TL/DR: ECT colleague emotionally abusive to classes we share and I'm struggling to be around him at work
Hi, teacher here in a UK secondary school near Bristol. Anon because I can't be identified.
I'm a fairly new teacher at a great, supportive school. Our department has just hired a very inexperienced ECT. He passed his training during COVID and didn't have much classroom experience.
Long story short, he's not been doing well. My department is super supportive and try to help but he's quite arrogant and doesn't take advice on board. We share classes and last week the kids told me that he has called them all 'shit' at the subject and that they 'piss him off' on a regular basis. He told a really vulnerable child that 'no wonder no one likes her' and all the kids 'have got him into enough shit as it is'. I'm so angry and heartbroken for those kids who lack confidence in our subject. I told my HOD immediately after the lesson and she said that SLT are aware and I don't need to worry. I've also been told that I can't discuss it with my fellow teachers.
I understand it's being taken care of and that this is something that those higher up from me need to deal with but it just seems strange that our department needs to carry on and pretend nothing has happened. I'm so angry he said that to my students. I'm worried that he's doing it to other classes. I don't want to say hello or help him at work. Is it my professional duty to continue being pleasant and helpful to him? And to pretend nothing has happened? I can't stand being in the same room as him and it's making me dread going to work. I can't talk to anyone else at work about it either.
I know it shouldn't affect me so much but I'm so sad for the kids, particularly the vulnerable child. Is it normal to feel so emotionally protective of your class? Also, any SLT out there - is it normal for a teacher to behave as above and just continue to go around as normal?
Any pragmatic/practical advice on how to move forward would be really appreciated. I'm struggling to keep things professional when dealing with him.
I'm a layperson, so if I use an academic word wrong that's why (also feel free to correct me).
I ask because I'm becoming somewhat convinced of something like a neoplatonist however I know that that's not a very popular view among contemporary academic philosophers. I was advised to read Nietzsche's Birth Of Tragedy, which I have purchased but not yet read.
I would appreciate answers that give a broad contextualization before giving super detailed answers — as I said, I am a layperson and am not well-read in the canon or well-versed in the complex development of 20th century thought at all.
My cousin is a rather immature 14 year old girl and I was thinking of gifting her this book for Christmas. I read it a few years back myself, and I don't remember there being anything too inappropriate or mature, but I can't quite remember all the details.
I want to give her something that will open her mind a bit while still being really fun. She's still reading middlegrade so I'd like to introduce her to a bit more sophisticated literature without being too mature, and I think this fits the bill from what I remember.
Thoughts?
Not exact quote. I often feel this to be true. The rhetoric used to define others stems from fear. Members are unprepared to have sincere honest conversations due to the culture of fear that has been created.
I'm sure most people think technical analysis is a bunch of hooey, and although this is in fact true, there are enough people and algorithms that trade on technical analysis that it often fulfills itself prophetically. Elliot Wave theory is a good way of smoothing/averaging the various technical indicators into an overarching pattern that employs the phi ratio.
The phi ratio exists everywhere in nature:
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You get the idea. This also applies to human behavior, and since people know that it does, it further reinforces that it does, and that people behave according to that knowledge, thus further causing it to be so.
Elliot Wave theory looks like this:
https://preview.redd.it/bz9wjhjqpxg71.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=2ac4f0a5da3b811fc389725f290bce8a9503457f
There's a bunch of special rules and technical blah blah, but essentially price movement in markets tends to follow this pattern, though timing is quite variable.
Anyway, here's one interpretation of the current price action, using the previous peak this year as a template, on the 1 day scale:
https://preview.redd.it/dfebb1k6qxg71.png?width=1348&format=png&auto=webp&s=d92dc2292133dcc9444b9102f03dd3ea2460c944
And here it is on the 4hr, zoomed in on the current cycle:
https://preview.redd.it/a9z31c3bqxg71.png?width=1357&format=png&auto=webp&s=c0848df5c0ada4386efe3e4913f88faef14bc587
So there you have it. We should reach ~$3500-$3600 before correcting down toward ~$2500, to ultimately arrive around ~$5300 at some point late this year or early next year, if the same wave pattern continues.
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I'm in the US, I would say: towing companies, strip clubs, cheap used car lots, and pawn shops, among others.
Are there any circumstances where I can still tell my story so that the same doesn’t happen to others? Or am I fucked?
