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    Mary Queen of Spots wrote:
    Graham Hartley wrote:
    "Whoever this person is should be locked away for their unbelievable stupidity."
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    All who correspond here should use their given names to aid the discovery of these utterly foolish, senseless people.
    I notice that you don't go so far as to reveal where you live! Clogmarch? wtf is that?
    'Clogmarch' is my reduction from the names of towns in Hyndburn: Clayton-le-Moors, Oswaldtwistle, Great Harwood others. I am not yet quite so soft in the head as to tell you and other nasties in which part of Clogmarch I live. When out I wear steel-toed boots and usually choose for company my large rescue Staffy who is very choosy about who gets close to his daddy. His grandfather was a great white shark, I fancy. In any case, when once we walked in darkness from Rishton to Great Harwood he was proof against two nasty humans with a 'pet' dog not on a lead.
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    A point: the relationship between some teachers and some pupils is akin to that between me and my Staffy, and that's good."
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Darwen teachers vote to strike over 'unruly' pupils

6:57pm Saturday 2nd April 2011 in Darwen Photograph of the Author By Nafeesa Shan , Reporter

STAFF at Darwen Vale High School are set to strike next week in a row over 'unruly' pupils.

The unions have revealed that staff at the Holden Fold school voted overwhelming to take action following a ballot.

They will now be protesting outside the school on Thursday.

If the strike goes ahead, the school will have to close.

NUT national executive and Blackburn with Darwen representative Simon Jones said: “Things haven’t improved.

"Whilst we have continued to meet with management, there has been no concrete movement.

“We are committed to working with man-agement between now and next week. We may reduce the action from a day to an hour.”

Unions said staff felt the school was ‘out of control’ and they were receiving several complaints each day from teachers.

John Girdley, NAS/UWT national executive and Lancashire representative, said: “We, the teachers, sincerely hope that changes can be implemented as a matter of urgency, by the schools management, in order to allow the staff of the school to continue to deliver the high standard of education which our pupils deserve.”

Darwen Vale headteacher Hilary Torpey, said: “We are still in discussion with the unions and hope that we can address these issues as quickly as possible to avoid any disruption to pupils, the school, and the wider school community.”

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In the ballot, around 95per cent of the 31 National Union of Teachers, or NUT, members voted in favour of the strike.

And around 66per cent of the 29 NAS/UWT members also voted to take strike action.

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