Of course it will. Increase their salary bands but not the budget. What do they expect to happen?
I used to get a box of supplies at the start of the school year.
2010: two sets of colouring pencils, three boxes of pritt sticks, four boxes of pencils, handwriting pens, individual whiteboard pens, some more scissors, my whiteboard pens (two sets), a set of writing on the paper pens and a set of rubbers and rulers for the class. No iPads, Fabergé eggs or pieces of ancient Egyptian body parts, just some basic shit. I thought it was great and I loved handing out the stuff and it actually helped shit get done.
2021: four pritt sticks, sixteen pencils.
No scissors? Borrow someone else’s. What, no one likes you? I will give you my gigantic garden shears teacher scissors then and just sit and hope you don’t cut your fingers off. By the end of the year the pens didn’t work, at all. I’d write on the board and it’d be completely invisible to anyone not sitting a metre away from the board. Not a single solitary whiteboard pen around. I refused to spend my own money on anything so I worked with what I had.
Got to the point that there was so little glue I’d open books by the spine and forty worksheets would fall out as only two children had a glue stick. No one said ‘why aren’t you sticking these sheets in?’ no one said ‘these books look like shit, what are you doing?’
If no one gives a flying fuck about these kids what’s the point?
Schools will fund this and the daily lives get worse and worse and no one will know about how dire the situation actually is in schools because unless you’re there, day by day, you know nothing. The education secretary knows nothing. The DfE know less about education than Gavin Williamson. There is no hope.
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Of course it will. Increase their salary bands but not the budget. What do they expect to happen?
I used to get a box of supplies at the start of the school year.
2010: two sets of colouring pencils, three boxes of pritt sticks, four boxes of pencils, handwriting pens, individual whiteboard pens, some more scissors, my whiteboard pens (two sets), a set of writing on the paper pens and a set of rubbers and rulers for the class. No iPads, Fabergé eggs or pieces of ancient Egyptian body parts, just some basic shit. I thought it was great and I loved handing out the stuff and it actually helped shit get done.
2021: four pritt sticks, sixteen pencils.
No scissors? Borrow someone else’s. What, no one likes you? I will give you my gigantic garden shears teacher scissors then and just sit and hope you don’t cut your fingers off. By the end of the year the pens didn’t work, at all. I’d write on the board and it’d be completely invisible to anyone not sitting a metre away from the board. Not a single solitary whiteboard pen around. I refused to spend my own money on anything so I worked with what I had.
Got to the point that there was so little glue I’d open books by the spine and forty worksheets would fall out as only two children had a glue stick. No one said ‘why aren’t you sticking these sheets in?’ no one said ‘these books look like shit, what are you doing?’
If no one gives a flying fuck about these kids what’s the point?
Schools will fund this and the daily lives get worse and worse and no one will know about how dire the situation actually is in schools because unless you’re there, day by day, you know nothing. The education secretary knows nothing. The DfE know less about education than Gavin Williamson. There is no hope.