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OK, I've managed to change the settings and shrink it. When I first used it there were only about 6 or 7 flags on there, it stopped working on here years ago and I never got round to removing it. It's very recently started showing again on here, but because I also use it on my homepage on a...

It is, and the more kids that did it the worse it would get. How, for example, as a chemistry teacher would I possibly organise practical coursework sessions, that student HAVE to do in order to pass if I could have huge numbers of the class missing at regular intervals never knowing when that...

I'd forgotten it was there, until very recently it never worked. I think I may keep it a bit longer though...

A lot of that IS unnecessary, but teacher's don;t do it by choice they do it because they HAVE to or their schools would fail inspections... ...all that pointless paperwork I was talking about.

I have yet to meet anyone who went into teaching from another job, or gave up teaching to do another job say that teaching was the easy one. To be fair, since emigrating and moving abroad I've realised just how much of that is the ludicrous amount of pointless paperwork that teachers have to...

Do you think marking and lesson planning has to be done at school? Most teachers take huge amounts of work home.

Do YOU do your work training during your holiday?

.and of course, because it says what you want to hear, it must be right and all the other research wrong. The FACT is that smaller class sizes DO improve education, I agree it's impossible to make them small enough in the public system, but that's no reason to dismiss facts. When I was...

Usually because the school isn't informed of the reason until after they've initiated action. I've seen this many times.

...and make it completely impossible for teachers to plan any sort of coherent curriculum. It would lead to you regularly losing large numbers of the class with no, or little notice, and pupils constantly being behind. Possible the single most stupid suggestion I've seen.

So what? Novovirus is one of many causative agents of gastro-enteritis. Do you think that now we HAVE discovered the virus and DO know how contagious it is we should ignore that information just because we didn't know 30 years ago?

On the contrary, it happens in MOST countries that people get jailed if they refuse to pay fines.

...and what do you think would happen if even as many as 20% of parents took this attitude and classes regularly had extra kids missing for holidays? The fact is that it DOES affect their education, and the education of others. I;m very happy for your children, but to be getting those sorts of...

Nice to see a sensible post on this. It's a huge problem with UK poiltics, that most governments don't ever seem to be capable of seeing the middle ground, instead opting for one extreme or the other. As a general rule of principle, it is not acceptable to take kids on holiday during term...

OK, as a teacher this is the singlemost stupid argument I have seen. It's pretty damn obvious that if the whole school is closed, none of the pupils get behind the others. If a child is off for a week, they've missed a whole week's work that the other students have done. THAT"S the difference...

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Hitler wasn't impressed though...

Beautiful. http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Friday_%28song%29

I don't know how many saw this first time round, but a claim was made that Rebecca Black's awful Friday was a Bob Dylan cover. The "original" was uploaded to YouTube. Loads of idiots fell for it, and even more geniuses who DIDN'T fall for it played along and came up with some great backstories...