To think academics are seriously entitled??

I didnt say that. I was comparing a week with teaching in it. The other work gives you more autonomy.
Marking in HE 4 week deadline. Class of exams in school a week.

And you teach 3 days a week and do nothing else?

Yes

Are you still working as an academic?

I find it much more manageable than school.

Academics will be doing other work on the other two days though which you don’t seem
to be aware of.

You talk as though academics are teaching a maximum of 3 days and that’s it? You’re deliberately ignoring everything else the job involves.

Max 3 x days teaching vs 2 full days and 2 days of 4 lessons. I know which I prefer.

I think teaching as an academic will vary a lot. Timetabled sessions are fine if you have taught the material before and you can get away with an hour's prep to update/refresh. Unfortunately, I have brand new modules with zero content and zero prep time so it's like a rolling deadline every bloody week to try and stay a step ahead. I'm over allocation and have a lot of other people to support in various capacities with my responsibilities.

I don't know that comparing teaching in schools to teaching in HE is worthwhile. It's apples and oranges.

Academic also have lessons (lectures, seminars, labs) to deliver in a specific time slot Plenty of deadlines, short medium and long.

Not quite sure why you regard short deadlines as worse - if I’ve got three one-hour tasks to deliver by next Tuesday, or twelve one-hour tasks to deliver by next Friday the pressure and workload is the same.

Those aren’t deadlines though. They’re timetabled lessons which you know about in advance.

I dont have short deadlines like 5 x lessons per day anymore.

There’s no point comparing the two. They’re too different.
I’ve worked in schools and now as an academic and they are two very, very different jobs.

BTW academics also have short deadlines that can’t be moved 🤷‍♀️

Absolutely. Different pressures but more short deadlines that cant be moved in school.

Yes but teaching is only one aspect of the role. I’m a senior academic with leadership responsibilities. Im
teaching one module this academic year. I’ll still be working far more than my full time hours!

Academics are expected to do research, publish, supervise UG,PG and Doctoral students, carry out significant administrative tasks related to course and module leadership and get involved in a multitude of projects and committees.

Sure, but there’s no onus on secondary teachers to publish and disseminate peer-reviewed research, or ‘contribute to the future of the discipline.’

A full time academic. Teaching under and post grad is half the workload of a full time core secondary teacher.

Things have changed massively, like most sectors. Nearly all universities have had several rounds of redundancies over the last decade or so, which has got rid of the vast majority of the dead wood. The lazy academics just wouldn't have survived, certainly not where I work. I've had a chequered career, including several branches of nursing and several other sectors, and while academia provides some flexibility compared to e.g. nursing, the hours are longer, and the comparative pay is worse. And as I said earlier, the range of tasks we are expected to complete means we have a huge number of balls in the air, that can create huge workload peaks.

In my experience most people don't moan that much (certainly no worse than any other workplace) - they are passionate about what they do and want students to have a good experience. And I don't really recognise the widespread ego and entitlement - certainly not compared to consultants in hospitals. There's always a few (and we'll take the piss behind their backs), but generally people just seem to get on with stuff.

We now have strict rules for academic advisors and their personal students about how nany words advisors can feed back on, how often and when. Obviously the work can be discussed face to face.

There’s an increasing trend in creative writing MAs and MFAs for the student to be working on the third part of a giant fantasy/sci-fi saga for their project, but for them to casually send you the 100,000-word preceding instalment too ‘because otherwise you won’t understand the world building and backstory’.

Every single academic? Doubt it.

In my faculty most of us HAVE worked 'in the real world of work' and continue to do so as working at a university is still a real job!

When students email starting with 'Sorry to disturb your holiday but could you give me feedback on my 10, 000 word dissertation, deadline for submisdion is tomorrow' just because their term has ended...

You have apparently never taught a class of 19-year-old know-it-alls. I earned every single penny.

I was a teacher and now a researcher. Teachers definitely get paid more for the same amount of experience e.g. number of years post PhD or pgce.

I worked in academia for several years and most of the people I met there were the biggest bunch of work-shy, entitled whingers I've ever met!
TBH most of them wouldn't last 5 mins in the real world of work.
And JFI I have worked in the private sector and the public sector as well as academia.
Academics are by far the most self-pitying and tone deaf.