The Power is in a "Click"

The Power is in a "Click"

10/2/2001

Never have I felt so powerful.

Sitting alone in front of the computer with all the futures of 16 year olds in my hands. With a "click" (actually more complicated than that, but "click" is more dramatic), I decide their futures. "click" and suddenly the screen lights up with A1s ...

Just got home from school and a long afternoon in front of the PC trying to work out the kind of marks that are respectable. Almost there and am quite pleased that most of the kids won't be going to BAD JCs because of ... moderation!

A schizophrenia of sorts. To be both examiner and teacher, marker and moderator. It's strange how seamlessly so many of us shuttle between the roles, marking, cursing and swearing then going to class and comforting and cajoling. It's a schizophrenia I haven't learnt to live with. Slows you down when you mark under the schiziod curse - you turn the paper over and over and over trying to give that last mark. Maybe IT IS good that we don't mark our own classes ... though as Mrs BL pointed out, as we were trying to 'fairly' apportion out Lit scripts "Hang on, You teach the whole lot anyway ..."

Well, pleased that I've finally done something useful on a PC this afternoon... which isn't saying much about this new addiction ... is it?