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teachers - what aspect of going back are you dreading the most?

57 replies

minishiteboard · 26/08/2025 15:27

( even if you like your job)

I am dreading sitting in the chuffing hall all day where they tell us the latest shitnitiative they have come up with

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TaborlinTheGreat · 26/08/2025 18:56

I always kind of look forward to going back, but the fresh start feeling only lasts about 2 days! What I'm not looking forward to is the amount of bollocks that will bd packed into the one INSET day. At previous schools we usually had either one or two INSET days and then a day when only Y7 and Y12 were in. Under our new Head at this school, it's one day then all kids in 😫

EndofDaze · 26/08/2025 18:54

minishiteboard · 26/08/2025 15:27

( even if you like your job)

I am dreading sitting in the chuffing hall all day where they tell us the latest shitnitiative they have come up with

Ease the boredom with a couple of rounds of bullshit bingo?

MrsHamlet · 26/08/2025 18:50

minishiteboard · 26/08/2025 15:27

( even if you like your job)

I am dreading sitting in the chuffing hall all day where they tell us the latest shitnitiative they have come up with

This. By people who teach less in a week than the rest of us in a day.

FourTop · 26/08/2025 15:54

The relentless pace. Log on, get ready for six lessons in a row rush to briefing, try not to be late to tutor, battle the 'one way' system, try to have to starter ready on the board and be at the door to greet, take the register in the first two minutes, manage behaviour, distribute resources, explain, question, check, model, circulate, dismiss, try to have to starter on the board and also be at the door to greet and repeat until 3:15pm. Sort everything (behaviour / marking etc.) from that day, head to CPD and after that finally prepare everything (planning / resources etc. for the next day.

Temporaryname158 · 26/08/2025 15:52

Being stuck indoors all day. I’ve enjoyed the summer and spent most of it outside all day. I always find it claustrophobic when I return in September

PotteringAlonggotkickedoutandhadtoreregister · 26/08/2025 15:42

Getting up
wearing proper clothes 😂

mnahmnah · 26/08/2025 15:39

Seeing a certain member of my department who threw me under the bus last term and I now cannot stand to be near. I don’t know how I am going to get through working with them anymore, let alone manage them. They turned a place I loved working into somewhere I now feel anxious about and uncomfortable.