I feel your pain. try and be as nice as possible, but then its the soinc thing, maybe a set of effen loud speakers so you can blast the neighbours when you feel like it and get on to the council about noise control.

We use a lot of ikea stuff, but the beds I’ve seen so far are too flimsy.
Foudn this, which actually takes a ton of bricks, but these are bit ugly.
http://www.funky-chunky-furniture.co.uk/double-plank-headboard-bed-frame-3712-p.asp

Hmm not a bad idea, as long as they are tasteful. The students are very demanding.

Aye we have done brackets in the past, but I just want to start with decent beds in the first place.

Its for student housing you naughty scamp.
I prefer to provide decent quality stuff – it makes them happy, saves work for me to keep going back and get crap stuff fixed, and crucially, when prospective tenants look round they notice the good stuff..

How is it connected together?

isn’t it worth spending some time actually looking at them before you buy??

Indeed it is, but drawing on others experience is also helpful.Although in this case it appears to have backfired.

It is off the pace but it would be showing promise for a newcomer. How many of us could have done a dh run only 35s slower then Rachel?

Thanks, I am working on the yophoto software now. will report back with thrilling news as events warrant.

Neutralise farts, or silence midnight parties/barkingdogs/hums/noisyexhausts.

Given the number of moans on here about rip offs for repairs you can see why bikes shops struggle to make any money never mind raise wages.
People just do not understand what goes into paying someone a wage and running a workshop.

Although I think its 7.85 an hr right? Its not much is it.

Round here I know that well qualified (ie gas safe reg) plumbers get 15 an hr + 1.5 times OT.
Which means they make about 30k a year if they do a bit of OT.

She swears a quite a bit..

Claudio had dinner with her last night, the scamp.

My experience echoes that of the OP, the money is primarily spent on small classes. our school was materially falling apart at the seams, classes all well below 20 kids.
Added to kids that want to work, and parents that will back you up, and we have a winner.
Aside from the staff and management my private school experience was comparitavely blissful. I really enjoyed knowing the kids and the parents and my challenge was how to maximise their learning, not how to minimise disruption.
Surely all teachers must think that small classes are a good idea (HINT this means spending money on moar teechers!!!)

I love the struggle of getting the reluctant to work and make something of themselves

Admirable. I did this for 10 odd years and it was very tiring. I hope to never do it again, was thankless.

and no doubt much better lets be honest.

I guess its what you define as better – if producing kids who are well rounded, useful, and potent is what you want then yes I agree entirely.

why work at such a place if you think you could earn as much with less work elsewhere?

I know this was aimed at Convert and not at me, but as I said for me it was easier. It was less stressful and actually quite pleasant.

The individual is what counts rather than some comprehensive generalisation…..

I don’t see the private school on the CV adding anything.

I agree with both of these statements.
There is also an issue with statistics and how they are applied. The statistics show that private educated kids do better in the logn run, so some people apply their own prejudices and theories (as I did).
But one must remember that many private schools are selective, and private schools are only a small proportion fo the cohort under study.

I love this place.

In fact he goes to great pains to stress he doesn’t have a theory; he just goes where information takes him and that often persists in to territories most find ridiculous.

You see this is where the problem lies. Each “fact” or “claim” does not stand on its own.
These “facts” or “claims” often contradict or do not directly support each other but it is seen as a general body of evidence. The bloke Icke is an epic moron, some people, including you rone and JHJ, need to learn some critical thinking skills.

Most CCTV is also used to encourage crime and those who fit it are asking to be robbed and in a very confrontational way

Excellent

Its manchester, 70:30 it will rain no matter what..

yes I didnt see JHJ’s comment as toungue in cheek at all. He likes to dissemble and wink, but still promotes all this crap.

Sounds very similar to my experience. I wasn’t even lucky enough to abroad that often though. As a junior staff member I had to run the local or Uk based activities. I did go to france one year for a week..
But we all know that whilst it sounds like a holiday, but often isn’t. I wanted to be at home with my kids.

Its just that you state above that you already know that they’re privately educated- observer bias at play here?

Where did I state that?
I’m not offended but let me assure you I do know about confirmation bias and many other logical fallacies.
When I meet them I don’t know their backgrounds, but I can guess pretty fast.
Eye contact, clear speech, manners, and well defined purpose of speech are more common in my anecdotal experience.
Of course nobody is immune to observer bias, but before I worked in private sector I had no such bias – I just did not know anything about it.
You could accuse any of the other psoters on here of the same thing.
Epicyclo mentioned nepotism and cronyism, does he have evidence/experience of that? It is easy to say that private education is part of a club that promotes its own but it could be possible that it is just better at producing individuals who are more ready, able and prepared to be leaders. (and expectant)

though there is the teeny-tiny chance there is actually lizards involved

Uh oh..

