Teachers - most disliked profession on mumsnet?

[OhReally18]

In the last few days, I've seen a lot of teacher bashing on mumsnet. Even teachers giving other teachers a hard time. Seems like it could be one of the most disliked professions on mn. Is this a true reflection of how the rest of society feels?

I've been teaching in primary for a good few years and I have never experienced bad feelings towards teaching in real life, just on here and social media occasionally. Maybe the odd envious comment about holidays but that's it.

It's by no means harder than other professions but teachers are portrayed as lazy, moany, hard done by, ungrateful, the list goes on...
Is this fair? Surely it's no different to other professions?

They probably get similar treatment to midwives, and better than gp receptionists.

Not sure about mums net but my experience of teachers on other forums is generally not good and worsened during covid.

Every thread I've seen on mn in the past few days about the heat has involved teachers not wanting to work.

I do feel bad for them sometimes because clearly most teachers are doing their best in a difficult job but fuck me they don't half make things worse for themselves

And yeah I've seen far more bashing of public sector workers on mumsnet than teachers

Of course not! Social workers, GPS, gp receptionists, health visitors, nurses, all hated!

Being a good teacher is really hard these days. It's a complex and very challenging job. I respect many of my dc teachers and am grateful to them., it's an important role. I believe that the quality of school's SLT and governors is the deciding factor for a school being a great place for families. I know a few teacher who are on a power trip but they are very old fashioned and would love to still teach in the do as you're told days. These types of teachers can be toxic.

Ha ha I was going to say Doctors receptionists.
Recently I have been dropping off my GC at school. The teachers deserve a medal 🏅

teachers ive met in real life have on the whole been fine, however what gets me about the ones that post on mumsnet is that they seem to have no concept that other people work hard as well

Journalists. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a single compliment directed at my profession on here.

Social workers, hv and gp receptionists DEFINITELY get it worse on here.

I think Drs receptionists get a harder time in here. As do the police.

I haven't seen what I'd call teacher bashing - but I've seen lots of threads where people who claim to be teachers looking for any excuse not to go to work. Sometimes I think they're trolls trying to stir up bad feelings towards teachers.

In what way do we make things worse for ourselves? Do tell.

Nobody on here likes GPs. (I am one 🫣)

Agree but you forgot stepmum. Always the villain

"Teacher bashing" is much like the "First Wives Club" on MN - i.e. not a real thing but made up by posters who love to play the victim. The teachers on here whip up froth and then cry that people respond.

I don't like it when teacher posters pull the pity card.

Generally people on mumsnet are parents, parents have children in school we all have opinions on the things that impact our children and a sense of justice when things dont go the way we expect them too.

If this was a car enthusiasts website it would be traffic wardens or rip off garages etc.

It's a parenting forum so jobs related to parenting (teaching, HV, GPs, midwives, social workers etc) get talked about more. As with any thing in life, people talk more about it when they're unhappy than when they're happy, the result is a skewed negative towards anyone who works with/near children/mother's/families.

@cardibach

Threads like this.

Constant moaning about how much worse they have it than anyone else.

Never get a holiday, never get a day off.

Were more at risk of covid than any other job (despite that being demonstrably untrue)

Seemingly not liking kids much and acting as though parents should be eternally grateful they deign to teach them

During covid I saw posts from teachers saying things like hope you're going to be able to explain to your kid that they killed their teacher. Really grim stuff guilt tripping stuff

teachers ive met in real life have on the whole been fine, however what gets me about the ones that post on mumsnet is that they seem to have no concept that other people work hard as well

This. But genuinely never get this vibe in RL! Only from ones on mnet.

I guess if I was to think about other professions that I could potentially dislike, maybe traffic wardens and doctors receptionists but I've also come across some lovely ones so it's really unfair to paint everyone with the same brush.

Most people in any profession will have bad days, ill health (physical and mental) and other life stuff that might impact on their job at times. Isn't that just being human? It happens! However, teachers seem to get bashed for this more than most on mumsnet.

Being a good teacher is really hard these days. It's a complex and very challenging job.

Like loads of other jobs.

YABU.

no one hates teachers. But no one has sympathy to the teachers who come on here and moan about having to work. We all have to work in this heat.

I’m a gardener. If I don’t work I don’t get paid. Have you tried pruning 100 meters of bushes in 36 degrees?
Why do some teachers think they are any different to the rest of us?

amd as said. GP receptionists are def the most hated around here.

Re doctor receptionists, so many people can’t be wrong.

I‘ve never seen any other profession on here demand a whole sector of infrastructure/public services be closed down for weather.

I have parents that are ex teachers, so I am not anti teacher...having said that, I do find some teachers can be quite condescending/patronising in their manner when dealing with parents. I don't know if that's because they are used to talking to children and so speak to parents in the same manner, but it is a bit irksome.

Also there was a thread a week or so ago about some children being taken for a day out but not others. Rather than recognising that it is human nature for people to question why some were going and not others, there was haughtiness and condescension about how it was no parents business who was chosen, which goes down like a bucket of cold puke. It could easily have been handled by better (albeit vague) communication from the school, but schools (imo) quite often seem to talk to parents on a need to know (almost secretive) basis rather than open policy, which again, doesn't come across well