Just Canals Forum

If any of you are members of the Canal World forum and have monitored it over the past months you will, no doubt, be aware of the significantly deteriorating attitudes of many members. The forum appears to now be more pre-occupied with slanging matches between users over petty things than boating and quite frankly I've had enough of it. The boaters have now been driven off leavign behind predominantly people who simply use the forum as a virtual social life, (given that they can't get a real one!) I know there are exceptions and some serious boaters are still 'hanging in there' but recently a new forum has been opened which is rapidly growing in popularity. It is well managed and I have cautioned the administrators to take a much stricter line on people who disagree with others in immature and aggressive ways. I have now registered and wouldencourage others to do the same in the hopes that the 'Just Canals' forum might develop into a serious boating discussion forum. Find it here.

Can I apologise in advance for the possible lack of posts over this coming week. This morning we had THE phone call - the one everyone in education dreads! Ofsted are in this Thursday and so life is becoming even more hectic than usual for a while. Must go - I have planning to do, marking to get up to date, policies to read or revise, assessment data to input, action plans to action, documents to read, statistics to update and familiarise - oh, and children to teach at some point!