Susan turns around and flees in the other direction with Simon. They grin at escaping but Clare catches them. Clare: Susan! Would you mind taking 8F? Angie’s sick again.
Simon: They’re quite entertaining.
Susan: Bunch of retards. Good luck Susan.
Simon: Good luck Susan.

Susan opens a scary looking door, with frightening noises inside, while Simon walks of, grinning.

Bob: Simon! Simon!

Simon runs away, gets into his classroom full of kids and breathes a sigh of relief.

Simon: Morning scum!
Girl: Good weekend Simon?
Simon: Not bad at all thanks. Arnie, leave that till break. Party on Friday, film on Saturday, birthday yesterday.

General cries of happy birthday

Simon: Thank you very much. Anybody not here?
Kid: Me!
Jeremy: Sir have you managed to mark our English yet sir?
Simon: I just told you, it was my birthday

Kid: How old?
Simon: None of your business . Come on, somebody cheer me up.
Pauline: My mum said she’d give you one.
Simon: Well, that’s very generous, but I’ve never even laid eyes on her.
Other girl: You have, she whistled at you on Friday.
Simon: Your mother?
Pauline: And she’s single if you’re interested.
Simon: That was your mother?
Other girl: How come you’re not married Simon?
Simon: I’m way too young.
Everyone laughs and ‘yeah right’s. The bell rings.
Simon: What?

Everyone leaves except Jeremy, who takes his time putting everything into his pencil case.

Simon: Come on Jeremy.

He leaves too.

Cut to staff room.

Brian: Bob’s always got valium, if you’re desperate.
Kurt: And my year twelves can get you some smack, if you threaten them with suspension.
Susan: A cigarette’d do, thank you.
Kurt: But you’d have to inject it, because smoking’s banned
Simon: I fancy Pauline Young’s mother. That’s how old I am. I’ve started fancying the kid’s mothers.
Stephen: Don’t worry about it. Another ten years of teaching and you’ll go back to looking at the girls.
Simon: Why do I always fancy the most inappropriate people?
Brian: I thought you’d just met some girl you liked.
Simon: Nah, I’ve decided not to bother.
Kurt: She’s got two arms and two legs ain’t she?
Simon: Yeah, but I just don’t think I’m ready for a girlfriend. I wanna keep my options open for a bit.
Susan: What options? Oh yeah, I forgot. They’re queuing round the block.
Simon: I meet women. Women who fancy me. Sometimes.
Susan: ‘Course you do.
Liz: (shouting from the door) Simon, a friend here wants you. Says no one else will do.

A kid is peering around the staff room door

Kurt: It it’s another suicide attempt, tell him ‘he must try harder’.

Simon leaves

Susan holds up her pack of cigarettes.

Susan: Outside, now.

Brian and Kurt get up

Brian: I don’t even smoke.

He sits down again.

Maths is an extremely complex and complicated KLA, and technology can help us focus our attention on the more important aspects of the topic we are looking at as well as saving time and effort. I am extremely grateful that I never had to look up logs in a book/table at school. I just typed it into the calculator and the answer popped up. Graphics calculators are helping students now and in the future to save time with the sometimes overwhelming amounts of content and concepts they are expected to know. Technology like this, however, should be a learning tool and not a neccessity. Students should know roughly what many graphs look like, and not rely on the calculator to tell them.

Computers are evidently a vital part of the future and the present. Teachers should harness young people’s grasp on computers and other technology and use this in the classroom. Interactive websites and online maths games can stimulate interest and help students retain content; however, using computers in the classroom can be hard to manage due to students generally being more knowledgable about computers than their teachers. Students may hence become bored by the teacher’s instructions and move on to their own preferred type of amusement: rather than focusing on the maths, they are concentrating on the computer and what they can do with that.

Edublogs is way cooler than zunal.

Let us use this one.

It reminds me of my livejournal.