One in five teachers using own money for school supplies – report

[Sean Hayden]

The order of things is important Mr Peacock, as is knowing one's own position in the order.

[Brian Peacock]

I know my place.

[JimC]

I went to our Aussie equivalent of a British public school, but I've got over it...

[Svartalf]

I was educated in state school, and did well in the university, even if it was not the Sorbonne... Bordeaux is a good place to do one's English lang and lit education.

[rainbow]

I was educated in state school, and did well in the university, even if it was not the Sorbonne... Bordeaux is a good place to do one's English lang and lit education.

Have you ever been to Parentis-en-Born? I might have to go there.

[Svartalf]

much to my shame, I've not visited that area of the Landes, what's so special there?

[rainbow]

much to my shame, I've not visited that area of the Landes, what's so special there?

There is a company I might have to visit near there. I was just wondering if the area was worth spending some extra time. Alternatively, I believe there are some good wine farms?

[Svartalf]

you won't find local wine in the Landes, bad land for that, you'll have to go more to the North toward Bordeaux.

You work in oil? to my knowledge that's the main industry there.

[Scot Dutchy]

rainbow

The north side of the Gironde is the real wine area as Svarty said. The big châteaux are there.

[Svartalf]

there are many good chateaux on the West bank too, Médoc, St Julien and Margaux to cite but a few names.

[Scot Dutchy]

there are many good chateaux on the West bank too, Médoc, St Julien and Margaux to cite but a few names.

Depends on how you view it. I have this problem often. Here we have North and South Holland. In Vlanderen they talk about East and West Vlanderen which is geographically in the same position as is the Girond estuary.

[Svartalf]

well, it all depends on whether Rainbow likes better médoc or pomerol.

[Rum]

My abiding memories of that neck of the woods is endless forest, with tiny villages dotted here and there. I can’t recall exactly where that was but somewhere driving from north west into Bordeaux (our destination) via the back roads - our favourite way of travelling in rural France. A lovely part of the country.

[Scot Dutchy]

The great education system in the UK.

Headteachers subjected to death threats amid growth in attacks from parents and students, school leaders say

‘Do we need to have a headteacher die before we take this seriously?’ asks union member

Headteachers are being subjected to death threats and teachers have to leave school in groups amid a rise in attacks and aggression from parents and pupils, school leaders have warned.

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has now backed a motion calling on the government to help reduce severe and frequent attacks against staff.

Michelle Sheehy, a headteacher from Walsall, said two members of staff in a secondary school had been “threatened with an axe” and subjected to “racist and homophobic abuse”.

She added that teachers left in groups in another school because they were too “afraid of violent repercussions from parents”.

Alice Middleton, from the Dudley NAHT branch, said she was recently approached by a parent on the school playground who threatened to kill her. The mother then denied the death threat, the head said.

[pErvinalia]

The neoliberal UK, US, Australian etc societies are sick. We need to cut out the cancer that is neoliberalism.