NickI have been invited to attend a “parent information evening” about the school’s “revised pastoral structure and in particular the strengthening of our current House system”.
What the fuckin’ Hell does that mean, in relation to me getting out of bed?
Write it down and send me an email FFS, stop inviting every parent in the world to a fucking meeting during working hours.
I have a million things on my plate right now and the inability of a deputy head teacher to write a letter is pretty low on the list of priorities.
I have once again given myself a Vatican Broadside earworm.
Half Man Half Biscuit - Vatican Broadside [Official Audio]
Some teachers think all information must be communicated by someone standing at the front of a room and droning on for an hour.
Brad Macpherson@Nickiquote I was an especially big fan* of Uni lecturers who would prepare slides for a lecture consisting of their lecture, which they would then read out. No diagrams or anything, just a wall of text that they could have emailed us and saved us the bother of dragging arse halfway across Perth to sit there and fight for oxygen while the twat at the front of the room droned on and refused to take questions.
* No, I really fucking wasn't.
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And yes, the worst example was the AI lecturer - this was 1998, the field was genuinely interesting and I considered going further into it until I encountered stunted fuckwits like him.
Genuinely, shit you not, it was all neural networks and fuzzy logic and expert systems going to change the world.
Ended up going back to my job in mainframe operations and didn't look back.
HollieK@Nickiquote They've changed the House names and colours, and now you have to buy a blazer with the right House colour embroidered on the cuffs and collar, instead of either a House tie or a sew-on badge.
@HollieK72 Oh Christ, this sounds probable.
@Nickiquote It's what happened at my kids' high school - although I think my son was in his last year and didn't need to buy one of the special new blazers. The local school uniform shop manager was going nuts, because she had to buy 4 times as many blazers than previously.
@HollieK72 oh ffs.
@Nickiquote Exactly! Hopefully it's not as bad as all that.
Neo Ehproque@Nickiquote look, it's not for you, it's for stay at home mums; it's not fair to deprive them of hour long meeting-that could have-been-an-emails
DJDarren@Nickiquote A masterpiece.
Verđandi K Soldusty@Nickiquote
Your plate must be the size of a small tectonic plate by now to hold that many things.
Your plate must be the size of a small tectonic plate by now to hold that many things.
David Cohen@Nickiquote Working hours? They normally do this fuckery in the early evening at least (which is not much better, I’ll admit). But agree, write it down. They teach you to do that at school, from what I recall.
jamesb (MW1CGG)@Nickiquote It means they've cut a load of staff and are restructuring to save money.
Spytfyre 
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Putting out to pasture
Sent to live on a farm
Shot. In other words. Word. Singular. Simple.
Not clear if this is the teachers or children
Houses equals rivalry and should not be part of education
Or Romeo and Juliet and we all know how that shit went downhill fast
Don't go.
Or if you do
• make yourself so noisy they are forced to ask you to leave.
•Don't leave until physically removed
•Sue for harassment and mental damage
You won't be asked back
Stephen Darlington@Nickiquote If it’s anything like my kids school, they also schedule things at the absolute worst times.
@sdarlington Yes, after school finishes but during working hours for the rest of us.
@Nickiquote My pet peeve with school communications is “I hope you enjoyed your break” after school holidays. *I* didn’t get a break; I don’t have as many holidays as you. I was working *and* trying to stop the kids destroying the house and each other.
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Tyrone Slothrop@Nickiquote What’s this “houses” business?
Do your kids attend Hogwarts?
wall-e@Nickiquote is this the school equivalent of a bullshit work meeting after a restructuring where they proudly reveal the new org chart and everyone gets to clap for their department's new set of inept middle managers?
Stoneface Vimes@Nickiquote I think it means 'probably don't need to bother'.😉
Kim Possible 
@Nickiquote Good Lord, all this says is that your kid is being taught how to avoid speaking directly about any subject, and instead, couching it in vague, safe, inscrutable terminology.
Bob Thomson@Nickiquote I'm imagining them cosplaying giving a TED talk, with a headset and clicker for slides etc.
Schroedingers_Cat@Nickiquote It means "We are sacking some people, the ones who actually care about your kids, and we want to be able to say that you had every opportunity to make your representations to my arse".