And once more did the queen hie her forth to make progresse through her kingdom the better to see the greate works wrought in her name, writes Trevor Diogenes
Columns / Lowbottom High Diaries
Online teacher infiltration
Meanwhile, in a cyber universe far far away (but paradoxically very near you), the kids are compiling their own league table, writes Trevor Diogenes.
The frontline of a lethal viral attack
This week it became abundantly clear that not only would schools be the frontline in the event of a lethal viral attack but that we’d be cactus no matter what, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Arson and the relevance of Ukrainian
We feel that arson is warrantable grounds for expelling a student from the school body, writes Lowbottom principal Imre Kevorkian.
“Gallipolli is so gay,” quoth Tarquin.
The news that the new national curriculum makes it mandatory that all history taught must have 40% Australian content had its detractors. “Are you serious?” quoth Tarquin. Trevor Diogenes from the classroom.
Lowbottom High Diaries: we don’t need no renovation
Please, Mr Rudd and Mr Brumby, we don’t want your money. Not your state-of-the-art facilities nor the surrounds which promise comfort and inspiration to both teacher and student, writes Trevor Diogenes
Student refugees of the GFC
Casualties of the economic shipwreck are washing up at the entrance of Lowbottom in increasing numbers, writes Trevor Diogenes.
A crash course for student teachers
A crash course for student teachers has been obtained by Trevor Diogenes.
Parent-teacher interview code revealed
A good part of the stress of parent-teacher interviews resides in the difficulty of tailoring the honest truth to what parents want to hear. Teachers, as a consequence, employ a kind of code, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Exponential Easter fury
It is a documented fact that rats placed in too close proximity will turn on their own. At the end of first term something of the kind is being played out in the staffrooms of Lowbottom, writes Trevor Diogenes.
God help us, professional development training
The word from on high was that teachers, already sorely stretched, were to undertake ongoing training. It was called Professional Development and the yoke was heavy upon them, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Big Sister
In one’s youth Big Sister was a range of cake and pudding mixes. In the new millennium it is those power skirts in the federal and state governments who seem to want to play headmistress, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Yellow ribbons and buckets of coins
A pall hung over the classroom that first week as our charges came to terms with the fact that there is more to existence than MSN and Facebook, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Good morning sunshine
Getting public transport is a nightmare. Then school starts, writes Trevor Diogenes.
The school year splutters to life
It’s the start of the school year. A time for bad singing and even worse analogies, writes Trevor Diogenes.
The sound of the final bell
And now (courtesy of our sponsor Google Earth) we pan up to see revealed the wonder of Lowbottom High, writes Trevor Diogenes.
A principal composes his Christmas newsletter
Dear Parents and Students, I can only agree with the estimation of our Premier that social values are sadly lacking. I propose therefore a draft code of conduct for students, teachers and parents, writes Trevor Diogenes.
History written by committee
Teachers have been invited to join with hairdressers in deciding their futures by responding to the current draft of the national curriculum, writes Trevor Diogenes.
The agony of the annual exam
How many different ways can you spell “soliloquy”? You would be surprised, writes Trevor Diogenes.
The end school year is an uphill race
Rather naughtily, Alfred Jarry once likened the Passion of Christ to an uphill bicycle race. The apostles presumably formed the peloton. The last gruelling weeks of the school year cry out for a like metaphor, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Witnessing history as it was happening
It sometimes happens that history coincides with the curriculum, in fact insists upon it, writes Trevor Diogenes.
International Teachers’ Day. Woo hoo!
We cross live to Geraldine Doogue and Kerry O’Brien at the International Teachers’ Day festivities at Lowbottom High … with Trevor Diogenes.
Xavier goes wild, the state schools snigger
We in the government system have not taken such gloating enjoyment at the discomfort of the Xavier College authorities since, well, the last time they were discomforted, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Lessons in history, brought to you by The Oz
Left-wing appears to be being confused with sceptical. Scepticism is the basis of ALL inquiry, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Vulnavia goes full frontal
‘But haven’t you got anyone closer to home, family say, who you can photograph?’ writes Trevor Diogenes.
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