News came through that we were to become the highest paid teachers in the land. Trevor Diogenes surveys the staffroom.
Teachers
Give the Baby Bonus to teachers instead?
There are approximately a quarter of a million babies born in Australia each year, and approximately a quarter of a million teachers. Is there something we can do with this? wonders Andrew Leigh.
Lowbottom High diaries: All’s VEL that ends VEL
Pupil-free days can be the path to valuable insight, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Lowbottom High diaries: Teacher types #1 – the untouchable relief teachers
Spare a thought for the relief teacher because very few of us full-timers do, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Lowbottom High diaries: Like Oberon, teachers are invisible
That teachers feature not at all on the list of professions that Australians trust is most deflating, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Lowbottom High diaries: Boredom in the Common Room
Is boredom prevalent in the teaching profession? Trevor Diogenes investigates.
Lowbottom High diaries: 12 weeks without parole
A long term looms, for Lowbottom High’s Trevor Diogenes
Lowbottom High diaries: End of term, the crow caws
The crows are gathered in the Tyburn tree outside the general office so it must be the end of term, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Lowbottom High diaries: The Seven Week Itch
If at term’s beginning one’s teaching allotment had all the alarming possibilities of a first date, we are now well into that period of a relationship where familiarity breeds contempt, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Lowbottom High diaries: The enigma of Space
Space is big. Really big. Unless we are speaking of that galactic anomaly the government teacher’s staffroom, writes Trevor Diogenes.
