What do we all do??

misskool

carolt wrote: »

Just realised that misskool's post shows the dangers of parts of posts being quoted out of context - my original post did make it clear I was talking about tutoring my daughter for the 11+, not about teaching generally, which I agree is a skilled job - not one I'd want to walk into without training. Not that you couldn't do it, but you wouldn't do it as well.

Apologies, I was standing up for teachers.

I'm in higher education so get the knock on effects when they haven't been taught well.

penguin83

SingleSue wrote: »

My youngest wants to be a teacher...not sure how well that will work out bearing in mind he is complex autistic and can't cope being in a full sized classroom, people talking to him or everyone having their attention on him!

My autistic son wants to be a yellow dinosaur - not too sure how he will manage that one!

I am a Civil Servant (boo hiss) working for HMCS dealing with repossessions, bailiffs, charging orders and bankruptcy (more boo hiss!) x x

NoDebtForMe_2

happymumto2 wrote: »

I am a midwife, and despite a national shortage of us, and a real shortage in my area they are not refilling posts and have talked of job cuts in the near future.
The job cuts is a new thing as we won our appeal for the new grading system, which means we are owed 5 years back pay, so they are now threatening our jobs as they say they cannot afford to pay us!

In my trust they have just recruited 25 newly qualified midwives over a period of 8 months and have another 12 up for grabs.
im not sure if this worries me or delights me to be honest as I am in my second year of a midwifery degree and it either means things are looking up for jobs or there wont be any as they have done the recruiting.
hope things pick up in your trust.
sarah

Cleaver

penguin83 wrote: »

My autistic son wants to be a yellow dinosaur - not too sure how he will manage that one!

There are a variety of substances available that may help him achieve this, albeit temporarily. I suggest you contact one of the many nurses who are posting on this thread who might sort you out.

fc123

carolt wrote: »

Interesting.

I've both thought of doing that ie employing one for my dd, now 9, and also of sodding that, and doing it myself, and if I'm any good at it, charging other people £35/hour. It's not my area of education at all, though I did come top in English at the entrance exam for my grammar school (now frequently no.1 in the UK league tables), so I must have had a reasonable idea of what to do when I was 11, if I can remember what it was.

Can't be that difficult to teach, surely. And the advantages of getting into a good secondary school are such that many people probably feel £35/hour is cheap.

It's a great big S London suburban game.
We border a borough with grammar schools that do really well.
Our own borough used to be the 3rd or 4th worst performimg one in UK IIRC, some years back. In London, it was always at the bottom, fighting it out with a couple of other boroughs over the river.

We, personally, didn't go down that route for DD, not for any other reason than I never got around to thinking about it until it was too late.

Son went private when he was 8 after a few probs in his state primary and got a handy 25% discount. Paying was always a struggle but it suited him.... he then just continued there until 18.

She would be 11 when he left, so, we would never do 2 sets of fees at the same time. The last year of her primary, I found out loads of the kids were being tutored up to PASS the test...like training to answer questions about shapes and symbols (verbal reasoning and non verbal reasoning??).

When I was a kid, we didn't even know the test was a big deal, just one of those things you just did...never any of this tutoring.

DD school didn't approve of the test and if you wanted to do it, you had to apply independently. DD sat it untutored and 'failed' by 6 marks....a lot less than some of her tutored mates, however, she's not the most academic of kids so, it was right that she wasn't schooled up for it but only in my HO.

However, it worried me and she had 4 hours of tuition to learn how to do the shapes questions.....and got a decent but average mark at the exam for same school as son. But then we moved.

There is a lot of demand depending on the area.

As we are now out of London, getting into the good state schools depends on where you live and that's that.....and even that didn't work as we rented next door to a half decent secondary and she couldn't get in. After 5 weeks of no school at age 11, we gave up and paid instead. She was upset at moving, OH wasn't well plus the rest and she took it almost personally.

She was offerred a really failing one several miles away.

The whole system really hacked me off TBH.

fc123

penguin83 wrote: »

I am a Civil Servant (boo hiss) working for HMCS dealing with repossessions, bailiffs, charging orders and bankruptcy (more boo hiss!) x x

Are you busier than normal?

oldMcDonald

fc123 wrote: »

Are you busier than normal?

fc123, are you trying to turn this thread into one about 'House Prices, the Economy & Recession'?

lethal0r

im a self-employed website developer / marketer who is starting to hate [STRIKE]google[/STRIKE] skynet and is not making much money at the moment.

to relax* I come on these forums and I pray that I wont spend the rest of my life typing dribble into a keyboard.

*this is a joke.

carolt

mitchaa wrote: »

Just to put £35ph into perspective, you would need to be earning circa £70k

I dont think teachers earn even half this amount unless we are talking about deputy/school heads.

I can make over £35 an hour in private classes - but that's per contact hour, and doesn't include preparation time etc. And I don't do it full-time!

A full-time teacher doesn't actually teach 35-40 contact hours - you'd collapse from exhaustion. You need time for preparation, marking etc, or you'd have nothing to teach, or what you did teach would be a load of rubbish.

So a bit tricky to compare to jobs where you just walk in and do it.

mitchaa

What are average teacher earnings, hours and holidays?

Do teachers get the same 13wks off per year the same as children, or do they have to work even though the children are not in school? Training, preparation etc?