Well I don’t have a willy so..

The holiday thing is a red herring private schools have longer holidays

Yes indeed but I had to work 3 weeks of those, that was my point, I had assumed everyone knows that Private have longer holidays. Most of my friends in state sector walk out the door on last day of school and go away for 6 weeks only thinking about work the weekend before they come back. Which is a holiday they need as its so bloody knackering/demanding.
Anywa to be clear, I was not being critical, I was a asking convert what has contributed to his reduction in effective hourly rate and illustrating how many hrs I had to do.

The Sherborne friend is attmepting to do exactly that, but you know how difficult it is, to leave for nxt academic year she has to have given notice last term. Its not like normal jobs where you can accept an offer and then change your mind when your current boss agrees to give you a raise.

Do you work sat mornings, two weeks extra in the summer hols on activites week. Contracted to come in a week before school starts after the summer.
After school clubs/activities every night that you have to run?
Lunch time clubs?

Well we know for sure he survived that crash off the bridge, don’t we. Quack quack. One could argue in terms of calssification that a “rubber duck” is actually a lizard.
In fact Convoy is a secret illumintae message.

Fine line between this and arrogance and self entitlement

That is true, but it is also in the eye of the beholder is it not?
I went to a 1980’s comprehensive FYI.

Dr actually

My apologies, I was alluding to your gender.
My anecdote, does only apply to my experience, but all my colleagues and other friends who work in Private are paid less then State. Friend at Sherborne who is battling at the moment to get a pay rise commensurate with state sector.

Often times I hate STW, people here can be so nasty and judgemental, but the general consensus on this thread has me applauding.

Private school teachers don’t get more pay though.
I taught in the state sector from 1996-2005 and private until 2010. Took a pay cut, was denied part time hrs when I wanted to return from maternity, and worked more hours (yes more days per year) than when I worked in state schools.
But in general it was a much easier job. You don’t have to be a good teacher to get good results in a private school, the students want to learn and encourage each other. I have lost my classroom edge now and do not think I could ever work in the state sector again. Mr (I assume) Arvensis, you work in Private don’t you? Did you ever work in the state sector, I would be interested in your comments on the differences?

Note -The best teaching I have ever seen was in the worst school I ever worked in, one of the worst schools in the UK for class size, poverty, and level of intake. The schools value added was amazing.

I am sure there is nepotism and cronyism, but there is something else that comes with a private education – very high peer and parental expectation, not just academic but social and career wise. This leads to 6th formers leaving school with a huge amount of confidence and self expectation. Exactly what Ben Cooper derides, but it seems valuable and positive to me, based on the kids I have met both during and after my private school teaching career.
I now deal with Uni students and those from private backgrounds exude soft skills, diplomatic in their approach to problems, confident in their abilities, often charming with excellent manners, and generally well informed. They also listen well. My treatment of them is equal to those from the state sector, I don’t know their parents and have nothing to gain from their reaction to my services.

It is easy to assume that nepotism and cronyism are responsible for their successes, but I feel that the parental and peer expectation creates and environment for success.

The findings come after accountancy firm Ernst and Young (EY) announced it is removing all academic and education details from its trainee application process.

I would be willing to bet that private educated kids still do better even after this.

200-300quid to submit application. They are very helpful.
Might need a struct eng to do calcs for rsj etc. maybe 500-600 for that. (well that was what I paid 18 months ago)

Switchbacks Bubion – take your AM bike as there is lots of climbing, but the descending is stunning.
I dunno what the conditions will be like for rideslovenia but its excellent there again Am bike, but serious trails.
The mountainbikeadventure in portugal is 90% Dh tracks, but it makes sense to use an AM/Enduro?gnarrmobile bike as there is a little climbing. We did it on DH bikes but wished we had our AM bikes.. Also they are flippin cheap.

HAd lunch, sat at my desk, feeling soooo sleepy. Wish I still worked from home. I would just go to bed!

I think HansRey is out there with IceBike right now.
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These guys in Devon. I think they have an off the shelf for the MAzda 3.

he was caught by a manager who blew the whistle on him at Citibank a year before he was charged, they informed the cops immeadiatly butr took a good long time to investigate. So the bank referred themselves before anyone outside knew what was going on.

We have these clarks ones on three bikes between me and Mrdbcooper, which are pretty cheap anyway. Have so far done 2 weeks of Dh on them without any issues.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/clarks-cfr-10fa-floating-disc-rotor/rp-prod120228