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?

Colleagues were on the march today. I went to the last one but today I volunteered to help on a trip for my son’s school as it was scuppered by the tube strikes. It’s also something I rarely get to do, seeing as I work full time.
Tomorrow I will be getting notes ready for up and coming parents evenings. I know I shouldn’t be doing any work at all but I’d rather do it tomorrow than at the weekend.

I didn't say that though, doing some work in evenings or weekends is bound to happen. But the idea that this week, on a very rare strike day, that there is no option but to work on the strike day or this weekend - I don't accept that. Should we just accept the crap workload and not try to draw boundaries and, at times, say "no"?

I’ve been in as I can’t afford the pay cut at the moment, but quite a few of my colleagues took mock marking home as we’re drowning in them currently with the last big push for Year 11.

Some are marching, one of the hardest working teachers I’ve ever worked with had plans for an extra long lie in and lunch out - I bloody hope she had it!!

The teachers I know have either joined more centralised marches or just stayed home. My sons seconday has a picket line of its own.

Here's an aerial view of the march in London, it really is quite spectacular. twitter.com/zdflondon/status/1636030945504509956?s=61&t=U9XrcF693-JpMxeIueYG7g

Not really reported on the news for some reason. Perhaps it's the Tories leaning on the BBC again.

I’m marking mocks

Wow, that video of the march certainly shows the strength of feeling behind this!

It was spectacular to be there! After a ten hour coach journey from Leeds and back, I am shattered today though and will be doing absolutely fuck all - if that’s okay with the OP, obvs.

No coaches laid on from here, no tubes, too old and creaky to walk the 10 miles in, or to struggle on the buses and then spend hours on my feet.
Retirement is still a few years off, I'm only mid 60s, got a few more years to go. Not all NEU members are young fit and strong.
I don't appreciate being told what I should be doing. I feel your assumptions are both ableist and ageist.

I joined the march yesterday, the huge one that had no mainstream media coverage. We think we're so much better than the countries with such controlling leaders that they even control the news that is shown, but we're just the same.

I'm having a chilled day today and listing stuff on vinted to try and make up the shortfall. Dreading going back tomorrow if I'm honest.

As it’s a day when we’re not working and not being paid, we can do what we like

Why should they?

They have lost a day's pay and a day's pension - they get to choose what they do with their time.