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The Lowbottom High Diaries

From a corner of the staffroom (just by the tea urn and the photocopier), somewhere in middle Melbourne, teacher Trevor Diogenes chronicles life in the whiteboard jungle that is Lowbottom High.

Lowbottom High Diaries: See how they grow

Tuesday, 22 July 2008 0

After two weeks on holiday, it becomes plain that a change has been wrought in our charges in the interim. Trevor Diogenes grows wistful.

Lowbottom High Diaries: He is Only Doing His Job

Friday, 20 June 2008 0

In a government school the Daily Organiser is the (sometimes reluctant) tyrant to whose iron will we must bend like reeds, writes Trevor Diogenes.

Lowbottom High Diaries: Hell is a pile of exam papers perpetually replenished

Friday, 13 June 2008 2

Like Scylla and Charybdis, the double bane of the Odyssean wanderer, exam correction is forever twinned with report writing, writes Trevor Diogenes.

Lowbottom High diaries: Reports! Reckoning is at hand

Friday, 6 June 2008 4

Yes, it is report writing time again. Trevor Diogenes applies himself to the task.

Lowbottom High diaries: Teaching Types #2

Friday, 23 May 2008 0

There are fresh additions to the Lowbottom High staff room. Trevor Diogenes watches their progress.

Lowbottom diaries: An excursion in prose

Friday, 16 May 2008 7

Graffiti, an excursion, all in prose. From one average school high school teacher to you. By Trevor Diogenes.

Lowbottom diaries: a pay deal sealed with a kiss

Friday, 9 May 2008 1

News came through that we were to become the highest paid teachers in the land. Trevor Diogenes surveys the staffroom.

Lowbottom High diaries: All's VEL that ends VEL

Friday, 2 May 2008 0

Pupil-free days can be the path to valuable insight, writes Trevor Diogenes.

Lowbottom High diaries: Teacher types #1 - the untouchable relief teachers

Thursday, 24 April 2008 4

Spare a thought for the relief teacher because very few of us full-timers do, writes Trevor Diogenes.

Lowbottom High diaries: Like Oberon, teachers are invisible

Friday, 18 April 2008 0

That teachers feature not at all on the list of professions that Australians trust is most deflating, writes Trevor Diogenes.

Lowbottom High diaries: Boredom in the Common Room

Friday, 11 April 2008 1

Is boredom prevalent in the teaching profession? Trevor Diogenes investigates.

Lowbottom High diaries: 12 weeks without parole

Friday, 4 April 2008 0

A long term looms, for Lowbottom High's Trevor Diogenes

Lowbottom High diaries: End of term, the crow caws

Thursday, 20 March 2008 0

The crows are gathered in the Tyburn tree outside the general office so it must be the end of term, writes Trevor Diogenes.

Lowbottom High diaries: The Seven Week Itch

Friday, 14 March 2008 0

If at term’s beginning one’s teaching allotment had all the alarming possibilities of a first date, we are now well into that period of a relationship where familiarity breeds contempt, writes Trevor Diogenes.

Lowbottom High diaries: The enigma of Space

Friday, 7 March 2008 0

Space is big. Really big. Unless we are speaking of that galactic anomaly the government teacher’s staffroom, writes Trevor Diogenes.

Lowbottom High diaries: constructing a sound argument, a How To

Friday, 29 February 2008 0

Now, children, we come to that part of the course which deals with critical analysis. Can anyone tell me what we look for in a sound argument? To win it? Touche, Tarquin, we’ll make a debater of you yet.

Lowbottom High diaries: Diogenes goes to the swimming carnival

Friday, 22 February 2008 2

The annual swimming carnival is a time when the sports faculty is free to run the school something very like a Maoist re-education camp, writes Trevor Diogenes.

Lowbottom High diaries: Diogenes strikes

Friday, 15 February 2008 0

It has to be said that as a revolutionary class, the thousands of schoolteachers filing into Melbourne Park’s Vodafone Arena for the purpose of being pumped and primed by the leaders of their industrial union, were rather unconvincing, writes secondary teacher Trevor Diogenes.

Lowbottom High diaries: the dark science of subsidy

Friday, 8 February 2008 2

Every Friday, Crikey's mole by the microwave in a middle suburban state high staffroom will document the ins and outs of the sometimes rewarding, always underpaid, often challenging life of the secondary teacher.

The Lowbottom High diaries: Rule one - never smile before Easter

Friday, 1 February 2008 1

Every Friday Crikey's mole by the microwave in a middle suburban state high staffroom will document the ins and outs of the sometimes rewarding, always underpaid, often challenging life of the secondary teacher.


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