Professionalism

This the outside of the photocopy room where many things are photocopied, often at the last minute, sometimes on the way from the car to the classroom and occasionally during class, by incompetent English teachers, most of whom regard 22 copies of a page full of grammar questions (from a book) and another 22 copies of a crossword (which is a useful ESL tool if used sparingly, not every lesson) more than enough work to justify the payment they receive each month for their role as a 'teacher', a role which although required of them for 100 minutes each lesson, reached new lows today when one class was 'let out' after an hour by Mr Freaktard (an IT teacher who somehow managed to convince the management that teaching students how to use Microsoft Word is a necessary stand-alone subject rather than just the basic life skill it actually is these days) who is completely oblivious to my knowledge of his tactics and doesn't even have the common sense to make sure his students don't come knocking on my door during my full length vocabulary review, video task, handout exercise, listening skills, PowerPoint presentation, group work and running dictation activity-centered lesson to dump their books off before their next class.

He's not the only one either. Syllablechops, Wrinklepuss, Wanksplat and Poshstick were all at it today.

Still, at least they make me look good. Not that anyone's watching, obviously.