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School closed. You have to make the time up in holidays!
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Absolutly, Juicyloo but you are thinking we turn up at 9 and leave at 3. That is the problem, I do my job, I am not a manager and it is more and more dificult to enjoy. I am certainly grateful for my job. Thank you. But we to have been threatened with redundancy so younger and cheaper staff can be brought in. So it is not a job for life.0
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Are you referring to me penguin- have no kids at school myself anymore- just glad to be out of the comparative incompetence and get my kids out, since I went to grammar school the standards nowadays, and the lack is incredible.0
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Teacher-bashing is a national past time in Britain! Leave us alone! Whatever happens, we are damned if we do & damned if we don't. We seem to be blamed for all of society's ills.
My school has opened every day throughout the snow & ice and we have had parents complaining that we weren't shut & many keeping their children at home because 'it is too dangerous'. Our children have been kept indoors, safe, through playtime & lunchtime and although a little stir-crazy, we have faired OK. But the flack from parents has been quite amazing!
I love my job, am passionate about teaching and had done a 'proper' job in the pharmaceutical industry for 15yrs before retraining. Nothing I had ever done before comes anywhere close to teaching for: satisfaction, reward, making a difference, accountability, exhaustion, expectation, work-load or hours worked. It all goes with the job. Yes, we have CHOSEN to do this job but that doesn't mean it is an easy ride.0 -
In teaching there is such a thing as personalised learning, not every child is the same so lessons have to be changed every year. Also, you spend ages doing your weekly planning (which you have to do) and end up spending your evenings changing them because not every child has understood. If a teahcer wanted to go into school they can't if it is closed so it is not thier fault. Teachers also do not get paid for their overtime, which I can assure you they do everyday. How can you possibly comment on a job you do not do? Nothing is as easy as it looks and I promise that if you were a teacher you would love a snow day to get all the paper work done!0 -
Oh dear- do agree you have a lot of paperwork these days, and a lot of guidelines and a lot of inspections, guess it's not teachers to blame, just the system.
Good old fashioned free grammar school education taught me more than Latin.
Hee- so glad my kids are out of it- roll on the grandkids- never seen so much ineptitude in all my life- and these people have the future of the country in their hands!
Come back my old teachers- god bless0 -
Well if you think you can do the job better it must be home schooling for the grandkids
How will you teach them to count exactly? Would you like to borrow some of my lesson plans? 
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Do i misunderstand? Is paperwork supposed to be a good thing?0
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Oh dear- do agree you have a lot of paperwork these days, and a lot of guidelines and a lot of inspections, guess it's not teachers to blame, just the system.
Good old fashioned free grammar school education taught me more than Latin.
Hee- so glad my kids are out of it- roll on the grandkids- never seen so much ineptitude in all my life- and these people have the future of the country in their hands!
Come back my old teachers- god bless
Most of the ineptitude is within government - the folk who have never stepped into a classroom & have no clue how children learn, how best to teach and what motivates children (or teachers for that matter!). I am surrounded by amazingly talented colleagues who are frustrated at the 'prescribed by government' teaching we must deliver. The system stinks!
But ask any public sector employee and they will all say the same, I think. Decisions are made by people so far removed from the coal (or chalk) face that they really do not know what the hell goes on down here with the workers! Nor do they know what the end users (ie patients, children, parents... ALL of us) want or expect.0 -
Come back my old teachers- god bless
The teachers who probably would ignore you if you struggled (or possibly were only average) would tell your parents you would not amount to anything. But of course having attended grammar school, you would have been the sort of children deemed worthy of help. I'm sure that most of their planning was along the lines of 'work through this text book till the end'. We don't do that anymore. It does not work . So we do the best thing, not the easiest.0 -
This is not teacher bashing. I am a teacher, and I feel very strongly about this.
I know more than one teacher who has taken the "opportunity" of the snow to have a few extra days holiday. There should be some penalty to those who lie about not being able to get to school. I think it is disgusting. Schools budgets are tight and getting tighter. If teachers don't go in then the schools have to, not only pay the teacher who is off, but also pay a supply teacher to cover their classes. It is taking away from the children. How can they complain about low wages (which they are not anyway), and poor resources when they treat the school's money with such disregard.
I don't know the answer, but I know this sort of absence wastes seriously large quantities of cash.0
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