AIBU to ignore GCSE results queries during holidays before maternity leave?

If you wanted to not be available to perform your role in August you should have started your maternity leave at the end of term in July.

because you wanted to extend your mat leave and instead activate it from the first day of term in September, YABU to take this approach towards your GCSE students.

in previous summers you have always responded to reasonable GCSE queries August therefore you were fully aware of the expectation of your role in august

YABU

I find it really rude when posters don’t come back with responses / updates!

Only you know what your contract says .. but presumably your maternity doesn’t officially start until either you give birth or schools re-open.

I think in your shoes I would have responded straight away stating that you have no authority over remarks & that it is the HoD’s role so could they please direct their questions to him/her… OR you should’ve planned ahead and had a automatic response to all emails stating that you are now out of the office on holiday and then maternity leave until July 2027 and to please contact the HoD on (email address) - or however TEAMS works!

good luck with rest of pregnancy and birth. (If that’s not already happened)

Well done sounds like you love the job and do well at it, appreciate the benefits and don't moan about it ❤️

I’m an excellent teacher, always get strong exam results and great value added. I love my job but it absolutely is not a vocation. I chose it in my late twenties because first choice career was not panning out and as it happened I loved it and have been doing it for 30 years. I didn’t go into it to help children- it was far less altruistic than that and that’s fine. I don’t know why OP is getting flack - her HOD should e dealing with it at this stage.

So your not on maternity leave and you took a job as a teacher, teaching children who are at one of the pivotal moments in life and one of your students need a remark and they need your input to do so yet you feel somewhat hard done by.. please don't go back to teaching after you have your baby! I said what I said. Your not compassionate enough for the role.

Look up the meaning of vocation! It is no where linked to holy orders 🤣

It's not a competition or a race to the bottom. It's the reality of many jobs (some teaching jobs included), that there are restrictions on where you can use the toilet.

This isn't a unique or even unusual element of the job. I'd suspect that aside from office work, most jobs have restrictions on when you can use the toilet, even if they allow for a bit more access than teaching. Then there'll be other jobs where is is more extreme than teaching.

It's not a competition or a race to the bottom. It's the reality of many jobs (some teaching jobs included), that there are restrictions on where you can use the toilet.

This isn't a unique or even unusual element of the job. I'd suspect that aside from office work, most jobs have restrictions on when you can use the toilet, even if they allow for a bit more access than teaching. Then there'll be other jobs where is is more extreme than teaching.

And yet teachers will tell you they don’t get 13 weeks holiday…

You’re not on maternity leave so they were NBU to contact you. Being pregnant doesn’t impair your ability to support a student with a paper based activity - lots of women work right up to their due date.

You sound awkward and entitled.

I didn't realise it was a competition on who could hold out the longest. I was pointing out that the examples you gave were not tricky but impossible.

Nothing to do with other jobs.

I’ve already fielded about 6 emails while on holiday in Greece. However if I was in your position I would expect my HOD to deal with this. Can you put your email onto an automatic maternity leave message.

Yes, for limited blocks of time, in a shorter than average day.

There were certainly times in my previous job when it was equally impossible for me to go to the toilet from 9-1 and 2-5, and a struggle between 1-2. So similar to you, but slightly longer.

I'd categorise my own situation as being tricky for the loo and not impossible. So I'm using the same measure for you.

There are so many jobs this applies to.

I fully agree that other jobs have their issues. I've never said otherwise. But not being able to leave a class unattended doesn't make going to the toilet tricky, it makes it impossible in the examples you've given.

I've checked the post you must be referring to, and it's explicitly clear that I'm not talking about 'teachers' but a sizeable proportion of teachers. So no.

It's also their, not there.

Do you want to take your post back about teachers thinking that there role is unique?

Would you like to post your 8.37 post in context then so we can see how I got it totally wrong? Go ahead.

Others are just pointing out it's not just teachers that have to do this.

Your misreading is nothing to do with me.
But reread this and apply it to yourself.

As I posted, you don't have teh moral high ground here.

Says the person who made a glaring assumption, denied it, and when it was pointed it out, tries to invent a context that wasn't present.

You made an assumption, just own it.

Stress? Seriously….?

Comprehension clearly isn't something that you are good at.

Um I did.
I take it English isn't one of your subjects.

Well done, now post it in context and read it properly.

Remebering that you posted this

"I find it astonishing how often teachers think their role is so unique."

So don't pretend that you have some sort of moral high ground when you are posting made up rubbish

Yes, it's tricky.

The same way it is in many other jobs.

You at 08.37 this morning in relation to non teachers:

"Yet you get to go make a coffee, or the toilet as you want. Teachers do not
You are choosing (as many teachers do) to work through their lunch."

It's your own assumption 😂.