Do the teachers really get 13 weeks hols a year?

[GabbyLoggon]

I only ask the questions

Right, I have to bail.

Although these days I am only a teaching assistant I am afraid it is INSET twilight this evening, so I am off back to school for a few hours - creative curriculum is the agenda this evening I believe.

Ah yes Waterloo Road the school with a huge number of English teachers, one maths, one science teacher. Spanish, art and Foid tech not offered anymore are they?

Gotta love accurate portrayals of schools on TV.

Foid = food obviously!

noey...I am sober as a teacher.

Come to think of it there is not a charge of drunk in charge of a classroom

I heard the waterloo road question raised on radio and a teacher said "Our school is much worse than that." The current Head is impresasive. But my wife does not like the actress in the role

Funny story we had capital punishment in my era at school
You used to get confrontations. The kids loved them.

One springs to my Parent to Head across the palayground.."You should know better than tell those children they are all going to hell."

He had not said anything of the sort; but we enjoyed watching it.

I just worked out I'm in school working 32 hours a week (more when there are meetings/parents' evenings/open evenings). I work probably on average 6 hours in the evenings and weekends per week. So a 38ish hour week. This is what I worked when full time in the private sector.

I'm part time, only contracted to work the equivalent of 3 days a week. So, OP, am I 'on holiday' two days a week if I don't get paid for it and work in that time anyway?

Yet another teacher bashing thread; is another one really necessary? Surely the others can just be topped up with a bit of knee jerk reactionary spleen venting every now and then.......

I only wish there were as many threads about the tens of billions of tax payers money pissed away on keeping banks afloat that are, by and large, still run by the same people who seemingly did their level best to bring the global economy to it's knees but are still commanding 7 figure salaries whilst we all bare the brunt of the cuts; or the insane level of legal tax avoidance and subsequent loss the treasury by many of the countries highest earners and largest corporations.

Teachers pensions do need to be discussed (and urgently) but it's a shame they seem to get more ire and bile directed at them than the people who played a much bigger part in bringing about the recession and subsequent massive drop in tax revenues.

Funny story we had capital punishment in my era at school

What a shame they didn't subject you to it.

gabby did you do a lot of acid as a teenager?

Acid talk is an evasion of real issues. And libellous

I just want to add this, my DH broke up from school 10 days ago. He has been in every day since then (apart from Sunday) and will be in until Thursday.
He is required by his head, to be back two weeks before term starts.
He certainly doesn't get the whole amount of holiday due to him.

Gabby you have not posted a full or legible sentence throughout the whole thread. You are either too lazy to be bothered or not competent enough to make a decent point so simply type what comes into your head regardless of relevance.

gabby I think you'd have a very hard time making the case that asking a question could be treated as in some libellous or defamatory; tbh going by what I've seen on this thread I think you'd have a fairly time stringing together a coherent argument for anything.

I only ask as I have a couple of old friends who did do too much acid in their teens and they tend to communicate online in the same kind of rambly word salads.

People...don't waste keystrokes on Gabbyloggon. He's the MN equivalent of a tramp that shouts at pigeons... Makes no sense at the best of times.

rambly word salads

Love it!

sewmuchtodo. Learn to read for starters. I cannot be held culpable for some twerp doing 10 years compulsory education; and not being able to read well.

Night school you bimbo (Of either gender)

summary teachers complex and somewhat devious. thanks

The hols are complex

The issue is not that teachers work considerably more than the hours they are contracted to do, as others have said many professionals do this.

The issue is that while doing this, teachers have to put up with being told that they have 13 weeks holiday a year and thay they have an easy time compared to other professions. Hernce why they feel they need to explain about how much work they do.

The hols are complex

No dear. It's just too complex for someone as thick as you are to understand.

That made even less sense than Gabby

I have a first and a PhD and was a decent teacher. Plenty were less well qualified and better than me.

Stupid arguments.
Like others have said, teachers get paid for thier contracted hours. The 'holidays' , weekends, evenings are not contracted but work needs to be done in this time.
Gabby says on her profile that she does clerical work BTW.