Taxpayers - your money in action!
I wanted to comment on my Friday. As some of you are aware I had a whole 10 minutes contact time with a class before enjoying a couple of frees then heading into Manchester for a Maths Inspiration seminar with my sixth form class. This lasted for about two and a half hours. I then went for a beer or two with the chief of sixth form maths (5 hours). Some of you have been suggesting I've got it easy. Now I'll be the first to admit I did enjoy Friday, but it was a tiny break in a jungle of work and burden of responsibility.
This morning, reporting back to the department I realised I remembered more about the beers (near the Fringe bar there is a place serving Rosewood ale, highly recommended!) than the seminar, I learned that one of my Year 9 classes had staged a revolt against the Austrian supply teacher ("We want Mr T back, we want Mr T back!"), and that over the course of the next few weeks I'll have 20 pieces of GCSE coursework to mark, 25 A-level mock exams, 25 mock GCSE papers, 88 Year 8 SATS papers and 93 Year 7 numeracy tests!
And to think I have to wait until 53 before I can take semi-retirement!!
Did you know Tameside Council has managed to save £16,000 this year by making departments turn their computers off overnight?
This morning, reporting back to the department I realised I remembered more about the beers (near the Fringe bar there is a place serving Rosewood ale, highly recommended!) than the seminar, I learned that one of my Year 9 classes had staged a revolt against the Austrian supply teacher ("We want Mr T back, we want Mr T back!"), and that over the course of the next few weeks I'll have 20 pieces of GCSE coursework to mark, 25 A-level mock exams, 25 mock GCSE papers, 88 Year 8 SATS papers and 93 Year 7 numeracy tests!
And to think I have to wait until 53 before I can take semi-retirement!!
Did you know Tameside Council has managed to save £16,000 this year by making departments turn their computers off overnight?
posted by Mr T at 7:21 pm
3 Comments:
First off, good on Tameside council. An environmental policy that also saves money! Very forward thinking, yet so simple!
Second, that's a lot of marking you've got to do! I don't think people would say (seriously) you had an easy life either. All peaks and troughs in the teaching profession I'd say.
With the greatest respect Shiz, I'm not aware of any council that has a policy of encouraging employees to leave computers on and waste as much energy as possible. I thought all Council's turned them off.
I wonder how many shots the 'inspirational maths' poster had to take - i.e. so it could tick all the 'inclusive' 'diversity' 'interactive' tick-boxes.
It's not a case of any organisation (public or private) having a deliberate policy to leave them on, more a case of most organisation not having a policy to turn them off, and if they do, not really doing any action about it.
Hence up and down the country, every day, in many offices, mobile phone chargers, computer monitors, lights, PDA chargers, laptop chargers, and many other things are left plugged in over night because people don't think.
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