ANonymousTeacher

@JamesSlatman @ShakinthatChalk Having worked in 4 other professions previously, teaching is the only one requiring out of hours work unpaid every week, the only one that made me suicidal due to workload & burnout, the only one that I ended up losing 2 stone from not having time to eat. It’s unsustainable.

@ShakinthatChalk Tell him to go work in industry for the same equivalent salary once he moves up the pay scales and he’ll soon see what intensity is. The grass most certainly isn’t greener.

My very promising ECT can’t see a future in teaching. Says it’s just too intense. What’s the point of it all if we can’t keep staff? It wasn’t like this when I entered teaching. What a complete mess we’ve made of teaching and it’s the children left to suffer the consequences.

@stephenheppell @ShakinthatChalk Yes! Being micro managed by SLT who can’t do our jobs is so awful. No freedom to actually do the creative engaging lessons we used to plan a decade ago because now every class has to use a certain scheme (dull and dry, then we get told off when the kids aren’t inspired).

@ShakinthatChalk Yes. Somehow we swapped creativity, ingenuity and passion for robotic compliance. Teachers didn’t enter teaching to conform to rigid compliance. A bonfire of quangos killed creativity. Now instead we need a bonfire of the compliance agencies: Ofsted et al.

@ShakinthatChalk @ValerieElson @CatScutt @educationgovuk I wish we could do that now. I’m literally torn between quitting to work part time in an office so I can do a Masters, or just quitting altogether to have a work-life balance. I have never been allowed to choose my own CPD course & in my current school only get 1 CPD day a yr!

@ValerieElson @CatScutt @educationgovuk Wow!

I’m very pleased to have been asked to be part of @educationgovuk’s NPQ review group. I’m looking forward to representing the views of teachers and leaders and helping to continuously improve the teacher CPD landscape.

@Hardley76 @darrellmaclaine No it isn’t. Children who are educated properly still love books. The problem is the way publishing houses push crap celebs as ‘authors’ and paying millions to them for absolute trash. David Walliams are genuinely racist & sexist yet his books are promoted over REAL good writers.

@darrellmaclaine It’s smartphones and tablets. Stop them using smartphones and tablets. Their concentration has been destroyed.

@BarneyAllen @darrellmaclaine My local charity shop is full of David Walliams trash. I wish they were pulped instead. Famous non-author books line all the Supermarket shelves, it’s so frustrating. Well done for buying your daughter The Hunger Games! May real books be ever in her favour!

@NonymousTeacher @darrellmaclaine My daughter won a school prize in Year 6. The prize was a David Walliams book. My daughter was already reading The Hunger Games by then so it went to the charity shop unread. She’s nearly 16 now and still an avid reader.

This was my favourite part.

Trust women when we say we don't want men in our sports, locker rooms, prisons, etc

Heart attacks in people under 40 have risen 66% since the beginning of the C0VlD pandemic. C0VlD is a vascular disease. buff.ly/3XSAtM3

Remember the man who won an Olympic gold medal in women’s boxing? His medical reports show he has XY chromosomes, male testosterone levels, testicles, & a micropenis. But that never mattered—they believe that words & feelings make you woman, not biology. reduxx.info/algerian-boxer…

@WhistleblowingT You clearly don’t work in primary. We have to print&trim work every day, get resources out of cupboards that are the other end of school, put the chairs and books out for pupils, change the visual timetable and date, set up the lunch menu for kids to see what they can choose etc

@sewistwrites You’re bang on the money. Before they became ‘famous’ I knew one of the ‘founders of gentle parenting’. They started a pyramid scheme & got angry when I called it out as such & refused to pay to join. The women who did pay all regretted it. It’s a ruse that has made millions.

@Ninawildflower Wow, sounds just like my Head, who told me multiple stars were allowed to work while Covid positive, but the rest of us weren’t told so we all caught it multiple times. Disgusting behaviour.

My children have a new Headteacher. In attendance assembly today, he told the children that he has now had 8 Covid infections. My children told me that he said this “rather gleefully”🧵1/4

@dustychipura Having adequate notice of meetings and what content they will be about. I get incredibly thrown, I would even say traumatised, when SLT pulls me into an office for a ‘quick chat’ and it turns out to be something else entirely. I can’t respond without preparation time.

Good morning! I'm putting some final touches on a talk i'm giving this week on neurodivergence in the workplace. Lots to say here, obvs...but if there was ONE THING that could make your workplace/ could have made your workplace more accessible for you as an ND person, what is it?

@PeepsReferendum @Jo_WhiteheadUK @SheltonJoh3872 This is the dictionary definition of brainwashing. I’m sorry you’ve been sucked in. It’s a shame your education failed to teach you critical thinking skills. Sadly, the only people rioting & being racist are those with low IQ. The cleverest towns had no riots & voted remain!

