're trying to imply), but drug trials are the length they are for a very, very good reason.

Those that fail don't fail because of the fear of litigation, they fail because they discover the drugs don't work.

Must just be the ones I know then. Re drug trials. My comment was that drugs are getting ever more expensive, and that is down to the cost (and risk) of developing them, and the risk of cheaper clones coming along either when they're off patent or before.

Are you suggesting that drugs are neither very expensive or something we wouldn't benefit from them being cheaper? Healthcare is ballooning in price, even with a supposedely nationalised service not worried about profit, and with the demographics of the country you'd assume it'll only get pricier (old folks and new borns cost the most after all). So what's your answer?

 

[peteblue]

Must just be the ones I know then. Re drug trials. My comment was that drugs are getting ever more expensive, and that is down to the cost (and risk) of developing them, and the risk of cheaper clones coming along either when they're off patent or before.

Are you suggesting that drugs are neither very expensive or something we wouldn't benefit from them being cheaper? Healthcare is ballooning in price, even with a supposedely nationalised service not worried about profit, and with the demographics of the country you'd assume it'll only get pricier (old folks and new borns cost the most after all). So what's your answer?

If you look at the companies who provide services to the NHS you can see where the money goes. One company near me has just added another hi tech wing to it's brand new building and judging by the cars in the car park they are all doing very nicely.

 

[linglong]

I wouldnt be a teacher for all the tea in china simple as that.

Anyone mad enough to take that job on deserves respect in my view.

 

[Clint Planet]

I've worked in a couple.....

As what?

 

[Del]

As what?

Remember the janitor from Goodwill Hunting?

Well he was like that but sh1t at maths

 

[Bruce Wayne]

As what?

Did some network support as a youngster so sat in on a lot of lessons.

 

[Clint Planet]

Did some network support as a youngster so sat in on a lot of lessons.

Right.