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pcernie
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I was thinking that earlier, especially for someone who continues to do a lot of good.
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Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:15 pm |
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ProfessorF
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Call me cynical, but my money's on it being drug related. I hope I'm wrong. I'll never forget Reading Festival, 2007. I was talking to a friend, when I saw her waving. So I waved back, smiling, wondering who it was. "That's Peaches Geldof" my friend explained. "Oh really?" I said, playing it cool. Of course, by now, the person she was really waving at had wandered around us and was giving her a hug.
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Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:35 pm |
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oceanicitl
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She was too busy bringing up 2 little boys to be doing drugs. Anyway they've said today it wasn't drugs.
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pcernie
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pcernie
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pcernie
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| | | | Quote: CCTV in classrooms turning teachers into lab rats, union warns
Some 55% of teachers in CCTV classrooms say they're viewed by heads, while 41% say they're used to judge performance
The use of closed-circuit video cameras is creeping into classrooms in Britain and turning teachers into "lab rats", according to a survey by the NASUWT union that found 8% of teachers reporting CCTV had been installed inside their schools and observing their lessons.
Worryingly, while staff and pupil safety was the most widely-cited reason for the installation of CCTV, a small percentage of teachers said the footage was used to directly monitor their performance.
The majority of teachers with CCTV-equipped classrooms said they could not turn off the cameras, and that they were recorded constantly. Some 55% said the recordings were monitored by head teachers and other senior management, and 41% said it was used in judging staff.
One teacher said: "In my school it has been used specifically with newly-qualified teachers that the senior leadership team think are not performing well."
Others reported that school management had viewed CCTV footage to justify disciplinary action.
"When I asked what my head of department was doing watching a colleague in this way, she said she was trying to catch him out," one teacher responded to the survey.
Chris Keates, the general secretary of NASUWT, said teachers were already observed by Ofsted and other school inspectors and visitors. "Lab rats have more professional privacy," she said.
The NASUWT conference in Birmingham is to debate a motion on Sunday arguing that teachers endure undue monitoring "beyond any reasonable justification".
"The stories teachers recounted to us in the survey are a shocking catalogue of professional disrespect and unacceptable intrusion," Keates said.
"No other professionals are subjected to such appalling treatment. No one should be subjected to the stress and pressure of being watched constantly."
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http://www.theguardian.com/education/20 ... l-lab-ratsThe first thing I'd have done was get all the other teachers together and state quite clearly to management that isn't on! Spying on kids and teachers?!
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Sun Apr 20, 2014 3:21 pm |
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paulzolo
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The article fails to point out that schools also observe internally by having another teacher present in the classroom.
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Mon Apr 21, 2014 10:05 am |
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timark_uk
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And yet it is reported that she died of a heroin overdose. Sad, but there it is. Mark
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pcernie
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pcernie
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pcernie
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pcernie
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Ad agency apologises to Malala for cartoon images of her being shot http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/m ... oon-images
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pcernie
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Paul1965
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Japan girl group AKB48 attacked by male fan with sawTwo members of popular Japanese pop group AKB48 were injured after a fan attacked them with a saw. Rina Kawaei, 19, and Anna Iriyama, 18, were meeting with fans in the northern city of Takizawa on Sunday when a man lunged forward and slashed them. They sustained cuts on their hands and heads, reported Kyodo. A male staff member was also cut on his hand. The police have arrested the 24-year-old man, identified as Satoru Umeta. AKB48's manager was reported as saying the two girls' surgery was successful and they would be able to leave the hospital by Monday. Loons everywhere
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pcernie
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-27591344That right there is why I never rule out the death penalty.
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