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Classics teacher, Anglican, Orange Booker, Ally, music lover, cat person. Gashead. Tifoso. AuDHD. Hobbies are tweed, cocktails & tattoos. Views own. He/him.
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I've been studying Greek since I was in Year 9 (1988). I read Classics at university. I've been teaching Greek and Ancient History for nearly fifteen years.
I *still* can't spell "Peloponnesian".
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Our two star Classicists have Oxford offers. Days like today are why I teach. All the admin, data crunching, pointless INSETs, cover... it all matters so much less on a morning like this โค๏ธ
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@STUPlDHORSE
@inelliegant
Um, tolerate someone's different political position like an adult..?
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@RogersHistory
I actually wish they'd scrap this law about having to advertise all jobs externally. If they know they're going to appoint an internal candidate then the externals are just having their bloody time wasted.
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I'd just like to remind millennials that *any* of you could have bought Twitter if you'd only spent less money on takeaway coffees and avocado toast.
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@MitchellWHU
I donโt get people who donโt support the club local to where they grew up. How do you feel any true affinity with a club based hundreds of miles away?
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Have I been studying Ancient Greek since I was 13? Yes. Have I been teaching it to Oxbridge Entrance level for nearly 15 years? Yes.
Do I still mix up various tenses/participles of ฮฟฮฏฮดฮฑ/ฮฟฯฮฑฯ? Also yes. ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
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@emilyhewertson
Great, but some of us have lived through one majority Labour government and don't much fancy repeating the experience.
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@PastoralKaty
It's the only one which actually feels like a holiday. Easter is half taken up with trips, half-terms there's work to do, Christmas is frantic. Summer is the only holiday in which I actually feel like I recharge properly.
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@keaysus
@3YearLetterman
State of these replies. British food being criticized by the denizens of a country where they put marshmallows in salads.
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@anon_opin
Firstly, not everyone has it in them to be a teacher.
Secondly, it takes a good four years experience to make a really decent teacher. This would just flood schools with teachers at the bottom end of the learning curve.
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@TypeForVictory
Um, ยฃ40k for anyone under 30 is a good salary, pretty much regardless of quals
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@SwannMarcus89
There is also the point that six million represents two thirds of the Jewish population of Europe at the time.
Two thirds. Two in three.
The percentage equivalent would have been the Soviet Union suffering military plus civilian casualties of well over 100,000,000.
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@roselyddon
See also "narcissist" and "sense of entitlement", both of which are routinely misused
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@Pravina_R
Pressuring someone to do something sexually which they donโt want to do is abusive. One can *ask*, sure, but if one does then be prepared to accept the answer โnoโ. Are we really even discussing this?
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@Aria_Babu
"When I was at school, dyslexia and other neurodivergencies weren't properly understood. Now they are. That's progress."
There, fixed it for you.
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Talking about Cyrus the Great in a Year 9 lesson: "The Median Empire. Yeah, kind of average"
No laughs. None.
Philistines.
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@anon_opin
Tell me you don't actually know what a conductor does without telling me etc ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
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On the one hand (ฮผฮตฮฝ) I feel I should try to be more positive, but on the other hand (ฮดฮต) fuck *everything*
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@ericeidelstein
I've felt like an outsider pretty much my whole life, I'm terrible at people-ing, I make poor choices, and I'm obsessed with Herodotus so:
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@romanhelmetguy
@barkattack
@frankgrobb
Sparta was given nominal supreme command because they would inevitably sulk and refuse to be involved if they weren't.
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@anon_opin
No. The worst one is people ordering in restaurants, coffee shops etc with "can I get...?" ๐คฎ
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@thehistoryguy
The Church of England is both Catholic and Reformed; it is not - strictly speaking - "Protestant"
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@OpusMixtum
I love the idea that academic historians - who literally cannot even agree on what "History" is - have gathered together to agree an official party line on all historical issues...
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@benrileysmith
@christopherhope
@StefanRousseau
Starmer looks like a Year 10 who remembered halfway through breaktime that he hasn't revised for his vocab test next lesson.
