As a retired teacher from the US, I loved this video. I retired early because of similar issues. I didn't know my sisters and brothers across the pond were suffering in similar fashion. So sorry for all of us. Great, great, great performance.
I don't know of ANY teachers who haven't taken early retirement here "across the pond". They are almost entirely WORTHLESS, UNSAKEABLE & over stocked with women. In short, they're in it for a soft life, salary, too many holidays, abysmal standards, Left wing everything, discrimination of boys, course work over exams, entitlement & arrogance. My grandfather, born in 1903, was born in grinding poverty in Mayo, Ireland. A candlelit cottage and exacting discipline got him a Headmastership there. He spent 4 hours per weekday night marking exercise books, 8 hours on the weekend. He was a teacher for idealism, duty, unbending standards and honour. He would be destroyed today for this. Teachers have produced the generations that are destroying the West from within. Your surprise that Europe/UuGreat Britain the Disunited Queendom has replicated America's terminally diseased outlook on education is typical of unaware Yanks. You Yanks infect and corrode EVERYTHING. PS: The Internet is being used here. It's a British invention.
Spot on! Reminds me of the old teacher joke...."What's the difference between a cosmetic surgeon and an OFSTED inspector? One tucks up features,the other....."
Absolutely fabulous-so very true. The delivery is fantastic. I've been laughing my socks off. Retired after teaching for 39 years. Struggling to share it on FB though.
I absolutely love this video. It came after a very hard week of a pre OFSTED OFSTED which had the staff in tears and not of laughter either! However, this has brought tears of joy. Thank you.
I was sent this song a few days ago and as a teacher I have to admit AND confess that this funny song hilariously conceals the true side of the teacher's profession! It's even worse nowadays!
In light of the tragic death of a headteacher recently, this song screams so much truth about how it is like for teachers and what they have to put up with. Hopefully, there is change as a result, but it shouldn't have been allowed to get to that position in the first place. First and foremost teachers - and pupils/students - are people, not robots with input and output. That just part of the problems due to OFSTED. Bravo to FA for this ditty.
Amazing voice, amazing lyrics and can see that these professionals love to take the rise out of the establishment, are not sour faced, serious establishment droids
Love Fascinating Aida. First heard 'Cheap Flights' - inspired, and then 'Dogging' and OFTSED. Just brilliant. Would love to go to a gig whilst they're on tour. Magic.
They are brilliant live. I had the privilege of catch one of their dates in Cape Town a few years back. Also got to chat a bit after the show and get my "Cheap Flights" souvenir DVD autographed. I play it regularly. It's a hoot every time
@@AECEntertainment Yes - see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%C3%A8le_Anderson; I presume she doesn't want to make anything of it, so I don't mention it unless, as here, it's relevant.
I’m sending this to my deputy head tomorrow! I’m working in a ‘Requires Improvement’ school but thanks to this coronavirus shit, we’re going to miss our monitoring visit. At least something positive has come out of this!
What a great song and so true. I am also retired after 35 years and my decision to finish 18 months early had nothing to do with children who were great for the full time I taught. Many teachers are getting out at the first opportunity and are a big loss to our children's future. What I don't understand is why the government don't seem to spot these problems
Retired Kiwi teacher here. For us this whole micro-management of teachers and bureaucratic notions of “teaching excellence” started in 1989 and has been going on ever since. I gave it away in 1995 when, frankly, they’d taken the joy out of teaching, were assessing kids to death, demanding ever more paperwork and endless after school meetings. They had also put a sinking lid on school budgets and staffing ratios. When I first started teaching, secondary schools were collegial places. There was hierarchy, of course, but you were treated as a professional partner in a joint enterprise. These days teachers are trusted by management about as much as a Walmart check out operator is trusted with their cash box.
As someone who taught at universities for decades, and had to lead preparations for the university versions of these inspections, I fully identify with these sentiments! (Even if we came out OK!)
I've judged Mr Gove and decided that he requires improvement. It took me less than 20 minutes to realise this too!!! Maybe I should become an inspector.
I don't think I've ever heard as clear a diction as this - clearer even than Julie Andrews: there is absolutely no need for the captions! And in a patter song too.
Just a thought. Maybe the 'captions' are to assist people for whom English is not their 1st language. Or possibly for the hearing impaired. It must be wonderful to live in your world, where anyone who is not exactly like you has no reason to exist. FYI - diction is not countable, ergo one cannot hear "such A clear diction". One simply hears 'such clear diction' - or enunciation.
My sister in law is being slammed with work here in the upper midwest as well as managing elderly parents. Her phone is constantly buzzing. We'll be relieved when she retires because we don't want this stress to effect her health. Thank God she's sharp as a tack and can maneuver quickly
Just back from the Infants school where I'm a governor and which is undergoing the second day of an Ofsted inspection. God forbid that any governor - a voluntary role, Mr Gove, by the way - should have a paying job and a life which might prevent them from knowing and understanding every single aspect of the school! So thank you FA for cheering me up.
@@06kohlert Who was at one point culture secretary - and on one memorable morning, the inevitable Spoonerism was committed by not one but two well-known radio voices!
Very funny! My son's school is just having an inspection and my mother is a retired teacher so I can see things from two points of view. Probably nobody except the government can ever see things from Ofsted's pov!
My sister has just retired from being a special needs teacher, her weekends and holidays were almost wholly taken up with weekly/monthly reports for idiots who would never read them and couldn't understand them if they did! Get rid of these PC tossers and let our teachers get back to doing what they trained for which isn't justifying someones' cushy billet in central government.
Sue Harvey I am sorry but the people want socialism and this is what they get in return they cannot complain. What did they think was going to happen when new labour came to power. And then new conservatives.
you realise that the opitome of these values are in the privately sponsored Academies. So stupid linking bureaucracy and politics to a populist socialism that doesn't exist.
I have a special needs son and so I love all special needs teachers. Your sister has done something really worth while. Be proud that she was there on the front line, where it counts. But I agree with your sentiment.
I am a retired teacher (Physics, 32 years). This brilliant song is absolutely true. Wilshaw is out of touch and out of his depth; he should not be in charge of a major government body. He taught in the classroom for a minimal amount of time many years ago before going into management, thus having no idea whatsoever of the current challenges facing classroom teachers. His idea of an outstanding lesson is not mine. OFSTED needs abolishing with immediate effect - it is unfit for purpose.
The difficulty with teaching as a profession is that politicians who want to make a name for themselves love becoming Education Minister, because they can shuffle everything about, faff about with the curriculum, re-stack the furniture, bring in a new examination system, make everybody jump through new and bigger hoops, achieve precisely sod all and still move up their own particular greasy parliamentary pole.
Got to know my students in new school. Was told had to sit with them in total silence in 'detention'. Did Spike Milligan (Feck that) and we did more work in detention than in the class! Give kids a chance for the Love of God and teachers? Very Much So. All my 'bunked off' students passed every exam ... well done them.
This is about right. The primary I attended is in special measures and OFSTED visited recently. They started gushing about the sports clubs. Which the head cancelled months ago
