Be Excellent To Each Other

Giles and Sue do the Good Life is awesome.

Do you think they do the wild thing together?

My friend is Front page of the Education Grauniad!

That's got to be a result. Mega sales ahoy! I know a lot of PGCE students that should read that.

I was trying to resign today, but my bloody head of department isn't in. Foiled!

Ha ha!

My roommate suggested I text him instead.

Heh, can't you wait until tomorrow or is today deadline day?

I've had that very honour myself

Well done to him, although if I were him I'd avoid the comments It was an interesting story and I think people who have commented so far have missed the point of what he was saying in an effort to show off how clever they are. He says himself that teachers need backed up by heads, league tables should be scrapped, more communication should exist between parents and teachers etc. The comments then appear to slag him off before explaining that the correct way to solve the problem is...and they repeat all his points!

Also, what is the neccessity in this comment


I'm sure that his time working supply was filled with knowledge that he was going to get rich from writing a book like this

I'm also pretty sure neither the article nor the book are cherry picking the worst of the education system as one commentator states, with the implication it is to make things seem worse than they are. Surely the article and book has made it clear that these are thwe worst of the schools and the resulting discussion is how to make the worst of the schools perform like the best of the schools!

Ugh, sorry if this post is messy, the mental college computer won't let me see what I'm writing, preffering instead to jump back to the top of the page

I've had that very honour myself

Well done to him, although if I were him I'd avoid the comments It was an interesting story and I think people who have commented so far have missed the point of what he was saying in an effort to show off how clever they are. He says himself that teachers need backed up by heads, league tables should be scrapped, more communication should exist between parents and teachers etc. The comments then appear to slag him off before explaining that the correct way to solve the problem is...and they repeat all his points!

Also, what is the neccessity in this comment


I'm sure that his time working supply was filled with knowledge that he was going to get rich from writing a book like this

I'm also pretty sure neither the article nor the book are cherry picking the worst of the education system as one commentator states, with the implication it is to make things seem worse than they are. Surely the article and book has made it clear that these are thwe worst of the schools and the resulting discussion is how to make the worst of the schools perform like the best of the schools!

Ugh, sorry if this post is messy, the mental college computer won't let me see what I'm writing, preffering instead to jump back to the top of the page

There's no particular requirement for urgency, but I just want to get it over and done with!

Leave a letter in his pigeon hole?

Heh.

Possibly bad form. Same with handing it in to one of the other partners (which I briefly considered)

Drive to wherever he is and hand the letter to him personally. Bill the company for travel and food expenses.

Looks like you have to stay put then Kissyfur.

Special Tuesday treat for Grim...

I'll be in my bunk.

College today. Have been stressing about a maths test I took last Tuesday all week because I need it to pass my course and I hadn't studied at all because I'd been away. I had tried to guess how many marks I'd managed but as far as I could tell I hadn't done enough to pass. Anyway, results this morning and turns out I had passed by a respectable margin so huge sighs of relief all round.
This leaves me with my morning free to work on other things. I can't concentrate though, the library is far too busy with a wee Costa coffee stand right next to it and the library is open plan so all I can hear is the noise of milk being foamed.
Considering giving it up for my now 'til my class after lunch and going for a KFC. (a rare treat for me, usually it's a Marks and Spencers sandwich in the car on college days while I read the paper.)

Hurrah!

Yay!

Yeah, locked in for another 18 months now isn't it.

Well done Gilly! I hated maths exams!

You're welcome. It took me ten minutes

Well done Gill! Treat yourself to a KFC!

Well done Gill!

I'm really genuinely surprised I managed to pass. There have been a few fails in the class and I was worried about it all week. Hopefully that's the last maths I have to do until next year. Most of it is easy enough if you learn the formulas but there were a few questions that seemed a lot less clear and one where I attempted to solve it a few times before scoring it out and pressing random buttons on the calculator in the hope of some sense appearing on screen.

I don't know how I'll cope with Maths at uni if I go

Congrats Gill! Now work out the best value KFC meal for your likes and dislikes.

That sounds so familiar

Don't worry about taking it at Uni Gill, as long as your marks in the other parts of the course are good, they will allow you to scrape through one bad one if my experience is anything to go by. I think I scored something like 23% in my final maths exam (learned one or two questions off by heart) and still ended up with a 2:1.

Here is an example of that question*. If anyone solves it, explain it for me eh?

Find all the solutions of:

2sin (x+0.3) = -1.4 for 0<x<2pie


*I managed to correctly answer the question immediatly preceding it, which was a variation on

Find all the solutions of:

5cos (x/2) = 0.4 for 0degrees < x < 360degrees

*exhales*

pie? Go and have your lunch

Well done Gill! Super duper, even!

Heh, I don't know how to type it! I agree though, I'm going to get some Hot Wings!

congrats gilly!

Well done Gill!

If I could be arsed I'd draw a graph. And then see where it is equal to -1.4 between 0 and 2pi.

Mmmm, pie...

Well done you.

This thread leaves me a little frightened about just how bad my understanding of anything harder than basic maths is.

I can't even remember if I covered any of the above at school. I was told I had to do A-Level maths if I wanted to do IT - so far, I've never needed anything beyond the absolute basics.

I pay an accountant to do maths for me.

That's not even maths, that's just adding!

I started to write something out, but as usual, the Internet has done it better already:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2s ... %3Cx%3C2pi

I've ju realised what I did! Brilliant. Pie

Woman to marry millionaire
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11765422

Oooh, do you think we'll get the day off?

He's getting odder and odder looking as he ages. And they both look way over 28!

BeeXmeet in Paris!

From that article -



Hardly worth asking them unless they're going to say "You're making a big mistake. Don't do it!"