Bringing Revolution to Private Tuition

I have been through about 15 hosts after 8 years of messing around with websites. All my websites have been disabled at least once – some of them 20 times. I have been through host after host – sometimes several simultaneously, trying to keep my websites up and updated, free from viruses, off spamlists and now I reckon I can give some valuable advice to anyone starting out with websites.
The most important tip is to avoid free hosts and get a top level domain like a .com or .org. you will be able to transfer these domains and host them anywhere. It is ok to start with a cheap shared hosting package from about $4 a month and come with built in one click website installers and security features. These servers are professionally maintained with the latest software and features and often offer unlimited bandwidth and disk space – in practice I have found they are limited to 40 gb a month bandwidth and 30 gb disk space. Next step up is a VPS or virtual private server. These are several accounts hosted on a single server, as opposed to several thousand on a shared server. The disk space is typically 50gb – 100gb and ram might be up to 3gb. You might get several dedicated core chips. I have never found a VPS to be better value than a shared host. A dedicated server is a better jump to make and offer a lot more options. What makes me hungry at the moment is speed. A dedicated server means you can install all your own software – much of it open source and free. On my home server I have ubuntu, which is a popular version of linux, very stable, and having ubuntu on a dedicated server too means that you can test solutions to your problems on one machine before you apply them on another.
What host you choose depends basically on what you want to do. Internet hosting is an international business and things illegal to do on the internet in one country may not be illegal in another. File-sharing sites, file hosting sites, music download sites, exam paper websites all manage to found homes on the internet though they are illegal in many countries and are even banned from being accessed, like pirate bay, though this can easily be circumvented via a proxy.
These websites are hosted offshore. The servers are more expensive but this is often the only option for such websites.
A website like freeecampapers.com has been up continuously for about 6 years without interruption on http://www.shinjiru.com
Freeexampapers hosts copyrighted exam papers and means that students avoid the need to pay up to three pounds a paper to a company like edexcel. The website obviously cannot be hosted in the UK or USA because of copyright issues.

It seems to me that maths teachers are sick more often than teachers of other subjects. Often I hear of maths teachers taking a week or a month or even a year off work and being taught from a book by a teacher whose specialist subject is not maths. This wouldn’t happen in geography, with so many geography teachers terrified to take a sickie, with so many geography graduates looking for a job.

I used not to be able to access several of my favourite websites in libtaries, like freeexampapers.com or freeetextbooks.com or demonoid.me.
Now I can access the first two of these. The last time I checked, the websites I could not access in schools could also not be accessed in libraries.
Have schools changed the sites they block? A site like freeexampapers should not be blocked anywhere.

It cost £6 and some shoelaces to make this sandwichboard.

Extremely low. As a trainee teacher years ago, I had to take a gcse intermediate paper – though I had a maths degree, which most other teachers didn’t.
The lowest mark that a trainee got and was allowed to continue the course was 15%. Incidentally, I was never interested in becoming a teacher – too much paperwork and hassle. I just wanted the money to buy a yacht.

Parents are turning into psychopaths on the sidelines as they abuse the referee, the opposing side and even their own children from the sidelines of school football matches. Given the madness surrounding the whole game of football, maybe that could be understood, but even during swimming races and sports days, parents turned into frustrated back seat athletes.
Some parents have been banned from attending school sports events, and some children may be, because of their parents.
School sports are not fun anymore.

The case of Nida Ul-Naseer is tragic, with possibly more tragedy to come. The 18 year old just wanted to go to university, but wad unable to because her parents were refugees, and home office rules rules out children of refugees going to university.
Now the teenager is missing, fate unknown.
Hopefully this stupid policy will come under some scrutiny.

The average UK adult is worth at maths than a primary school pupil. They cannot read a bank statement or understand their electricity bill.
Being bad at maths is how people excuse themselves from certain things, even as simple as working out change.
People can make this excuse now because so much is automated. Bills are paid by direct debit or added up as items are read by a till. Then there is celebrity culture, promoting the stupidest, tackiest, foulest to superstardom as they work out how to keep themselves in the media as they constantly emphasise their total lack of any sort of intelligence at all.
Even cabinet ministets are excused their inability to do maths. David Blunket, then education secretary, once laughed of his inability to multiply seven by eight. An example to us all.