to think that teachers should be a bit more bloody creative about Red Nose Day

[radiohelen]

I've been past four schools today and at all of them the kids are wearing their pyjamas to school... doing something funny for money! I think not.
Plus I was talking to a friend who said she'd had to go and buy new pyjamas for the occasion because her sons are all a bit small and while that's fine for at home it's not fine to send them to school in. Extra cost for her and then she had the nightmare of persuading her boy to wear pants under pyjamas... "you don't wear pants AND pyjamas mummy".
It sounds like a nightmare...
What about a gurnathon? A giant jelly contest? Making a funny black and white film. Writing an essay in alphabetti spaghetti. This is just off the top of my admittedly weird head....

you know someone is frantically clutching at her metaphorical straws when they say 'If it annoys you or upsets you - go read another thread.' - it's AIBU, you pillock - you asked, and you got!

Exactly. And you say you weren't rude - but your breathtaking arrogance was a lot worse than outright rudeness. It was totally disrespectful of the hard work teachers put in daily.

And as I say, if you think teaching's such a breeze and teachers have the time to embrace (boak) so many things on top of the day to day demands of the job, get retraining to do it. As I say though, I doubt you'd last a day. God help the poor teachers when your pfb goes to school.

Our school had a wear something funny for money day. It was great at playtime watching Batman, a bunch of pirates and fairies playing with kids in pyjamas or kids in giant wigs :)

We also had a Glee for a Fee talent contest where we had jugglers, singers, dancers my DS who is 5 told robot jokes it was great.

The children also decorated biscuits, played red nose football and did a red nose treasure hunt, so lots to do.

I then had the job of counting all the money raised and we raised £200. It's a tiny village school so we were very pleased.

PS I dressed in a school uniform and DH asked if I could wear the outfit again - perv :o

"As a school we do a great deal for charity, but that is not my responsibility and I don't understand why you think it should be."

Nor why it means some of us have chosen the wrong career if we're not leaping on this particular cause with creativity and unbridled joy.

I've been ruminating on this and would like to make two points:

Point 1
I'm creative every day of my teaching career, trying to inspire 12 year olds to enjoy Chaucer, getting i5 year olds interested in Shakespeare or 16 year olds in structuring the right essay for their exams - and I defend the right to exercise that creativity bone in the job for which I am paid, rather than the extra-curricular fundraising that our school gets involved in.

Point 2
We raised £1000 for the teenage cancer trust with a non-uniform day last year.
We raised £600 for our local hospice the term before with a sponsored walk around the field.
One of my Y11 sold cakes to us the other week so she could raise money for her Guide trip abroad.

Each campaign raised awareness of each issue, actually depended on a fair amount of effort in some cases and each was very simple to organise, to include the maximum number of students and collect the money.

None of those charities/causes accepted the money with a and a 'could do better'.

Anyway, the point raised by the op is so clearly laughable and the defence has been so weakly and uncharitable argued for the sake of not wanting to lose face, that it doesn't really matter. Not one other poster has agreed.

radiohelen:
As far as having a legitimate AIBU question answered, you have. With bells on.
If your question was rhetorical and, as rhetoric is used commonly to add emphasis, this also has been done. It emphasises that you are stubborn, arrogant and unreasonable.

In AIBU stakes, the motion is carried.

uncharitably

Exactly Clam. I'm afraid I save my enthusiasm and creativity for my lessons and my energy for the mountains of coursework I'm wading through at the moment

Need

Disclaimer: I do love my job. It's just hard work at this time of year!

"It emphasises that you are stubborn, arrogant and unreasonable."

Hear, hear. And offensive to hard-working, committed, creative teachers.

Anyway, the point raised by the op is so clearly laughable and the defence has been so weakly and uncharitably argued

Agreed.

YABU

The point is to raise money for the charity. Generally the kids will pay £1 for non uniform - whether it's wear red, wear PJ's, fancy dress or anything more elaborate generally the child will pay the same.

If the kids are happy, the charity is getting the money and the teachers get to spend their time on their lessons, where is the problem.

My DC's loved choosing something red to wear on Friday and the school raised over £350......and the teachers spent their valuable time planning lessons. Ther problem is.......? Oh, there doesn't appear to be one.

So yes, yabu!

The sixth form organised our rnd as the teachers have to do silly things like teach. They voted as a school on what to do, and what outfits the teachers had to dress as, so we did.
The children all voted to wear pj's except it was vetoed by the head.

So who's not creative?

You have great ideas go in and get them under way if you are so keen. One little lad came up to me at our school danceathon and said with a beaming smile on his face that it was the most fun he had ever had!!! Good enough for me!!!