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@BadAncient
And hang on: he "avoided mutiny in India"? Um, not really. The extent to which the whole affair was stage-managed is debatable, but it certainly wasn't "avoided".
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@WhistleblowingT
Sorry, the 15-minute window to call in sick is *normal*?
Honestly, you people
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@thesaltynsassy
The idea that autistic people "bring it on themselves" because they're "odd" remains remarkably prevalent.
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@JamesHarrisNow
Reminds me of an acquaintance in the nineties who was convinced that Thatcher's three elections wins must have been rigged.
Her 'proof'? "Well I've never met anyone who voted for her!"
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@TopherHarrison_
Poverty/homelessness/litter/dirty streets all *at least* as bad in every other major European city I've visited in the last five years, Paris especially.
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@RogersHistory
ยฃ43,685 is the most a state school classroom teacher can get outside the London fringe?? No wonder there's a retention crisis...
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@cafreiman
One day *someone* will make a criticism of Capitalism which can't be instantly refuted using actual data, but I won't hold my breath...
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@RogersHistory
@itvpeston
@Miss_Snuffy
Pay is an issue, but a bigger one is this: when I started teaching, giving 110% was recognised and appreciated and rewarded; nowadays, giving 120% has become the base level of expectation.
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@spielwomann
Worse, we're telling them that conforming to neurotypical 'norms' will make them more valuable as people, and that they are therefore inferior until they do.
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@WhistleblowingT
You keep your nose out. I'm no fan of infidelity but this is no-one's business except theirs and the married person's partner's.
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@TabitaSurge
"She refused to acknowledge their demands"
She has absolutely no right to refuse to call a pupil by their preferred pronouns.
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@secretHT1
Yes my career choice comes with 16 weeks holiday a year; it also comes with endless lost weekends and a salary thatโs half what most of my university peers make so ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
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@ASBOTeacher
Up to a point, but I'm a teacher first and foremost because I love my subject(s). Pedagogy bores me, and I'm unashamedly "chalk and talk"; if you've got the subject knowledge and the enthusiasm, it works really well.
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@TabitaSurge
I also don't get why they need your pre-university educational details. I sat GSCEs in 1991, lost the certificates decades ago, and can barely even remember what *subjects* I sat, never mind grades. I've got two MAs and a PGCE, why do they even need to know what I got at GCSE?
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@RogersHistory
I've always maintained that the mark of a really good school is that teachers never even know if they can 'do' classroom management, because they never have to.
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@BadAncient
It's so tiresome, and invariably delivered in such a tone of triumph: "gotcha, Christians!"
Almost on a par is the annual "St George was Turkish" thing on 21/4. That is at least true, but always posted like it's some blinding insight when it's something everyone already knows.
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@StarlightMcKenz
@rfhrfhrfhrfh
@miss_mcinerney
Exactly so. Lesson plans submitted in advance, learning walks, unannounced SLT observations, book scrutiny; all of these things scream "we don't trust you to do your job properly unless you're constantly monitored". Inexcusable.
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Academics, please stop referring to academia as "the academy"; it's so fucking pretentious I can't even.
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@NR_Twatter
@TomlinJeanne
@romanhelmetguy
@barkattack
@frankgrobb
And an Athenian can't have pro-Spartan sympathies? Boy, wait till you hear about this guy called Xenophon...
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@leonieincayman
@_BillieBelieves
The Cambridge vaccine is intentionally closely based on the Oxford one, itโs just not *quite* as good.
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@LittlePuddins
In some ways the others are all forms of unmasking. I have to trust someone as much as I'm capable of trusting someone (low bar tbh) in order to be able to stim around them, or share experiences, or info dump.
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@KateBatt1
@WritesBright
So simplistic. In fact the super-rich will send their children to boarding schools abroad and the rest will spend the fee money on private tutoring. The quality of state schools won't improve one iota.
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@rblandford
"The window in the middle is actually on the right" might be more appropriate in the current climate.
