School closures are snow joke

Pennylane

You're right Welshwoofs.

The standard of people entering the teaching profession has declined over the years. I would never have thought to query anything any of my teachers wrote. At one Parents Evening I raised the matter of spelling errors (from the teacher) in our home/school book. He shrugged and said "I am SO overworked & I don't have time to check and double check everything." I think that's a pathetic excuse because it is, after all, his craft or trade.:rolleyes:

I was at our local school recently where the teacher had labelled a display of the tinies Xmas pics. "Reindeer flying over rooves" and another time there was a notice on the parent/pupil board saying "we have had hoards of ideas about ...."

FatAndy

Welshwoofs wrote: »

I was being rather harsher than I would normally for the very reason that the poster is almost at the stage where he/she will be let loose to teach other people's children. If a teacher makes extremely basic errors over and over again they obviously won't be able to spot the same errors in their pupils' work, which will result in students leaving school with poor standards themselves.

The student with poor English skills will begin to apply for jobs at some stage and when they do they may well run into a hiring manager like me, someone who directs poorly spelt CVs and covering letters straight to the recycle bin.

If I were posting on an Internet forum stating that I was a teacher, or training to be a teacher, I'd make sure my writing was spot on to avoid any readers recoiling in horror at the thought their own children may end up under such tutelage.

Fully agree. If anyone posts comments on a public forum in which they appoint themselves as a representative of their profession, whatever that profession may be, then they should make an effort to avoid poor spelling and grammar. If you have a literacy problem then there's nothing to stop you typing your comments in Word and running a spell check before cutting and pasting your reply into MSE.

RobertoMoir

caut_1 wrote: »

In how many other industries do they work well over their contracted hours, work in their own time at weekends and how many go into work or do work at home during their holidays ?

With the greatest of respect, and speaking as someone else who works in the education sector, I really think that playing this card shows you've not got a lot of experience outside of education. Long hours, working from home at the weekends and so-on is more common than you obviously think.

My brother gave up teaching to move back into the business world a few years ago because the bureaucracy was doing his box in, and he now works longer hours in the evenings and weekends than he did as a teacher.

A lot of people who talk about teaching being a "9 to 3 job" clearly have never done it and are being unfair. That doesn't mean you have to make the same mistake in judging how their jobs work.

Belysh

Pennylane wrote: »

You're right Welshwoofs.

The standard of people entering the teaching profession has declined over the years. I would never have thought to query anything any of my teachers wrote. At one Parents Evening I raised the matter of spelling errors (from the teacher) in our home/school book. He shrugged and said "I am SO overworked & I don't have time to check and double check everything." I think that's a pathetic excuse because it is, after all, his craft or trade.:rolleyes:

I was at our local school recently where the teacher had labelled a display of the tinies Xmas pics. "Reindeer flying over rooves" and another time there was a notice on the parent/pupil board saying "we have had hoards of ideas about ...."

For once Pennylane I agree withe you !
This is totally unacceptable and (although my spelling is far from perfect) teachers should spell check everything when in school as children, especially the little ones, will pick up on things like that. You should complain to your headteacher and they should follow it up.
It is teachers like this that give us all a bad reputation :rolleyes:.

TheSaint_2

I had some pretty awful teachers in my day, i would'nt say there are any more or less bad ones in the profession now as there were 20 years ago.

But bringing it back on topic, I agree with the original point. It does appear that the schools are closing far too readily. When i was of school age my school closed maybe two or three times in during my childhood. Maybe it is down to H&S, or maybe its down to those "skiving teachers" as someon said. Either way we need to sort it out.

wallbash

maybe its down to those "skiving teachers" as someon said

Please , we covered that pages ago . Lets move on .
The snow has gone , and this thread should be closed.

mikey72

The snow's back on Wednesday.
:j:j:j
We can start all over again!

FatAndy

mikey72 wrote: »

The snow's back on Wednesday.
:j:j:j
We can start all over again!

If the snow comes anywhere near me I'm gonna pop a cap in it's !!! (whatever that means) :eek:.


Question for MSE - why can I not talk about a single donkey but I can talk about multiple donkeys?


!!! (as) noun

1. any of a number of horselike perissodactylous mammals (family Equidae) having long ears and a short mane, esp. the common wild !!! (Equus asinus) of Africa: donkeys and burros are domesticated asses: in fables the !!! is represented as obstinate and stupid
2. a stupid or silly person; fool

Etymology: ME asse < OE assa, assen: prob. < OIr assan or Welsh asyn, both < L asinus