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madetomeasure
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I do have to laugh the way in all the soaps these people just walk into jobs. So Whitney gets the TA post which lots of people would have applied for. The stringent selection procedures that take place for the teaching profession especially around safeguarding and she just happens to get the job. Then there's the level 3 qualification you're meant to have. CRB/DBS Checks all around her background - this is just bullshit. It was the same when Mas just walked into it.
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and walked back out again :rolleyes:
It really annoys me when that happens in soaps.
I hope she eventually becomes a full Teacher and makes a big success of her life.
Yes, it is high time we had another one of those classic Whitney plots
Good post, Keeki. I agree.
Whitney shouldn't be working on that job, she needs sacked from it and put on the market.
She'll probably get the Heads job when Ava leaves!
What is very odd is Lauren's college, one minute she is totally done with it and failed and dropped out, working in Beauty, then that goes belly up and she suddenly has a 'project' to work on for college? o.o
Abi's endless exams and 'biology practicals' are dumb too.
Whitney is young and full of her own importance. She does seem to love children and she could have potential once she gets her ego under control and learns not to take it personally when a child challenges her. Unfortunately she's not getting the proper guidance from Ava. Ava is the one who needs sacking. There are many reasons children Dennis' age act out which require intervention: abuse or neglect, anger, stress, learning difficulties, poor socialisation skills, psychiatric disorders etc. Instead of trying to find the reason for Dennis' behaviour so he can get the appropriate support she has written him off because she doesn't like him or his mother. Ava is a negligent teacher and should not be working with children.
I agree, we didn't even see Mas study for any qualifications that would even get him a Classroom Assistant job, let alone a TA! He just walked into it and then threw it in and went back to being a Postie!
Have we actually seen Whitney working towards hers? I know she worked in the community centre (and she could use that to go in at entry level), but to get the qualifications to be a TA she would have had to go to College for at least 3 years to obtain the level 3 (1 year for level 2 and 2 years for the level 3 diploma),
Speaking from personal experience, here schools are very cliquey envorioments and it' not what you know it's who know.
I can vouch for that. I sort of just walked into my job because I knew several members of staff. BUT to be fair, it was a temporary (a year and a half) basis, which I am now to be interviewed for, to do the job permanently. If I were to get the permanent post, then I would have to go for the qualification. But it is just my personal experience.
Also, from my experience, its not just TAs who get a job based more on who you know. The deputy head on our school got the job more through who she knew. But this is just my experience of the school environment in general.
She'll be Headteacher this time next year.:)
And it's this type of attitude which has resulted in the acceptable misbehavior that now exists in all our schools.
Yes I agree with your post in that it's who you know - certainly is realistic to my own experience. However, it would have been good to show her NOT getting the job when Ava wasn't present at the interview. I found her announcing "I got the job" all quite unrealistic within the context they presented us with. It would have been better, imo, for her to have been unsuccessful and carried on applying
Thanks for your honesty. I am a fully qualified teacher having put myself through education as a mature student from the age of 21 to now 42. I find it really difficult to get a break because of not knowing anybody. When I have got jobs, I'm afraid if you're good these days, it's not wanted because some managers feel threatened. The last school I supplied cover for told me that 3 of their TA's had got their jobs through knowing somebody at the school; one told me "I haven't got no qualifications at all" all very sad now and it defeats the object of schools providing education in the first place
Mas just walked in and out of his post.
When Sadie introduced new beauty treatments to the Salon, Poppy went around practicing on her friends, aren't their exams etc (levels) you have to do before you can do treatments on people.
Also agree with the fm who mentioned Abi, she was still revising for her exams during the summer.
Hi Priscilla, yeah but I suppose they are, thinking about it, going by what happens now in the real world. I just know having been through the process myself that it's so strict the selection criteria that I find this s/l patronising.