Can i, should i claim back childcare costs for next weeks Teachers strike ?

gregg1

haylibo wrote: »

That's not a bad wage but obviously everybody would always like a bit more .
And the holidays, which my teacher friends admit is a large draw to the job. Who else would like to be off for a quarter of the year?

well since you're asking, I'm sure most teachers would!

gregg1

Broken_hearted wrote: »

If you can't cope find a job you can do or better still try doing mine then you might realise what an easy life you do have.

She did not say she could not cope or could not do the job, merely correcting a few misconceptions about the role of teachers. How on earth do you arrive at the assumption that she has an easy life?

Lynxette

At the end of the day, you wouldn't attempt to sue the LEA for school holidays. Equally, you wouldn't attempt to sue the school for Teacher Development Days (Or the equivelent in your area). So why attempt to sue them for this? Your children are your responsibility, not the LEA's.

curtlyb

Lynxette wrote: »

.....................Teacher Development Days (.....................

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

aimee21j

curtlyb wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Can you explain?

benood

aimee21j wrote: »

I just wanted to pass comment on a few things that have been mentioned.I wished I was on that figure! Instead of just looking at the increases in 10 years for teaching, we need to look at figures for every similarly paid job to see if that comment is justified.
10 years is a long time and no job is guaranteed. In teaching, we have observations at least three times a year to assess our performance. I didn't get a golden hand shake or my student loan paid off...in fact I am still in the early stages of paying it off.

I thought that I would do as you suggested and looked at national statistics online to see what the overall increase in wages for the whole UK has been over the last 10 years - it's 28.1%. In that same period an experienced teacher at the top of the scale has had a pay increase of 60.8%.

To go on strike saying that you're only trying to keep up with everyone else is rather disingenuous, in my opinion.

Janepig

God, I'd bite my employer's hand off for a 2% pay rise - we're not even getting our incriments this year, much less a pay rise, plus we've just had a shed-load of voluntary redundancies and are now trying to manage the old "more work/less staff" juggling act. But I still wouldn't vote to go on strike (if and when our unions get around to sorting anything out), and despite the difficulties I wouldn't want to do any other job.

Maybe if teachers spent a bit less time whinging about what a hard time they get we'd all be a bit more sympathetic.

Jxx

curtlyb

aimee21j wrote: »

Can you explain?

sorry, just reminding myself of a good friend who is a headteacher making sure a teacher training day was planned for the Friday before a bank holiday so that he could go on a golfing weekend with a couple of other fellow teachers :rotfl::rotfl:

Apologies for not explaining properly, yes i realise you can now bank your training :rolleyes: and yes, in my eyes, he has let your profession down. This is also the guy who calculates his weekly 'hours worked' as being from opening the front door in the morning including lunch through to opening his front door at night. I've told him that the 1 1/2hr daily commute to work doesn't count but he's far too institutionalised to comprehend.

anonymousie

scrimpingbadger wrote: »

Pity the NUT couldn't have decided to strike on a friday!
(sorry - I don't know how to do the quote thing)

I agree - and I'm striking. Not happy about losing a day's pay over it though.


Please be assured that both non NUT staff and NUT staff will probably spend the day catching up with paperwork.

Timing is a bit poo though as the UNISON lot (some TAs etc) are on strike 23rd leading to some school closures as well.

This is on top of the schools that are shut for the local elections 1/5 as well:mad:

Fortunately DH is a non NUT teacher so not striking BUT his school is closed- so he will be in catching up on paperwork and prep and our 9yr old DD2 will be sorting pencils, sticking new labels on drawers, checking the book boxes are all in the correct bands and lots of really important stuff that helps the class run more smoothly.

Fortunately the other 2 are big enough to fend for themselves.

BTW we have not yet had any offocial info as to whether any of the 3 kids 3 different schools will be shut!

I am lucky I know- to have to take 3 days holiday in 2 weeks just to cover school closure would be a nightmare for an employee (I am self employed and it would be worse- the load falls on my partners and that makes me very unpopular!)

anonymousie

scrimpingbadger wrote: »

No - I didn't get a golden handshake - they are for subjects in shortage - and I am unaware of the terms of those. Golden handshakes are commonplace in the commercial sector and why should it not also be in education? Do they get criticised? No.

No - I didn't get my student loans written off. I'm still paying them off from 9 years ago!!

Yes - I'm well paid. I studied hard. I work hard now. Teaching is a rewarding and enjoyable job but hard work. You have a crack at controlling 30 kids at a time for 7 hours a day and SEE IF YOU'RE NOT EMOTIONALLY DRAINED.

As for holidays - well, you just come and look at the paperwork and marking here. I do it EVERY NIGHT. So yeah, I reckon that would probably make up the time we get for holidays.

Jealous maybe?

ITA "short hours, long holidays" try living with a teacher and you'd soon know the reality!!

(Or alternatively be the child of a teacher or 2 as I am- my parents have retired now but even as a kid in the '70s I knew they worked bl**dy hard, as, like Dh are/were always ill at the start of every holiday- a kind of "rebound" from keeping going all term.