The unemployment rate for 16-23 year olds is the highest it's been in a generation in the UK, with record numbers of university graduates and school levers going straight on the doll. Even though this feels like a fairly recent news story, caused by raised tuition fees and extensive cuts implamented or planned by the fairly new coalition government, it really has been a growing problem for many years now. I graduated university in the year 2009, which, at the time, was considered the worst…

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I am sitting at an inservice at my job and breakfast was prepared for us.  As we were all about to get up to eat one of the employees stands up and asks if we could have Mr. ________ say a prayer before we eat.  She also "excused her feeling of necessaty for the prayer because some people don't like it but she just had to."  So, Mr. __________ asked everybody to bow there heads in prayer.  Everybody did that I could see except for me looking around the room at all the followers and thinking…

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Okay, so it's not teaching Science or History or anything where I can really counteract any of the bizarre brainwashing of society by religious institutions.



But this is now officially the blog of a bona-fide high school Theatre teacher!



Interviewed this morning. Got offered the job this afternoon. Fill out paperwork and get the keys to my theatre some time next week, and then the real work begins!



This is HUGE for me and my family both as my first "real" career-type… Continue

You know how when you fall in love, you just want to tell everyone? To shout it from the rooftops? It's so exciting and fresh, and you want everyone to know. That's some of what I'm feeling right now. I stated in my "about me" section that I am a new atheist. It feels a lot like falling in love. I want to tell everyone! I want everyone to know what I've discovered so they can discover it too! But, exclaiming my realization that religion is a bunch of baloney won't garner the same response as… Continue

About 2 months ago I participate in an examination for a governmental job there were many participant for position that I had booked fortunately I was successful in competition with 30 – 40 people. that examination included two parts : an specific questions which were computer related (my field)and general questions. This part were mostly religious and politic questions!!

My score in both parts were great. About one month ago they announced the result and I became glad until a few days ago… Continue