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[bhsup]

I'm monolingual, but I'm neither proud or ashamed of it. I took six years of Spanish in junior high and high school, but have forgotten practically all of it because I just have no cause to use it at all where I live. Though in my defense, I never went up to either of my Spanish teachers and did the whole "in your face" thing.

Anyhoo, moving on to my question...
It's not really about YOU specifically, but just in general do you have to wear multiple hats over there? Such as being a sports coach for one of your squads, detention supervisor, etc?

 

[downtown]

Cool thread Truonian. I'll have some questions for you later.

From what I've read here the school seems to be a better one (or at least not a bad one). I guess it doesn't mane any sense to ask if you'v ever feared that somebody could attack you (either pupils or parents).

I had that fear. I actually did have a student attack me, and he ended up spending a few nights in kid jail for it.

 

[Flying Pig]

German maths is weird, they use a quarter circle containing a dot for right angles rather than a square.

So the compass mark for drawing 90 degrees - clearly I was born a German, because that makes a lot of sense to me.

 

[Truronian]

I'm monolingual, but I'm neither proud or ashamed of it. I took six years of Spanish in junior high and high school, but have forgotten practically all of it because I just have no cause to use it at all where I live. Though in my defense, I never went up to either of my Spanish teachers and did the whole "in your face" thing.

That's the same with me and French. I don't think people should be ashamed of being weak in a given field, different people have different skill sets and knowledge bases. What gets to me is the frequency with which people proclaim their ignorance in this country. It's got to the point where a major part of the job is working out whether or not a pupil is being genuine or trying to play up to peers when they claim not to understand something. Knowledge and desire to learn have a bad rep in the UK.

Anyhoo, moving on to my question...
It's not really about YOU specifically, but just in general do you have to wear multiple hats over there? Such as being a sports coach for one of your squads, detention supervisor, etc?

We are not required to wear any hats... Most of the sports coaching is done by the PE teachers, who have their own bespoke academy sports gear. When giving detentions I wear only a steely glare.

 

[Flying Pig]

We are not required to wear any hats... Most of the sports coaching is done by the PE teachers, who have their own bespoke academy sports gear. When giving detentions I wear only a steely glare.

He means taking on different roles - for example, where I used to work, the Head of English was also a subaltern in the CCF, as well as coaching the Rugby team, and so had slightly different personas to adopt for each.

 

[bhsup]

Hehe, yeah sorry. I didn't mean actual hats. American euphemism failure there I guess.

 

[Truronian]

OK, well now I feel silly. In my defense I've never heard that expression before.

Outside of maths teaching my duties include:

- Form tutoring
- Y11 mentoring
- GCSE Math drop in (Maths club for those with exams coming up)
- Breaktime duty
- Detentions
- Assorted odd-jobs like the aforementioned taster days.

 

[Catharsis]

When giving detentions I wear only a steely glare.

Only

 

[Truronian]

Only

Second offenses are at an all time low!