Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

seen it... know it... have it... been there... done that.... still doin it LOL

Take a deep breath and plunge on in there AM... good luck

bugger, ill have 100 assignments and 50 exams to mark and have to report as well.. and ive got 10 days left to do it!

And poeple say teachers dont work... now do the math... im sure parents would want to know we are giving their child feedback... so lets say just 5 minutes per assignment...


Thats 500 minutes and another 200 minutes for exams... so thats 700 minutes... add another 5 hours (being kind) for reporting.... lemmie do the math.. 700 / 60 = 11.6 hours + 5 more hours reporting....

Now lets get real.. some assignments take 15 minutes not 5 minutes...

now take that into account.... Yea.. i DONT get paid enough when NONE of that is done during school hours and ALL of that is done in me and my families time.... Thats time I DONT get with my family

Yeah, like my 3 1/2 year old daughter understands when daddy constantly says "im busy darling, cant come and play.. or when i do and get constantly distracted that 11.5 hours + turns into 20 hours....

Teachers get screwed man... Aquaponics is Therapy!

Why haven't we seen up as your avatar yet....must be too busy marking assignments

I was having trouble with the avatar.. it wouldnt accept it.. think i need to save the as a picture.. etc.. im working on it..!

1)bring up the emoticons
2) right click on
3) select "save image as"
4) put it somewhere you can easily get it - it should save as 33*28 and be 286 bytes
5)click on profile - top of page
6)scroll down to bottom of your profile page and click on browse
7) I think you need to enter your password again (top of page) before hitting "submit"
if this doesn't work log the error message (then complain to Steve )

I was going to change mine to and make sure it worked but I couldn't find where I put my "mature" avatar to revert back

you wont get any argument here from me about the value of teachers...

For what we expect from them, both educationally and socially in terms of producing viable and productive members of society I think that teachers are the most undervalued and under-payed profession.

Particularly since we have abandoned the responsibility of so much that we as parents used to do to impart social values, behaviours and norms to our children.

Here here, PREACH IT BROTHER!!!!
I just spent 1 and a half hours chatting to ONE parent so as to try sort his son's social problems out... hmmm, lets see, what SUBJECT does that fall into???... what, none that I am payed to teach... social work you say... so whaen was I employed as a social worker again...hmmm...
we do it purely because we care and want to do a good job... it wears at us and steals precious time from our kids etc - NOT TO MENTION FROM AP... BUT i DO LIKE INTERACTING WITH THE KIDS ETC...

SO THOSE 4 HOLIDAYS A YEAR ARE NOT HOLIDAYS, iT'S STRESS LEAVE!!!

Have another job for my hols - cleaning up my once apon a thime vegie garden pictured below - those weeds are taller than I am (must be damn good soil )

Chainsaw or whipper-snipper AM.... five minutes work I reckon LOL

Bush knife, compass and and a days worth of food rashons

Hiding from the wife and kids again heh

even cane toads dont go in there - it would be an ideal place

Ah, im just being cynical... it was a bad ish day... but its ok since i had a sleep..

Did I mention I was marking at school last night till 11pm... Thank heavens my wifes in Cairns right now...

maybe it is a good thing she's visiting family right now

And you were wondering what you would do while she was away