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One thing is for sure that when all this is over there are going to be many books and studies of how people coped during this period of lockdown as they sought to avoid getting the Coronavirus.
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https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1230634136102064128
Working from home not much of an issue, the lockdown elsewhere in Europe is affecting us more as a company right now.
In the context, ought that not to read ...”This is surprising” ?
Though, give so many of us have little else to do other than Netflix and our backlog of books, it is, of course, not.
And they are English, not History teachers.
Other than her brief reintroduction of ‘frit’ to common usage, and an extremely simple example of a rhetorical triplet, did she have any great influence on the language ?
(In my own case, FWIW, none.)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00924-6
... Dever is one of many scientists sidelined by the coronavirus pandemic, watching from afar as precious field data disappear and instruments degrade. The scientific pause could imperil weather forecasts in the near term, and threaten long-standing climate studies. In some cases, researchers are expecting gaps in data that have been collected regularly for decades. “The break in the scientific record is probably unprecedented,” says Frank Davis, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Davis is the executive director of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) programme, a network of 30 ecological sites stretching from the far north of Alaska all the way down to Antarctica. Consisting of both urban and rural locations, the LTER network allows scientists to study ecological processes over decades — from the impact of dwindling snowfalls on the mountains of Colorado to the effects of pollution in a Baltimore stream. At some sites, this might be the first interruption in more than 40 years, he says. “That’s painful for the scientists involved.”...
Also, if @ydoethur surmises correctly, many of us would be practising on ourselves...
The Government have just regulated away credit cards. They may only be one or two bad headlines on "trying to profit from Covid-19" before further restrictions are put in place.
Why take the risk?
Family contact us somewhat more...... are the grandparents OK?
And, because the gym is closed Mrs C and I walk more, and, of course she doesn't browse the shops.
The centre of our small town is eerily quiet; only the pharmacy and the convenience store cum post office open, and no-one hanging about the pubs.
As far as I'm aware anyone who does a degree (not necessarily the same subject) and then a 1-2 PGCE qualification is eligible.
So you can be teaching at 22-23 years old knowing remarkably little.
(If anyone wants to feel old this morning
‘Now I can believe I’m alive.’
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-joy-of-hearing-my-father-s-voice-again
And every morning I take my temperature to guard against the dreaded lurgy. It is invariably in the low 36s, which might explain why I cannot work on a hot summer's day or could be mere coincidence.
Has this been done? I’ll get my coat.
However, it is also true to say that this intensely specialises knowledge. In the particular case of these English teachers, they probably teach nothing after about 1970. So they would need to understand the 60s, and Vietnam, and the Wolfe report, etc, but nothing about Thatcher.
I’m as bad. I can teach about Khrushchev, or Macmillan, but show me a picture of Konrad Adenauer and I am sadly puzzled as to who it is. Even once I identify him, all I could tell you is he was a former mayor of Cologne and Chancellor of West Germany in the 1950s.
One of them would certainly not have been allowed to teach today as he had twice had very public affairs with fifth form students.
Wake up, do exercises, spend an hour doing Hungarian translation exercises, do chores as instructed by higher powers, lunch, spend time in the garden or write, go for a walk, dinner, talk, listen to music or watch TV. Spending more time online is fitted in throughout this.
Time moves on and all titans of their age look like Ozymandus in the dust to later generations.
Once, when they were at our house, she expressed surprise to see a history book that I was reading. In the discussion that followed, it became quite clear that the thought that someone may want to read about and learn something out of choice had never even occurred to her.
I remember saying to my wife that she hadn't displayed the qualities that I would necessarily be looking for when choosing someone to educate my children.
On topic, I suspect there might be some Karma involved, but after having a break from work last year, the roles have now been reversed in comparison with most of my friends, and whilst they are all sitting at home doing the various things listed in the survey, I am working all hours. Running a finance department, our general workload hasn't decreased, but there are a lot of additional things like sorting out furloughed staff, and reporting to owners etc. Talking to others in my position, this is happening a lot. This weekend, I will be making sure I have everything required to claim under the Job Retention Scheme next Monday (we currently don't know much about the process so have to be prepared for all eventualities).
Compared to my friends, they have the benefit of getting paid whilst not working, which I wasn't last year, but on the other hand I could go out whenever I wanted. I think I prefer it my way.
