Do the teachers really get 13 weeks hols a year?

[GabbyLoggon]

I only ask the questions

I think I have worked out that I have 10 weeks of holiday a year, double that of dp. However I think I manage to work in excess of 1000 hours more than him in a year ( if he were full time)

Ok so teachers do get lots of holiday which may or may not be spend doing lots of school work... but I cannot choose when to take my holidays. I miss my children's sports days/concerts etc etc ...so there are pros and cons of any jobs..
the pros of teaching are the long holidays (so no need to find childcare) and the pension (not so much any more) plus it is fun and I love working with children etc etc etc
the cons are the long hours, inflexible holidays, reports, and a massive cap on salary

Gabby I am more than capable of reading, and I am far from a bimbo, I own and manage a successful business. You are one rude, horrid person who seems to lack the brain cells most people are born with.

I can imagine you, sad, lonely and seeking attention. Not really bright enough for a normal friendship or relationship and forced to spend the entire day being told what a complete twat you are on MN.

Oh get me. Whose, not who's.

I can't believe I wrote that

Lostmy its hard to spell/punctuate when some fool is making you ...

I can imagine you, sad, lonely and seeking attention. Not really bright enough for a normal friendship or relationship and forced to spend the entire day being told what a complete twat you are on MN

Doubt he even has a wife as he claims. I expect he gets through a box of tissues a day getting his kicks on here.

Teachers contracts require them to work 1265 "conditioned hrs" a year: that's 6.5 hrs / day for 195 days / year (3 terms of 13 weeks - 5 of those days are for for training etc). The "condition" for those hours is that they have to be spent in school in close combat with the little sods close contact with the little loves.

The kicker in the teacher's contract is the "ancilliary hours" clause, which requires teachers to work whatever ah are necessary to carry out their duties effectively. The ch / ah split gives teachers flexibility to decide when, where & how to do the ancilliary tasks such as plan, prepare, mark, clean weapons & dispose of evidence etc.

Most teachers work 50 - 55 hrs a week in term; spread across a 46 week working year, this equates to 42 - 47 hours. Reasonable, I would say.

I spend quite a chunk of my day on mn being a twat.

I am not sure gabby intends to be offensive tbh. I find the strange posting quite easy to ignore. Eccentric rather than nasty.

Plus if someone is lonely or isolated and fills their time on mn I am not sure that is insult worthy.

I don't think there is a need to personally attack someone . I am secure in the knowledge that I work hard and am good at my job. If you feel that way the op cannot rile you.

It is not the time spent on MN but the rude behaviour when on here. So far i have been called several things by Gabby and there is no excuse for this.

I am not sure gabby intends to be offensive tbh

I think he does.

I work hard and am good at my job. Extremely good. I'm not boasting, merely stating a fact. I get well above average results in my GCSE and A level results, so I am secure in that knowledge.

However, I also get irritated by cheap, phenomenally ill-educated jibes at the teaching profession which Gabby has personified on this thread. We are very easy targets for a lot of people whose only experience of school is what they took with them when they left, some decades back - maybe less, maybe more...

If he can't handle personal attacks which are most likely to happen with such fuckwittage coming from his keyboard.... then he shouldn't post such twattery on here.

Still. Let us take much comfort from the fact that it is all probably going to get much worse for the teaching profession under this government. Dear Gabby will merely be our 'starter activity'. (Did you see what I did there

Fair enough.
I am just saying I get a different sense. And I would rather err on the side of bumfuzzled

well, I don't know that thread, haven't worked back far enough.
But anybody posting under such a moniker would automatically get my vote!!! (off for cup of tea and film now, emoticon...)

I don;t mind working all the extra hours as e'll get a good pension.

Oh shit.