Other fun school facts, the last time I angrily tweeted about them they started monitoring my Twitter and I was advised by my drama teacher to delete it it before they “properly kicked off about it”
Is your school run by a toddler?
nope, a Welsh man-child who doesn’t get on with any human beings and doesn’t get that we know when he’s telling straight-up lies to people
School got rid of study leave without bothering to consult us or anything and all the teachers are pissed about it and tons of people are faking doctor’s notes so they can go home and revise in periods where they just have no lessons and somehow the head(s) haven’t cottoned on to the fact that people are super pissed.
Today David Miliband visited and the pseudo-prefects that are only doing it because it looks good on their CV (and whose duties extend to not letting people through doors at lunch even though the DOORS ARE THERE FOR US TO GO THROUGH TO GET TO THE LOOS) were chosen to “represent” us and my little brother (who worked super hard to get elected as a student councillor and is really political and interested in politics) was told he couldn’t even talk to him.
The heads’ have also decided that the best way to motivate us through our exams is to put inspirational posters with stuff like “YOU CAN DO IT” and “only THREE WEEKS LEFT”. As well as being totally un-motivational and tacky, they only focus on the maths exam, which makes it seem like all the other subjects are inferior and less worthy of our time.
On a similair note, the school have invested in several large screens that show a constant slide show of all the people who’ve gotten a C or above in English or Maths and all the people who are ALMOST THERE WITH A C. For pupils who aren’t achieving that highly it’s unpleasant and unfair. It also puts those who have achieved on a pedestal.
The head has also brought in a policy of forcing people who are taking additional maths (having finished/ gotten an A in the exam) into tutoring students on the “D-C borderline”. As much as the heads like to say this is being done out of the goodness of their hearts, the £5 vouchers they get for an hour of tutoring also help. Again, it elevates the high achievers, isolates the mid level people like me and undermines the work of the maths teachers. Not to mention it’s highly immoral - it’s bribery for christ’s sake.
Another neat idea they’ve had is giving badges to people who have a C or above in English or Maths. Badges. We aren’t 7 years old. You are yet again elevating people and creating a divide. The head walked up to a girl in my year and asked her what she thought of them, she sais she thought they were an awful idea and he said “tough” and walked off. Byron Parker, man of the people.
The same headteacher also can’t talk to humans and has a habit of slapping people in the face as a greeting. The teachers enjoy moaning about him as much as we do. A fair few have quit on terms that are far from amicable.
free two hours in a computer room, we’re doing year 7 computer room things like play The Worlds Hardest Game. We’re also listening to Lionel Richie and Rustie. TWO WHOLE HOURS OF THIS
Frequently brilliant L.A. noise-rock crew HEALTH have scored the new Max Payne game and “TEARS” right here is the lead single from it. And it’s really, really good.
Slow-motion violence on rain-slicked streets? Yep, that’s what that sounds like.
Can I now admit to all the times I’ve listened to HEALTH while pretending I’m running in slow motion on the way home from school?
are you wearing janoskis?
haaaa, no, they’re like plain Nikes, like between Janoskis and a plimsoll kinda
Helped out with the year 7 and 8 book club after school today and it was fab because my English teacher called me sir and we had a right moan about the Gatsby film while the kids dicked about on Macs.
Oh and I had some full-on hush-hush conversations about the school bribing students. Are other people this friendly with their teachers? With some of mine it’s pretty mad amounts of informality.
