Teachers on Strike

greathat

goater78 wrote: »

I would do but only teaching in a top private school would pay more than I currently earn. They are obviously a lot more picky than state schools so it's harder to get a job.

If I restarted on a state school teachers salary I would be losing around £25k a year which I can't afford to do.

One of my plans is to try and retire at 50 and move into teaching for the easy life but I suspect my age would put schools off.

You are SO funny! Brilliant!

bylromarha

lindsaygalaxy wrote: »

Lol. brilliant. Goater78, don't forget, the easy job you are predicting will not only be a 25k pay drop for you, as you will have to reach that pay point. You will not be able to get there unless you teach outstanding lessons every time with all children making exceptional progress every lesson and all be above the national average. Tough luck if you have any children with special needs/EAL/ not attending due to parents not being bothered - it doesn't matter it will still be your fault. It is also 12 weeks not 16, all bank holidays are in the school breaks, you will then have to do training days which will take it down to 10 weeks. Then there is working every evening and weekend just to keep up, and the performance related pay. You will also need to be a social worker, health visitor and make-shift parent. You will be critised by someone every day of your career and told constantly you don't deserve to be paid. Then there will be the contant changes by goverment of what they want and what you have to do.

I hope you look forward to enjoying it. Also, please do go and practise teaching kids every subject in primary while being aged 70 - im sure it will be a hoot. Saying that you can now be fired within 6 weeks if you are not up to scratch, so better keep fit not. Which reminds me, you should stop having breaks and a lunch hour so you get ready for the changes. Also be at work by 7/7.30 so it is not such a shock to the system.

Don't be silly - did you not read his post? Only the top private schools will do for them to teach at.

Won't be slumming it with the rest of us stupidos teachers :rotfl:

lindsaygalaxy

My apologies, in which case he will have smaller classes and longer holidays, but longer school days including weekend teaching. Also, demenading parents who are paying a lot of money for their children's education - no pressure there then. Where as some parents see us just as free childcare.

jaydeeuk1

goater78 wrote: »

I work in IT and get paid 9-5pm. I usually work alot more than these hours. I don't see why Teaching is being treated like the only career where you are expected to do unpaid work outside the core working day.

The difference for me is that I don't get 16 weeks off work a year to recover!

I work in IT, I run and own a couple of companies (one jointly), for NHS and other Govt depts, regularly travelling, long meetings, working early hours to build test and configure servers and ensuring I can pay everyone their rather substantial salaries each month.
My wifes a teacher, and she works a hell of a lot longer and harder than I do (esp when she was full time), yet doesn't earn anywhere near. Its a sh*t job, and no amount of money or holidays would tempt me to do it.

Before I met my wife I too used to think teachers were lazy, rolling in at 9.00am hung over from night before, before sticking a DVD on for the kids and then p*ssing off at 3.15. Its only when you see what goes on beyond the classroom do you really understand the crap they get. The last year or two if I was a teacher I would have blasted an AK47 to most of the parents at the school gate, and especially that Gove chap, who seems like a right smug !!!!!!.

System

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

I work in IT, I run and own a couple of companies (one jointly), for NHS and other Govt depts, regularly travelling, long meetings, working early hours to build test and configure servers and ensuring I can pay everyone their rather substantial salaries each month.
My wifes a teacher, and she works a hell of a lot longer and harder than I do (esp when she was full time), yet doesn't earn anywhere near. Its a sh*t job, and no amount of money or holidays would tempt me to do it.

Before I met my wife I too used to think teachers were lazy, rolling in at 9.00am hung over from night before, before sticking a DVD on for the kids and then p*ssing off at 3.15. Its only when you see what goes on beyond the classroom do you really understand the crap they get. The last year or two if I was a teacher I would have blasted an AK47 to most of the parents at the school gate, and especially that Gove chap, who seems like a right smug !!!!!!.

As you seem to think all IT jobs are the same then it's obvious you don't work in IT and are just saying that you do to try and "prove" teaching is a harder job.

System

bylromarha wrote: »

Don't be silly - did you not read his post? Only the top private schools will do for them to teach at.

Won't be slumming it with the rest of us stupidos teachers :rotfl:

No I didn't say that. I said only the top private schools could offer me a comparable salary.

If I became a teacher I would happily work at a state school. It's obviously less demanding than a top private school but I unfortunately can't survive on a new teacher salary as I have several financial commitments that mean I need to earn a certain level of salary.

poet123

goater78 wrote: »

As you seem to think all IT jobs are the same then it's obvious you don't work in IT and are just saying that you do to try and "prove" teaching is a harder job.

Where has he said that?

Au contraire as Del Boy would say;) it it is you who seem to be clutching at straws.

System

poet123 wrote: »

Where has he said that?

Au contraire as Del Boy would say;) it it is you who seem to be clutching at straws.

Well he's said he works in IT and his wife who appears to be a part time teacher works harder than him. As I had already said I work in IT it appears too much of a coincidence that this argument has been used to refute me!

Are you a teacher?

bylromarha

goater78 wrote: »

As you seem to think all IT jobs are the same then it's obvious you don't work in IT and are just saying that you do to try and "prove" teaching is a harder job.

He's a very clued up non IT person then...

a quick search of his posts show an awful lot of IT knowledge.

But as an IT person, you've obviously already done that and deduced all his knowledge = a non expert.

What would I know? I'm only a teacher

System

bylromarha wrote: »

He's a very clued up non IT person then...

a quick search of his posts show an awful lot of IT knowledge.

But as an IT person, you've obviously already done that and deduced all his knowledge = a non expert.

What would I know? I'm only a teacher

I'm not going to read all his posts. I don't have the time to do that as I'm a busy man (unlike a teacher)