What are teachers doing with their day on strike days?

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I was reading the strike thread earlier and it struck me that I haven’t seen any of the teachers sat outside school on a picket line etc as they would have been years ago. We’ve got 3 schools locally, all closed but no sign of picket lines.

So what are they doing with their days?

(not me I might add, a teacher I know who's on strike today)

No picketing was allowed in my school either.

I'm on strike. I used today to go to a medical appt far away so I wouldn't disrupt normal lessons - I had to find alternative childcare for my dd as her year group was closed. Tomorrow I will be at home marking coursework so I don't have to do it at the weekend.

Mostly working today in the hope that I might then get a free weekend - individual reviews and plans for all the children in my class with SEND needs (over 40% of the class). Planning for a specific curriculum day, prepping an assembly, general lesson and provision planning so that I can spend my PPA prepping the resources for the plans. Chasing up a cock-up over my tax code because for once I am able to make a phone call during normal office hours.
Couldn't get down to London as I'm at the other end of the country and DH is away with work this week. Tomorrow I will go on the local demo. As well as doing more planning related stuff.
I've also been doing a few bits of admin related to the (non-teaching) job that I am moving to soon because my mental health is really suffering.

I had days out in town. Drove through to see my DD at Uni, had lunch and catch ups. Made sure every day was lovely.

Chilling with my own DC whose schools were also closed. Not spending any money as I'm not being paid.

I went to the London March with a colleague. We waved flags, blew whistles, listened to the talks and walked 8 miles. This is my first day off this academic year (for strikes or illness) and I wanted to make it count.

We're on a strike in a different industry. It's been rainy so we've done the housework. Husband has just cut all the hair out of the roller on the Shark vacuum cleaner. I'm watching daytime TV now, but am going to make a mini roast dinner in a mo.

We mounted a picket line at school from 7am then got the train to London, walked from Waterloo to Hyde Park, joined the demonstration with 50,000 other teachers, marched to Trafalgar Square then walked back to Waterloo. Tomorrow we will have another picket line at school from 7am, then I have a rep's lunch to go to and a meeting afterwards to discuss next steps. I will be back in school on Friday, arriving about 7.15 then in class from 8.40 until 3pm with no PPA, then I have a meeting until 4pm. Then I'll prepare for next week. So being home early today (got back at 4.45) is a welcome break, and as I am not being paid I am not doing any school work or answering any school emails, nor will I tomorrow.

Good. They lost their pay for those days so should have been doing nothing.

What a goady question. Or a stupid one. You choose.

FYI - lots of them, along with a lot of civil servants and junior doctors, were at a demo in London today.

It was an excellent demo!

Solidarity✊

Are you asking what Junior Doctors are doing? Tube drivers?

Indeed.

Teaching my class as per usual. My union isn't striking.

Mainly sitting on my backside reading and watching Jeremy Hunt.

Went to Next. Appeared to have time travelled to the neon 80s. Beat a hasty retreat.

Went to the toilet when I wanted to.

it was a very passive aggressive question though, wasn't it.

Teachers are striking - withdrawing their labour - what they do in the time they are not in school is irrelevant, but it is a safe guess most of the m are marking/planning/ doing school admin OR looking after their own children OR on a demo or march.

That is blatantly obvious, so you are not asking the question because you want or need an answer, so why are you asking?

Ofsted? Also on strike.

My daughter teaches a year group that the school is open for ...just one year group are in ,so she's in teaching as she has for both the other strike day !

Those on strike should be on the picket line or marching. Same with the doctors - hardly any of them have been out and those that have were there for a very short time - it’s not a day off.

As they are not being paid they can do whatever they want. I don't really know why the OP is so puzzled about this one.

People on strike are withdrawing their labour. They can do whatever they want.

A strike is the very definition of a day off. Picketing is optional - if all the strikers pocketed my workplace they would be told to disperse on the grounds that there would be so many they'd block the road (which is a main thoroughfare).

I was in work, teaching my exam classes, as my union stuffed up the ballot.

Hope that sets your mind at ease, OP.

Kids aren't usually blatantly rude to all teachers about things they know they don't understand.

God help your child's teachers if this is how you feel about them and interact with them.