Mrs Meldrum #153 full of scrunchies and bad decisions

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A lot of the time schools cant finalise themselves until super late anyway, especially where they are perhaps waiting on confirmation of probationers , teachers coming back from maternity leave, sick leave , filing vacancies , working through placement requests etc , it’s a massive jigsaw. But of course rebecca is onyl worried about herself
 
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That’s pretty genius, to be fair.

Most primaries in my area only have a one form intake, so there’s no changing.
What I found really interesting about the state sector is how often children move schools, even just within the area. (Yes, that’s probably very “overheard in Waitrose” but I just assumed unless you moved miles and miles away that you’d stay throughout your school career )
 
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Thought over sharing was out yet she’s just shared a photo of the family calendar? Make it make sense!
 
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You won’t get mixed in with other kids from other school here in Scotland, until you go to high school.

Scotland is Primary 1-7. For example my own youngest is at primary, each primary group has 2 classes (a and b) has been with the same class for p1 and p2, and based on the last email from school last week re class structure for next year it’s looking like my child will go into p3 with the exact same class of children.
If our school are likely to have a restructure they will send out a friendship form where we put names of friends.
However we and the teachers only find out class for next year a few days before school finished. Chatted about this exact thing at a parents evening, only the teachers taking p1 know already as they make nursery visits in advance for the incoming pupils.

High school S1-6 is a little different. At my eldest high school they mix more than I remember mixing in the early high school days.
But certainly now my eldest into s3 and has picked a subject, they don’t do a lot with with their registration class other than register for the day along with a few other core subjects they *have* to do.

Haven’t known anyone to have such anxiety about this in all my years of kids at school. Unless you are dealing with a bullying situation I’ve always found our primary school very accommodating and they know their pupils!
 
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She’s probably worried her kids will be in classes with kids from the affordable housing and she will have to be friendly with their parents who go to the affordable pub.
 
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She needs a job and then she can have a bit of perspective about what is important and stop stressing over really what is trivial in the grand scheme of things
 
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The senior system sounds the same as here and while primary is a bit different in terms of starting it’s not as wild as what I was expect for the anxiety Beggy has described.
 
You do in some councils.
 
She’ll be worried incase she gets an outspoken teacher who tells her the truth about her, and her little darlings.
 
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She’s probably worried her kids will be in classes with kids from the affordable housing and she will have to be friendly with their parents who go to the affordable pub.
This

She needs to remember she’s married to a bloke from Torry with a RFC tattoo
 
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I'm in the SE of Scotland, classes are rarely mixed and we found out our new teacher last week which was quite late.
 
I can’t believe that part of her insta story is her bleaching her bin!! I don’t think I can watch this shite anymore…..Is bin bleaching really insta worthy???? Ch***t almighty!!!
 
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Yep, exactly this. Teachers don’t have to give notice that they are leaving until May half term anyway (or at least that was the rule when I was teaching), so in a lot of cases, head teachers might not know which staff are going to be there next year until June and that’s before they even start working out who is going where. They can hardly tell parents before they know themselves .
 
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Doesn’t even make sense

Get a grip Binny and just busy yourself with your bin rather than fretting about nonsense.
 
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Thought she had brought out a supplement brand for a minute until I realised Mammoth Meldrum is never Happy
 
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Yes emailed out at 3:30 then put school answer machine on
 
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Take it that one day at home with P instead of school turned out to be inconvenient for Reb if she’s labelling people who home school as brave now
 
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