Interview with a women on #C4News who’s concerned because her son can’t get a council house but Asylum seekers get homes etc. it’s pointed out Asylum seekers can’t apply for council housing. Her response ‘I didn’t know that’ - thats the problem! Media & Gov must educate!!

@beazeley @MRA_RQT @Grammarsaurus1 Can you please share an example or explain how it would help? Thanks

@MRA_RQT The @Grammarsaurus1 ‘Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar’ would help you with that

@Fudds13 @PSSDNetwork Interested in this, do you know of any studies confirming this? Thanks

@PSSDNetwork The prescription of anti acne drugs also needs reviewing. It risks developmental issues including cognition, sexual function and growth (height) if given during adolescence.

"This sacred part of the human experience has been stolen from me." Some children will never develop normal sexual function because of antidepressants they were given at a young age. Both parents and children are not given informed consent about #PSSD.

@MacPsy @sappholives83 Is that what it is? It always seems to be envy of their wife, so many photos of married men ‘becoming’ the exact image of their wives.

@sappholives83 I agree that much more research is needed into the profound and powerful psychological issues driving this movement, especially amongst sexual offenders. It is a consuming desire, formerly deadly secret, now out in the open, for the lost mother's body.

(Fair warning: this is a long one, even for me.) For anyone who doesn’t know, I’m a law enforcement officer with experience investigating both homicides and sex crimes. When I was a rookie in 2007, there was a clear understanding that crossdressing men in women’s spaces were often there for sexual reasons, and that if we were called to deal with one, he was to be trespassed from the premises if the owner/manager requested it (meaning criminal charges would be filed if he returned), and any women who were in the bathroom with him would be questioned to make sure they hadn’t been harassed or assaulted. After that, assuming no one had been assaulted and wanted to press charges, he would be released with a verbal warning to stay out of women’s bathrooms. When I started working sex crimes in 2015, it was still understood that crossdressers did it for sexual reasons, and common knowledge that transvestitic fetishism is often found in men who display other predatory sexual behaviors. (I would also estimate that roughly 50% of the hard drives containing child sexual abuse material that I had to go through in my time there also contained images or video of the hard drive’s (male) owner dressed in women’s or adult-sized toddler/infant clothing of some kind.) By the time I made Homicide in 2017, you could hear the first rumblings of the impending eruption of narcissism and delusion, if you were paying close attention. I wasn’t, but you know what they say about hindsight being 20/20. Between 2016 and 2018, I went to multiple law enforcement seminars and training events related to sexually motivated homicide, and from 2018-2020, I took classes in abnormal psych through a program my department has established with a local university. At the seminars and training events, if speakers or instructors discussed killers like BTK or Col. Russell Williams (both of whom were crossdressers), they would discuss the rest of the subject’s psychology and case file in depth, but skirt around the issue of their TF with a deliberately casual, deliberately brief comment not designed to invite further questions. When I tried to ask questions about the relationship between a killer’s TF and their crimes anyway (not out of TERFery; at the time, I knew basically nothing about the tactics or goals of the trans rights movement; I was interested only out of professional curiosity) I was either ignored or given the beginning of an answer that sometimes started out strong, but by the end of the reply had inevitably gone off the rails. No answer I was ever given had any real relationship to my actual questions. There was a very obvious reluctance to go beyond recounting the bones of this part of these particular cases, and very little discussion of the part TF played in the motive or the psychology of the killers, a reluctance that was especially obvious when discussing crimes with a clear sexual aspect. Certainly no instructor ever tried to draw a link between a suspect’s TF and elements of the crime. It was frustrating, but I chalked it up to personal feelings on the part of the speakers and instructors, who had clearly been uncomfortable discussing the subject - something I didn’t then understand, and which puzzled me. The link between TF and sexually inappropriate and/or predatory behavior has never been a secret in law enforcement circles, and it seemed odd for them to be so reluctant to discuss what was basically common knowledge. In my first abnormal sexual psych class, it was worse. Any time the subject came up, the professor would say something like “this is what we used to think, but recent studies have proven that TW are no threat to other women and that TF/AGP doesn’t exist/affects natal women also.” (He went back and forth on that one).

@stargazing90 Are you swabbing the throat as well as nose for the Covid test?

So kid still neg. Sx’s sinus congestion, headache, fever at night(gone now), dry cough, scratchy throat. Now, here’s my ?..he can’t smell anything, he can only taste certain things. Like salt on a pb cracker..literally can’t taste the rest of it. weird shit like that. Covid?

Men kill women because they believe inherently that they deserve their unconditional love and attention, that a woman does not have the right to reject them or their advances, that women are in some way lesser than them. They dehumanise women and so it is easy for them to kill them for 'hurting their feelings'. These men have not learnt emotional regulation, of being able to look after themselves, of seeing women as individuals, not learnt to value women's right to their emotions or their bodies. They are normal men, not some kind of evil monsters. That is the problem, don't you see. Some days I feel too tired.