Does it grind your gears when people who work at schools send memes around about teachers?

Teacher here and you’re being utterly unreasonable! If someone even works in a school building they’d recognise how funny some of these teacher memes are and would be absolutely welcome to post them. And as a teaching assistant who actually work with children, of course they can post these. It does sound like you don’t like the person in question and are trying to add to your list of complaints about them as this does seem a ridiculous whinge.

Surely the OP can't be a teacher because an actual teacher would not think this was unreasonable. Teachers know that TAs are valued and that a lot of them are doing the work of a teacher.

I think the OP is a parent whose child goes to a school where another parent is a TA but is posting these memes and the OP doesn't like her and thinks she should be brought down a peg or two.

No.
Sorry but no.
I was a TA for 16 years before my head asked me to do a teaching qualification.
TA ing is a hard job, and I would have left education long before now if I was still doing it. But it is not being an assistant teacher, it is not comparable - there are a hundred things I do as a teacher that a TA would never dream of doing, there are a hundred things I did as a TA that teachers who have ever been TAs don’t even know need doing let alone do them.
There are and always will be completely different jobs requiring a completely different skill set.

In answer to the OPs original question- I don’t care who posts what memes, why would you?

Can we see an example of one of these memes?

But they aren't assistant teachers, they are the teacher's assistant...

I wouldn't think anything other than "fair enough". Teachers and TAs work bloody hard and I'm sure they are all delighted to have reached the end of term.

We're about to lose loads of our TAs to redundancy and it's awful.

Chill out, it's just because it's similar and relevant

I'm a TA, considering I regularly teach is it ok to post , or am I getting above my station again?

Do I have your permission Miss?

It couldn't possibly be that they commiserate with their (teaching) coworkers , could it?

@NotSayingImBatman

i think (for what it's worth) that Teaching Assustant is the correct name, they are supposed to be there to enable the teacher to teach. Problem is schools using them as Assistant Teachers.

@BehindTheSequinsandStilettos

I'm not a TA, no skin in the game, but completely agree with you.

@Whatistherightanswer

oh dear, are the minions getting above their station??

@Whatistherightanswer if someone is getting pissed off with that, I would think that they have something else on their plate or some other issue going on. And if someone got pissed off at me for posting a meme like you described, I wouldn’t take it on board.

I can't see anything wrong with this at all? She knows how hard it is to be a teacher and she's expressing that - it sounds supportive to me?

Yes. It did grind my gears as these memes were posted by a TA who was not as committed to the job as she could have been. Poor time keeping and early finishes. She had been given support but things remained the same. No understanding of assessment, planning or responsibility for progress.

This is why they need a job title change, they’re Assistant Teachers, not teaching assistants.

Are you a teacher getting sniffy about it because a TA doesn't have QTS that you have worked for/don't have to do planning, reports, the same directed hours/deal with parents etc?

Or are you a TA who has seen a relatable meme and wants to post it, but doesn't feel able to because it says teacher and not TA and you don't feel worthy because you are "just" a TA?

Ewww those TAs getting above their station indeed!! You should remind them frequently that they are simply not on the level of an actual teacher in case they get any further ideas.

What’s wrong with that? No, I don’t think it’s reasonable to get pissed off with a TA or anyone else who isn’t a teacher posting this kind of meme. People are allowed to acknowledge how hard some professions are without working in that profession. For example just because you don’t work as a doctor doesn’t mean that you can’t post a meme about how it’s hard work being a doctor.

And on a side note, I personally don’t think that the word teacher only refers to those in the teaching profession. Anyone who is teaching anything at all is being a teacher. For example a guitar teacher doesn’t have to have a teaching degree to be called a guitar teacher. They just have to be teaching people how to play the guitar.

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/teacher

teacher
/ˈtiːtʃɚ/
noun
plural teachers
[count]
: a person or thing that teaches something

Literally wouldn’t cross my mind to think anything about it. We all work hard and are a team.

Are you insinuating that they are fronting as a teacher on their social media when they are merely an unworthy TA?

They are either expressing empathy for you or they are being used far too much to cover PPA!
What grinds my gears is how undervalued, underappreciated and underpaid LSAs are, by every sod - including their colleagues.

Can’t say I have the energy to police what other people put online.

So they’re not offensive memes? Not mocking teaching but supporting it?
Can’t say I’d think anything of them at all.
I can’t really work out what the issue is.

I’d think they were acknowledging how hard it is to be a teacher? Anyone who works within a school will see it firsthand. Plus Teaching Assistants work damn hard too!