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Snowflake teachers.
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peter_the_piper wrote: »Equally important to good teachers is good parenting, helping with the homework, reading, maths etc. Not everything can be placed on teachers shoulders.
DD starts for work at 07.30 and gets home at 05.30, 5 days a week, cooks dinner then spends another hour or two (and time weekends)with homework, plans, letters etc. Don't complain about teachers until you've spent a week doing their job.
Both my daughter and her husband are very senior teachers. Their days are long and stressful and they have no breaks either. There is always some issue or other to deal with. They both work well into the evening and at weekends. They go into school during the holidays on some days.
I genuinely do not know how they do what they do. Long years of study (they both have Masters which they achieved whilst working) plus professional advancement qualifications to achieve their status within school.
Then they are called lazy snowflakes by people who have no idea what they’re talking about.0 -
Both my daughter and her husband are very senior teachers. Their days are long and stressful and they have no breaks either. There is always some issue or other to deal with. They both work well into the evening and at weekends. They go into school during the holidays on some days.
I genuinely do not know how they do what they do. Long years of study (they both have Masters which they achieved whilst working) plus professional advancement qualifications to achieve their status within school.
Then they are called lazy snowflakes by people who have no idea what they’re talking about.
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In hindsight I think my own two missed out because of my commitment to the job and the work load as an English teacher in a highly successful comprehensive school.Member #14 of SKI-ers club
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ThumbRemote wrote: »Possibly the worst suggestion anyone has ever made on these boards.
Can you imagine being a teacher and meeting the kids you teach when you're out shopping? Or even worse, their parents? Especially the ones who would (at best) think this was the ideal time to have an impromptu parents evening. Or at worst the ones with some sort of grievance against something you'd done.
Or even worse, living close enough to a secondary school so the children could find out where you lived?
And presumably in more deprived areas the schools would just carry on without teachers, if they couldn't find any willing to move nearby. Some teachers already work in quite challenging schools, insisting the move into the area would kill a school off immediately.
My parents have teacher neighbours and one works for a school opposite end of the county and the other works in a neighbouring county.
They chose to work further away as to keep their working and outside work worlds separate.
I can see some gobby mouth mother who thinks the world of their bratty children have a shouting match at a teacher if bumped into them in a shop outside schoolThis is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
Mrs V is a teacher. I have the opinion that the OP will be THE first to sue should Little Johnny slip on ice.The man without a signature.0
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In the 50's I walked to school through deep snow which fell inside my wellingtons. The classroom was heated by pipes running along the skirting boards . We draped our wet coats, hats, socks etc on them and put our wellies beside them to dry for the journey home.
We made slides in the playground which we took turns to slide down. As time went on it got more and more slippy . Nobody shouted health and safety or warned us we could break and arm or a leg if we fell.
Nobody sued the school if we did.
Oh, they were tough times.0 -
ScarletMarble wrote: »My parents have teacher neighbours and one works for a school opposite end of the county and the other works in a neighbouring county.
They chose to work further away as to keep their working and outside work worlds separate.
I can see some gobby mouth mother who thinks the world of their bratty children have a shouting match at a teacher if bumped into them in a shop outside school
I lived and worked in the catchment area. We moved there for the kids to go to a good school. I joined them a year later.
It's a big school, with a large catchment area. Lots of teachers have their own kids there. Maybe the sign of a good school ?
Never trouble when out and about, although I know one unpopular teacher did.Member #14 of SKI-ers club
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...Nobody shouted health and safety or warned us we could break and arm or a leg if we fell. ...
We looked at the bigger benefits of children being able to climb trees as part of our risk assessment/review ... and changed nothing. Most of the parents have been great and supportive.0 -
I really don't know whether schools should remain open or close during the snow. It's all relative. What I would mention is an interesting conversation I had recently with a resident of Wisconsin who was over here visiting a friend of mine.
She made a remark that there is snow and then there is SNOW. She was referring to the huge amounts of guaranteed, annual snowfall in her part of America. I asked her if schools close because of it and she said that a few sometimes close, but generally the majority stay open. I pointed out to her that a lot of schools in Britain close and in most cases it is probably due to health and safety reasons.
Her response made me laugh because she said 'ah yes but your snow is more dangerous than ours!!
The heavy snow in Northern USA/Canada is drier, thicker and very powdery. So if you walk to school there's less chance of slipping. She had noticed that when it snows in this country it's often around 0c so it becomes wet and slippery. That wetness overnight at say -2c will turn to ice. Hence more dangerous to navigate.0 -
Its a difficult issue. On the one hand it is frustrating that we can't keep schools open, but on the other I can see how in today's society it is easier to close them.
But mostly attitudes like those of the OP anger me FAR more than any health and safety culture. Utterly ridiculous.0 -
I've been at DS' place in New Jersey through a few winter snowfalls now.
I can assure you that schools in the tri-state area, New York, NJ and Rhode Island, do close. Lists run along the bottom of the TV screen.
Last year a head teacher from Rhode Island posted his announcement of YouTube. He sang School is Closed to the tune of Let it Go from Frozen. Brilliant! Sorry I can't do links on the iPad.
He's also started a bit of competition. Two Michigan school superintendents have posted 'It's a Snow Day' to the tune of Alleluia.Member #14 of SKI-ers club
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