Pornography

There i am, smuggly laffing at Ginger Warrior’s struggles against “students behaving badly” but i soon have my own problem that seriously wipes the smirk off my suntanned face.

During my morning visit to my school on my fact-finding tour back in April, i swiftly identified Ms Christian the ICT teacher as a complete waste of space. Students were sat 3 to a computer (despite 4 terminals sitting empty) doing whatever they wanted to do. Some were playing fighting games, a couple on Paint and some just sitting doing nothing at all. 

On my arrival as Director i wanted to test her mettle and sent her a link to a contact in UK who was prepared to give us a 12 month trial on a great site which provides quality teacher and student resources as well as forums for students to interact with others worldwide. It takes her six weeks to follow it up, and a further three weeks later, she has failed to utilise the opportunity.

I have done over a dozen “walk-thrus” and the bag is highly mixed. On two or three occasions i think she is finally getting there, clearly instructing Grade Five students on Excel with instructions on the whiteboard. On others, the kids are assing about whilst she is nattering with her friends over tea in the neighbouring Staff Lounge. On one occasion she was sleeping in one of the chairs! About a month ago i caught her violently manhandling a student for which i bollocked her out and issued her a formal a verbal warning.

Her Extra Curricular Activity is unsurprisingly “Computer Club” and the kids come in and do whatever they want. As does Ms Christian. I know for i have seen it first hand.

It’s 3pm on Friday afternoon and it’s time for my “Guitar Class” when my secretary calls me up to inform me there are some parents would like to see me. I apologise, but say they will have to make an appointment with me next week, or wait till 4pm after the class finishes. At 3.55 Lidya calls me again saying the parents are still waiting. I wind up the class and head downstairs to invite the couple up to my office.

The couple are clearly wealthy, dripping jewelry and accessories. Their daughter is in Grade Four and goes to Computer Club. She openly informs parents that she spent much of the class looking at pornography. Whilst i am aware that Ms Christian’s  supervision is invariably poor, and that the kids invariably have “Free Choice”, i am still somewhat flabbergasted that they are accessing completely inappropriate material. 

The parents inform me that their daughter is a canny user of the Internet at home, and always clears the browser history and deletes all cookies at home.

I apologise profusely informing them that whilst there has never been any blockers on our computer system at present, i wanted to introduce them urgently, although admittedly to stop my staff wasting their working hours on Facebook. I do cover myself well because we advertised to outsource all our ICT needs a couple of weeks ago and are interviewing our three selected candidates next week. Inwardly i’m fucking seething at Ms Christian and impatient to verbally savage her on Monday. Again. Her time at my school is now in The End Game.

Ms Christan does have a couple of other rivals to the “First One To Be Sacked” accolade. Ms Enatanesh, our eccentric Music Teacher who seems to pick and choose which lessons she will deliver, and her instructional delivery is  inconsistent. She has a face like a sour prune (not dissimilar to Ms Christian’s) and a law unto herself. Not surprisingly she is one of my Boss’ protiges. The final candidate for the accolade is Miss Senyait, our young PE teacher who has the social skills of a brain-damaged donkey and has already taken six sickies, invariably on a Friday or Monday. Frighteningly, once again she is a “special” friend of Boss. I have had to bollock her out on three separate occasions for running several of her classes from the comfort of a teacher’s chair.

Place your bets please:

Ms Christian 2 / 3 on

Ms Senyait   3 / 1

Ms Enatanesh 5 / 1

Miss Rakeb (Grade Three), Mr Ashenafi (Grade Three) both 8 / 1

10 / 1 bar