198. Should Teachers Model Healthy Eating? Plus Quickest ECT Quits, Ethical Issues & Zombie Outbreaks

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A teacher writes in asking if it is genuinely acceptable to eat biscuits and drink sugary drinks in front of children. Are teachers supposed to be role models when it comes to lunch, or can you have whatever you want in your packed lunch and not feel bad about it? Dylan and Hayden have thoughts.

Then a listener has been trying to get Dylan and Hayden to answer this for ages. Is teaching the most ethically dubious job in the world? Photocopying copyright violations, Disney Plus being streamed in classrooms when the licence says not for public use, the list goes on. Are teachers all walking around breaking rules constantly without realising?

What is the quickest you have seen someone start teaching and then quit? A listener once knew an ECT who left by the second week of term. Dylan and Hayden swap stories.

There is also a properly nerdy question about teaching publications. Does anyone still read the TES? Are the union magazines just bin material? Recommendations for the actual good podcasts, websites and reading for teachers who want to stay informed.

Plus the SEND support staff question. What is the value of lived experience versus a formal qualification?

And the most important question of all. What classroom item is the first you grab in a zombie outbreak?

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