School closed. You have to make the time up in holidays!

All these teachers banging on about about 'free childcare' are really getting on my wick. You're getting £25,000pa plus a gold plated pension, by what definition do you consider your services to be 'free'?

I'm not a "free" childcare provider either!!! I charge like other do!!

I am a teacher and took full advantage of the 'snow day(s)' by spending quality time with my two children who were both off school due to snow days. I see this as home tuition delivering a creative curriculum! Oh - then I marked 30 stories written by 11 year olds (2 sides of A4 each), then marked 34 Maths books, then 32 Science books and planned for the next day or two on how we could catch up on the missed lessons...

Outside of this - I am an employee and I was told to go home and then NOT to come in by my employer - I think I am more than at liberty to do what I want with this time - not my fault the management shut the school. Think people should realise this - it isn't upto the teacher - its the head who decides.
Now, if school was open and I chose not to go in...surley depends on the individuals circumstance and police advice?

Furthermore, the POLICE ASKED our head to shut early and advised us not to travel (and other people too) unless an emergency. Are we supposed to go against this advice? Interesting argument from some of you.
Before I'm told about the real world...I haven't always been a teacher - I was an IT consultant for 14 years, and when in IT, I was forced home on a snow day - and I worked remotely from home - because I could. Difficult to do this as a teacher isn't it?!?!?
Never judge someone till you have walked a mile in their shoes is a good saying.

Juicyloo wrote: »

The very nature of the job is that you cannot work from home

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So 8- 5 is that not normal!!!!!

Firstly - 50% of my job is done at home - the other 50% is spent in front of the children. So yes, i can work from home. If I didn't work from home, children simply would not get taught, that is a fact. My bank of resources are almost useless after the year is up so i have to adapt every resource for EVERY individual pupil in that class. And this takes a lot of hard work and time.

Secondly - i WISH my job was 8 - 5. I would be laughing all the way to the bank. But I chose teaching, I enjoy being with the children, and missing those days for school days has caused no end of trouble, i have had to ask pupils to come back tomorrow night to make up their hour that was missed as they have an exam on thurs, and luckily they are happy to do this even though!

As for working my "contracted" 195 days - I do that. And then some. but unfortunately in this case the children were not there for those snow days. I will be sure to make those days up in the holidays, as would be in anyway -

I just don't see how we can make up the holidays WITH the children in school - holidays may have been booked for some staff etc.

If teacher's have it so easy, then join us! we need more teachers, there's a shortage, especially in the core areas.

This is not a debate about the intricasies of teaching- just that teachers should not be paid for taking days off and should make time up- my daughter has an a-level psychology exam on Wednesday- has she been affected? has she been studying all over christmas-?do teaching 'proffessionals' care?- to use the word lightly, liking even more time off does it help her situation- NO- she is committed! No sympoathy whatsoever

Ha ha and of course A levels were so much harder back in your day! I am assuming that you have taken a recent A level so your comparison is fair! Shall I ring my parents and ask if I can be born earlier so that my A levels mean somthing in your eyes. Young people these days might as well drink on the streets if modern education means nothing to your generation.