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		<title>An easy target</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s see if anyone can guess what I&#8217;m venting about without me actually naming the type of organisation that has brought on this rant. Ten Clues: 1.  They aren&#8217;t very good at answering the phone. 2.  When they ring you back you are always out.  This is often because they ring you at home even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ventbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111487&amp;post=19&amp;subd=ventbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rug up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers who are not able to marvel in the glories of Auckland television may wish to skip this post as unfortunately it will be rather nonsensical to you.  I wish they would stop.  Just stop.  The adverts.  The ones with the rugs.  Everytime I try to watch television they are there.  Often more than once in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ventbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111487&amp;post=38&amp;subd=ventbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>But I tell you who I really hate, and that&#8217;s those racists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people label teachers, in fact anyone involved in education, as hopelessly politically correct and lacking any ability to ever say anything that anyone might take offence at (unless they are &#8220;mainstream&#8221;, in other words heterosexual white men).  Not so, as this recent episode from the staffroom will show.  I was pretty unwell at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ventbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111487&amp;post=37&amp;subd=ventbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last term I was told that there were to be some special meetings for teachers working in my main curriculum area, part of some consultation about new unit standards.  Now at my school the job of organising and running meetings of this nature often falls on me for a few of the local secondaries, so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ventbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111487&amp;post=40&amp;subd=ventbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please don&#8217;t breed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Mr Individual made a startling announcement in the staffroom today &#8211; he has changed his mind and he wants to procreate at some point. If I hadn&#8217;t been standing when he made his public flip-flop I would have not only fallen off my chair, I would probably have ended up spasming on the floor in disbelief.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ventbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111487&amp;post=39&amp;subd=ventbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Estella redux</title>
		<link>http://ventbox.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/estella-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ventoletta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago I wrote about the death of my friendship with Estella.  I thought that writing about it would get it out of my head. Sadly it hasn&#8217;t. I still dream about Estella quite regularly.  I seem drawn to imagining what would happen if we encountered each other.  Would she apologise, or would she cut [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ventbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111487&amp;post=36&amp;subd=ventbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pushy parents on the sideline of life</title>
		<link>http://ventbox.wordpress.com/2006/07/15/pushy-parents-on-the-sideline-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 05:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know, I said I wasn&#8217;t going to write about the parents or the students, because I can rant about them in the staffroom at length.  I was (and still am) worried it could also jeopardize my anonymity, which must be avoided at all costs. But a general vent about the pushy ones [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ventbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111487&amp;post=16&amp;subd=ventbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just because there&#8217;s no school doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s a holiday</title>
		<link>http://ventbox.wordpress.com/2006/07/04/just-because-theres-no-school-doesnt-mean-its-a-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I meet people at a social engagement and they ask me what I do, I grit my teeth for the (almost) inevitable response to my reply.  Many people, when they hear the word &#8220;teacher&#8221;, seem to have an automated response in their head, which sometimes flows out of their mouth, along the lines of: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ventbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111487&amp;post=23&amp;subd=ventbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apologies for the irregular service</title>
		<link>http://ventbox.wordpress.com/2006/06/26/apologies-for-the-irregular-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This term has been total madness for me, but it&#39;s nearly over.&#160; The school holidays arrive at the end of this week and I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve ever needed them more in my teaching career.&#160; You can probably expect a veritable Niagara Falls of vents come term break, as long as the marking mountain doesn&#39;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ventbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111487&amp;post=35&amp;subd=ventbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those dreaded telephone calls</title>
		<link>http://ventbox.wordpress.com/2006/06/24/those-dreaded-telephone-calls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I loathe and detest tele-marketers.&#160;&#160; I know I shouldn&#39;t, they are just doing their job and few of them would do it for a living if they had other options.&#160; But honestly, every time the telephone rings between 5.30pm and 7.30pm I know it is probably going to be one of those painful &#34;Sorry but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ventbox.wordpress.com&amp;blog=111487&amp;post=22&amp;subd=ventbox&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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