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Post by Mari on Nov 15, 2012 21:07:08 GMT
If you can get work at 67. If I get a permanent position next year, it's going to be hard for them to kick me out. They need proof that I'm not functioning as I should.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 15, 2012 22:54:15 GMT
The bishop will not issue an open licence after 65, it is an annual one until 70 when the status changes to 'Permission to Officiate'. Stidpendiaries can therefore resign their livings any time between 65 and 70 but both stipendiaries and auxilliaries can continue to practice in a voluntary capacity so long as they have PTO as long as they have the capacity to do so.
The thing is that one does not stop being a priest because of old age: we call it indelibility 'once a priest always a priest' but being and doing are not the same thing. We are fortunate in the deanery in having a number of retired priests who are always willing to help out and share their experience - they are a terrific resource not least because they have time to offer!
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Post by tangent on Nov 16, 2012 0:40:36 GMT
If you can get work at 67. If I get a permanent position next year, it's going to be hard for them to kick me out. They need proof that I'm not functioning as I should. Yes, but only if your school remains solvent. My company did not.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 16, 2012 9:32:19 GMT
That is a strong indicator for working in the public sector: governments do not often go bust ... except in Argentina, Greece, Spain, Italy .....
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Post by tangent on Nov 16, 2012 11:36:57 GMT
Iceland.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 16, 2012 14:55:55 GMT
... watch this space ...
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 17, 2012 11:47:19 GMT
I was ticked this morning to notice that an acquaintance on one of the ferro-equinological sites I frequent has a new tagline:
'One small step for me, a giant leap sideways for crabkind'.
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Post by Mari on Nov 17, 2012 17:41:26 GMT
If I get a permanent position next year, it's going to be hard for them to kick me out. They need proof that I'm not functioning as I should. Yes, but only if your school remains solvent. My company did not. ah, true. They have quite a lot of money problems, but they can't at the moment fire someone who teaches most English classes. There are only 2 full time teachers. One of them is me.
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Post by tangent on Nov 17, 2012 19:43:26 GMT
Gosh, that sounds a little precarious.
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Post by Mari on Nov 17, 2012 21:14:54 GMT
Not really. Their first steps will be cutting overhead, closing buildings etc. as they are doing now. Then all the non-essential courses will be cut, only then will they get to me, but by that time it won't be a school anymore. My school is doing well by the way, but it's the larger organisation that has some issues.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 18, 2012 20:50:32 GMT
Is it part of some business or a public authority provider?
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 19, 2012 11:35:50 GMT
A nice quiet day today so I have settled down to some reading starting with the Crematorium Newsletter , rivetting. I see that the Mooseperson thread is rapidly catching up ... jolly good thing too!
A happy Moose is a ... erm ... Happy Moose? Er ......
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Post by Mari on Nov 19, 2012 17:16:45 GMT
Is it part of some business or a public authority provider? both. It's a waldorf school.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 20, 2012 11:19:29 GMT
Aha! With you now (we know them as Steiner Schools).
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Post by Shake on Nov 21, 2012 4:06:56 GMT
I also had to Google Waldorf schools.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2012 8:15:24 GMT
What the piggies do has an effect on us. We give them vegetables.
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Post by Shake on Nov 22, 2012 2:14:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2012 7:57:06 GMT
I missed a page. My last post is looking really odd now. Mari, I didn't know you were teaching at a Waldorf-school. There are lots of them in Germany. I'm not sure if I'd send my child there, though.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 22, 2012 10:55:25 GMT
I think the philosophy is fascinating and the young people who attend the Steiner-Waldorf school near us (it's not in the parish) are very confident and articulate ... except that they have a particular style of relating to others which youngsters who have not had a similar educational experience find difficult to cope with. That might be a feature of the particular school in question, not the Steiner method itself: the school gets good results in the International Bacc. but it might be argued that any school would do that given the degree of selectivity the school exercises over its entry - it is not part of the state system so essentially recruits children from prosperous articulate homes who might well otherwise have gone to a Grammar/Gymnasium type school or one of the local larger private schools.
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Post by tangent on Nov 22, 2012 12:59:06 GMT
Intake is certainly the key factor towards ensuring good results, unfortunately.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 22, 2012 16:17:39 GMT
Well of course it is - which is what makes the posturing of politicians about education outcomes so very foolish. You would think that it was obvious really but people are reluctant to face up to the implications for education expenditure.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 24, 2012 21:00:16 GMT
Well, a nice relaxed Saturday polishing up the sermon for tomorrow: quite a quiet day really, one mass, a baptism and a patronal festival mass in one of the village churches in the team (at which I only have to lead the intercessions). And no getting up at stupid o'clock either ....
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 25, 2012 10:05:35 GMT
I still woke up at 8:30, in spite of only going to sleep around 3:00. I don't know why my brain does this to itself! ...still beats a few days back when I only had 4 hours' sleep.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 25, 2012 16:40:39 GMT
It's nature's way of telling you to have a brain transplant .... have mine, I never use it ...
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 25, 2012 18:43:06 GMT
Took Honey out for a walk and when I got back I crashed out on the sofa, so have caught up to some extent. Sadly, it got dark soon after and there's still many hours left in the day to go. The next month or two are really depressing that way.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2012 18:47:52 GMT
I did some Christmas baking again today. I know I'm early, but once we're in England, I won't have a chance to do more baking.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 25, 2012 20:42:27 GMT
Sadly, it got dark soon after and there's still many hours left in the day to go. The next month or two are really depressing that way. I think the worst bit is when we get to the middle of January and do not see our homes in daylight on working days. On a brighter note, I have just won two eBay auctions ... a nice man in Lower Austria was selling off a couple of 1/43 water cranes made by a specialist supplier but at a far higher price than I was able to get them. Now all I have to do is to transmit the money from Mordor to BROe! I would not normally have thought of buying them because of the cost of these kind of artisinal products but this was a real bargain. Yippee!
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 25, 2012 23:12:11 GMT
At least in January, each day is lighter than the one before. At the moment it's still getting worse. I am glad there is Christmas in the middle to at least cheer things up a bit.
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Post by Mari on Nov 27, 2012 17:10:29 GMT
I think the philosophy is fascinating and the young people who attend the Steiner-Waldorf school near us (it's not in the parish) are very confident and articulate ... except that they have a particular style of relating to others which youngsters who have not had a similar educational experience find difficult to cope with. That might be a feature of the particular school in question, not the Steiner method itself: the school gets good results in the International Bacc. but it might be argued that any school would do that given the degree of selectivity the school exercises over its entry - it is not part of the state system so essentially recruits children from prosperous articulate homes who might well otherwise have gone to a Grammar/Gymnasium type school or one of the local larger private schools. Here that's not the case. My school is in the Dutch top 10 when it comes to results and that includes all secondary schools, including private ones (few as we have). We do not have selective intake though. I wish they would be a bit more selective. Now we have kids at levels way too high for them, or several kids with autism etc. in one class. It makes teaching really difficult. I do think I'd send my kids to a school like this one. They are so broadly educated and learn to truly be all of them while still conforming to the governmental demands on their diplomas and stuff. I will have to homeschool them when it comes to spelling, because they can't spell in any language, but other than that...
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 30, 2012 9:46:19 GMT
Well, here we are, St. Andrew's day - the last named saint's day of the liturgical year ... sparkly, purple time is almost upon us. But I must admit to feeling rather down at the moment, I have got to a stage with my research where I am back to crunching data instead of handling the big ideas - and it is the big ideas aspect of research that is really the most important. Still I have finished working through two of the bios of Apb. Davidson, the third one is vast and unwieldy and only for dipping into not reading as such.
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