The pupils haven't taken too keenly to the new headteacher and some of the staff haven't exactly helped with this. She's requested that we don't show the kids videos until the last day of term. Partly because we're a school not a cinema but also because there's only so many times a child can watch Shrek without starting to think that they're an ogre. And besides from my own experience of end of term videos you only really acquire a knowledge of the first hour of films. At one point I knew the first half of Austin Powers, There's Something About Mary and Dances with Wolves (History: we were doing about Plains Indians) off by heart without having ever seen the conclusions of said films.
Some teachers have passed this on to the kids and said that the head won't let them show videos, which personally I think is a cop out. When a kid asks if we can watch a video next lesson it's very tempting to blame someone else and make out that you'd love to let them run riot and destroy the classroom, and while we're at it who fancies some vodka? Some fags? Pills?... if only senior management would agree to it. Some staff are taking it too far and saying that we're not allowed to do anything remotely fun. Which isn't even what was said, and hey kids, maths is fun! Right?
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2007-12-18 @ 23:59