Cyberprog
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Afraid you might learn something?COVID UPDATE. The snot sample didn’t have any traces so I am allowed back out!! The thought of home schooling for 2 weeks had me worried more than the potential problem of having COVID!!
TiltyShaun
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I have learnt phonics in the last 3 years!! Never needed them before!!Afraid you might learn something?
Grahams
Don't complain - suggest what's better
You say that jokingly, but when my daughter was doing GCSE maths she asked for a bit of help and I thought now problem, I did A level maths back in the day. No chance of the difficult bits, I had to google how to do it. There are such high expectations of children now. They are trying for 100% and instead of just learning the subject they learn how each paper is marked so they answer the question, not only with the right answer, but in the way to maximise the marks.Afraid you might learn something?
Cyberprog
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I feel your pain. That said, I have used very, very little of what I learnt at school in my day to day job, save perhaps some basic concepts from economics such as economies of scale and such.
I don't understand why we teach this stuff if kids aren't going to use it?
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
back in my day, we were subjected to Mathematics, arithmetic, trigonometry, algebra & geometry, all as separate subjects, with equally separate exams ... could never 'get' the point back then ... but have used a lot of what I was taught, daily, throughout my working life and still do ..... similarly English language and English literature were separate .. and taught 'properly' .. none of this 'close enough' tish, that is killing the language and the art of using it correctly, properly punctuated !!
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Furniss
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Imagine when your daughter asks for help in French not just the one subject but the lot is in French
not just the one subject but the lot is in French
Grahams
Don't complain - suggest what's better
Luckily for me she is really good at languages so never needed my hinderence.Imagine when your daughter asks for help in French
Having reread it I see what you mean - at school in France. She should get a good grade in their equivalent of English GCSE. I think I might pass on French literature though.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
then she's a very lucky girl to be fluent in two of the most universal languages there are .... can get by in most parts of the world with one or t'other. The French had an empire like us and their language, or a version of it is pretty wide spreadImagine when your daughter asks for help in French
but yeh .. can imagine that's a bit of a
moment
Grahams
Don't complain - suggest what's better
I found my old log book the other day. The joys of logarithums when you had to look up tables rather than press a button.back in my day, we were subjected to Mathematics, trigonometry, algebra & geometry, all as separate subjects, with equally separate exams ... could never 'get' the point back then ... but have used a lot of what I was taught, daily, throughout my working life and still do ..... similarly English language and English literature were separate .. and taught 'properly' .. none of this 'close enough' tish, that is killing the language and the art of using it correctly, properly punctuated !!
English language and literature are still two subjects or at least they were where my daughter went.
Furniss
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Shes doing her Baccalauréat next year , and is doing really well - she is top or among the top in french which always makes me smile, because we speak mainly english at home so she is or at least was disadvantaged in the beginning....but its a real mix spoken nowadays in our house .....english/french, a few yorkshire expressions/words mixed in
and even the odd bits of Breton 
Confuses her mates from time to time
Cyberprog
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I was quite good at french until I met my secondary school french teacher. Right bastard he was.
I know just enough french to get by, luckily I also know how to look stuff up
Weird thing was I was at a market with H a few years ago, and I was able to understand roughly what the lady at the stall was saying and could roughly translate that for H, but couldn't get much back the other way!
I know just enough french to get by, luckily I also know how to look stuff up
Weird thing was I was at a market with H a few years ago, and I was able to understand roughly what the lady at the stall was saying and could roughly translate that for H, but couldn't get much back the other way!
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Monkeybusiness
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My mate was shagging our French teacher - it only came to light after we all left school!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
comes with vocabulary....and the more time you spend there the better the vocab gets ... the more you think in FrenchI was quite good at french until I met my secondary school french teacher. Right bastard he was.
I know just enough french to get by, luckily I also know how to look stuff up
Weird thing was I was at a market with H a few years ago, and I was able to understand roughly what the lady at the stall was saying and could roughly translate that for H, but couldn't get much back the other way!
Cyberprog
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Agreed. Must try and get over there next year, or failing that at least 2022!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
ditto ... for several weeks after all this sh1t ...
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
we had a very shag-able German teacher .... hardly the language of love though, is it .... not aware of anyone I knew getting extra 'tuition' though
Furniss
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My mate married his teacher FFSwe had a very shag-able German teacher .... hardly the language of love though, is it .... not aware of anyone I knew getting extra 'tuition' though
what a going on 
Lancs Lad
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Coronavirus: Londoners 'must stick to rules' amid tier 3 fears
Rising Covid-19 cases, especially in outer boroughs, could see tighter restrictions imposed.
www.bbc.co.uk
Routy56
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Here is Essex we are in Tier 2
BUT a few larger towns no where near us have the rates of infection going up
The review due on 16th December could see us go into Tier 3
BUT a few larger towns no where near us have the rates of infection going up
The review due on 16th December could see us go into Tier 3
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
I had a (teacher) mate who married a pupil, when she finished school .... had been seeing each other secretly for years (with her parent's blessing) .... still very happily married 35+ years on ..... most of his colleagues thought he was gay, with no 'known' female in his life ... had a hell of a shockMy mate married his teacher FFS
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