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The hardest thing about teaching, by a long way, is classroom management. I'm in my thirteenth year of teaching and am regularly faced with the fact that I have no real idea how to do it. Draining as hell sometimes
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Best tweet so far
โI can no longer, in good conscience, live with this Prime Minister. Either he goes, or I doโ
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@Lucy_Worsley
I always thought you were descended from Arthur Worsley, Duke of Wellington ๐ค
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@edudissenter
No. The most intellectual teachers realise that either is pretty much useless without the other.
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@Heraclis_82
@EndWokeness
@heckyessica
Please cite your actual evidence for these "many" Greek city-states in which male homosexuality was illegal.
Only I've been studying/teaching Greek history for over thirty years and this is news to me...
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@medusas_heid
I am/have been Head of Oxbridge at two leading independent schools as well as teaching Classics for nearly fifteen years. DM me if you want any advice.
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@lucymooring
Not just a first-gen thing at all. I was second gen but child of two teachers and I had *no* conception of what things like consultancy and banking even were.
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That's the internet won for today, then
Laughed out loud. Came back to it later, laughed out loud again.
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Amazon Prime, in addition to next day delivery, needs to offer teachers an 'in time for period two tomorrow' option.
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@Bastiaanklerk
Yes, it's amazing how Labour will constantly promote absolute nonentities purely because they have the right Union connections.
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@LambethConfNews
@JustinWelby
@The_Tablet
@LambethConf
<Points at article 37 of the Thirty-Nine Articles>
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@lucymooring
People need to realise that it's not a state/private binary. Going to a top state school arguably gives you more advantages than a mediocre private one, trust me...
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@rorymeakin
@katebevan
@jamesrbuk
Incorrect. The Highway Code states that cyclists should not use pavements and doing so can get a FPN.
Since lockdown the police don't seem to bother enforcing it, but that doesn't make it okay.
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Delighted for all the RGS pupils who have achieved their offers today, especially those doing some or all of Latin/Greek/AH (two of whom will take up well-deserved Oxford places).
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Portrait to be used on a poster advertising - believe it or not - the school D&D club.
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Um, is he aware of the derivation of the word "library"...?
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@EllieStitches
Survived a divorce, house sale, house purchase collapse and last-second move into rented house whilst working full-time as a teacher, therefore enduring a summer term of remote teaching and an autumn term of, well, awfulness.
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@oldenoughtosay
You'll find that there's more inverted snobbery in England than anywhere else on earth.
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@oldandrewuk
Disgraceful.
Disparaging remarks about a teacher's subject are *never* acceptable unless it's Geography or PE ๐
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@LEJenksBrown
Really firmly believe, and people are often surprised by this, that there are NO texts that "every Classicist should read". Read the ones that interest *you*, regardless. Forcing me as pupil/student to read lots of Homer and Virgil would have put me right off the whole discipline
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Should be a statutory requirement
Schools should have padded, soundproofed rooms for teachers to go and scream in after they teach year 9 bottom set last thing on a Friday
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@AmandeepBhogal
@Conservatives
@BorisJohnson
I really disagree with you on Brexit but Iโd still vote for you if I lived in your constituency. Good luck!
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@TheChapMag
My cat is always immaculately turned out and invariably awaits agog for the quarterly arrival of your publication. Here she can be observed perusing the Spring 2022 edition with customary enjoyment. Is she 'chap'?
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Thought I'd just coughed up blood over my phone, luckily it was coffee and a trick of the light.
On the downside, if I don't have the consumption then I've no excuse to take laudanum.
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@calucas16
@RogersHistory
Yes, and they absolutely will come for state school pensions once they've priced independents out of the TPS; the lack of solidarity from state school teachers on this is startling. Spoilers: you're next.
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@cafreiman
Jacobin really is wrong about absolutely everything. It's almost like it's on purpose.
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@LEJenksBrown
Favourite texts as a pupil/student: Herodotus, Xenophon's Anabasis, Plutarch, Tacitus, Sophocles and Euripides. Since then have added Arrian and pretty much all Greek Lyric to the list.
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