I don't mind the work, and I'm being paid well for it, but there are a lot of admin staff who don't get paid a huge amount, and are under massive pressure at the moment, working from home, covering other peoples jobs, making sure that wheels keep turning.
https://twitter.com/theipaper/status/1251035161644408832
These days, and I think this is one of the reasons for grade inflation, besides dumbing down, students are far more likely to be taught about Cornell notes, active recall, spaced repetition and so on, all of which is over a hundred years old.
Also, whilst people are slowly going mad in lockdown (some of us faster than others...), are we really wanting to rush headlong back to the status quo ante which for so many was so bad in a different way. I hope that lockdown will have shown people that community is something worth embracing, that work to live (often in a rabbit hutch home bought for transport links to take you elsewhere) isn't working, that "I want someone to bring it to me NOW" isn't sensible, and that all the clean air we've been enjoying thanks to lack of traffic is a precious commidity.
Lockdown has been a horrible imposition. Lets take the positives out of it and change society for the better.
Was just rereading that yesterday, actually.
I'm doing less travelling, which is a godsend, but not only am I working from home, where my job involves looking at unusual financial transactions, and everything these days looks like a massive unusual transaction, I've also taken on a second job as a teacher.
I'm really missing sports, which are a strong part of my life, gambling on it, and going to cinema.
Meanwhile I am watching more opera/theatre on You Tube, listening to lots of the BBC radio archive, walking more, knitting more, playing ping pong and learning about lambing just by watching what is going on in the fields around me. Plus lots of planning the decoration of my home and garden when I do finally manage to move in. TBH I do not have any problem filling my days even if much of the time is simply spent staring at views and sitting in the sun.
It will be when I am still here on a dark, cold, rainy January day in the 9th month of lockdown that patience may snap.......
They could engrave the "no such thing as society" speech at the bottom as well just to be helpful.
https://www.wired.com/story/indias-frightening-descent-social-media-terror/
Thus is just more partisan rubbish from you I'm afraid. Because you don't like her and want to be down with da kidz.
Makes all the complaints about British record-keeping look absurd in comparison.
The article says Timothy expects a new wave of Catholic faith schools once the cap is lifted. What he will get is a new wave of Muslim faith schools. They have the numbers and the money. Segregated education: what could go wrong?
I'm working harder than I ever have before during this - I'm up at 5am and in bed by 11pm and either working or looking after my child the whole time in between (she is currently distracted by Milkshake).
My wife is the same.
Nothing is as good or as bad as it first appears.
I think most would benefit from 4-5 years in industry first before teaching.
It used to be something some did right at the very end of their careers - such as retired military officers.
Two things of incidental interest are that you can see Mould and his behind-the-camera son getting better from video to video, and that the whole thing is shot on an iphone.
Evenings and weekends in the garden, and plenty of time to stare into space. Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits, as one famous philosopher put it.
I miss the footy, but apart from that not too keen to turn back the clocks. Indeed I may well go part time shortly after it is all over.
I also see a fair number of late teens and early twenties out with their parents, that would never happen in pre virus times. Which is nice.
For myself I spend most of my time working, pretty much as normal.
I've been around them a lot, seen up close what it involves and am friends with and socialised with many.
And that I think is why these English teachers, who will probably also have larger classes than me (their subject isn’t optional) will know very little beyond the immediate bounds of what they teach.
Talked it through with our FD yesterday afternoon, and he pointed out that he's already walked away from everything he'd owned when his marriage broke up. Yes he's gone back and collected stuff since but a fair bit has been sold / stored as it didn't really matter...
As well as my own Lego collection I've been rebuilding the kids long smashed & boxed sets. So a few toys are worth having. I have a strange MiniDisc fetish where having been an early adopter and then gave it all away I got back into it as a format a few years ago and now have more music recorded than ever. But music, films, books, internet - all of it can really be done via a laptop computer and a data connection.
So why the west's obsessive compulsion to acquire stuff? Mike's point the other day about 15 years of redundant phones, we're being played by industry to keep buying the latest shiny shiny, even accepting built in obsolescence (yes Apple I'm looking at you) to force us to buy the latest "new" which really isn't. With so much of this made in China, will this change post-Covid?
In summary I am doing more thinking during lockdown...
I don't think that a rigid rule of requiring potential teachers to do something different for a few years is at all helpful. People who were inclined to do the minimum necessary, or who lack a general inquisitiveness, will generally not be changed by the experience, and you've then lost some years (and possibly people) from those who would have been good teachers regardless.
Obviously if you dig deeper she remains a warning from history, which I guess is why Boris felt it necessary to put her down recently.
But there are more interesting, inspirational and important historical figures.