AIBU to not want to teach because it would mean working with other teachers?

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Ok, my hard hat is on and I'm ready for the onslaught, but here goes! I had a great career before my DCs came along, I loved working and was good at my job. I worked in a great environment, had really good people working with me and we all got on in and out of work. Fast forward 4 years I have been and will be for the forseeable future a SAHM, I love it and will stay home until my lo goes to school at least. Afterwards I could stay home if I want to but lately I have been thinking about future careers. I wouldn't want to go back to my old role as I would never see my kids! So here's my problem, lots of people have suggested teaching and I would love to make a difference to kids, I think I have a lot to give and I am willing to put in the hard work, but there is one big problem, other teachers! First I should say my DH is a Deputy Head and I have lots of good friends who are teachers and when I tell them my worries they tend to agree! My oh worked abroad so we were in close quarters with the school and I have done voluntary work in a few schools and I have never come across such moaning, b&tchy people in any other setting. On their own all lovely people, get two together it's a nightmare. Seriously teachers talk about work on nights out, at people's parties, in the park, probably bed if they are married. My OH wouldn't but knows not to on pain of death! I know teachers take the p out of kids, parents and anyone else they feel like. Most have never worked out of a school setting so have no idea what the rest of the world are up to. So AIBU to not want to teach because I don't like teachers or should I bite the bullet and hide in the loos at lunchtime?

I'm a teacher and when i'm with other teachers, particularly those not in my own school, we talk about it quite a lot, because we care about it We discuss latest initiatives and seek advice from each other.

It sounds to me as if you are planning to go into it for al the wrong reasons, perhaps believing it will 'fit in' nicely with your desire to be around for your children. Ha-bloody-ha!

Well, most teachers I know retrained from elsewhere, so a pretty diverse bunch.

Your theory is tosh, and deliberately provocative.

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I work in a school, and it's not like that at all. The parents are very involved in schhol life and they do lots to support our work. There might be one or two that get moaned about, when they have done something worthy of it, but bitching about parents, and especially children, just doesn't happen.

Private tuition? Ikwym about boring/whiny work colleagues - but you get that in most professions.

If you don't have to work, why not volunteer? There are lots of organisations that help kids out and make a difference - then you wouldn't have to work with people you don't like.

I'm not trying to be provocative. I know my views are provocative iyswim but they are still my views. I think tutoring could be good, or maybe working with kids with special needs. I need to look at other options I think.

What a ridiculous overgeneralisation.

I agree with Xenia. (there's something I never thought I'd say!) Why dont you start your own school with just you teaching in it? Then you can indulge your wish to work with children out if the goodness of your heart; you won't have any pesky colleagues who might disrupt the altruistic dream; you can open and close to suit your childcare and you'll have lots of pupils as I assume you won't be charging as you don't need to and you're giving something back.

I salute you.

Overgeneralisaton? I have volunteered in 4 schools in 2 different countries. That has been my experience.

(Shrugs)

You're not exactly a loss to the profession- there aren't many jobs around, so if you're not that fussed, no-one is going to beg you to be a teacher.

On the off chance this really is a serious dilemma, well, all schools are different.

If you did a PGCE you'd get a chance to see how different schools work, how they attract different teachers and perhaps find an environment to fit you.

Op: you've probably just been unlucky with who you work with - pretty much all the teachers I know are brilliant and rarely discuss work on nights out.

It reads to me like you are on a wind up OP.

Lol at oneofsuesylvesterscheerios. I have childcare sorted so I could close up to go the the gym but if you want to work at the school you can!

Did any of the staff in the schools where you volunteered suggest you train as a teacher? IME there is a lot of encouragement for non-qualifieds to do their training.

But volunteering is very different to doing it for real, you know.

If you'd "love working with kids", open a soft play.

With the strange socialisation attitudes you have, I doubt you'd get past first interview for a PGCE anyway.

Our of curiosity, why do all these people who tell you you'd be a brilliant teacher think that?

Well I have worked in schools within England since 1996 of varying types and not had your experience, so who knows. I do think you've been unlucky. Yes, teachers sometimes talk shop to one another or to other teachers - but only the same as other groups of professions do be them doctors, solicitors, whatever.

One of the questions always asked at school based interviews will be how will you build relationshipswith other teachers and teaching staff in school. I was asked this very question at my interview yesteerday. Would be an interesting one for you!

Are you considering secondary or primary?

The competition for primary school teaching posts at the moment is intense. Just to get on the PGCE primary courses it is a nightmare right now.

YABU. However, from your op, I'm glad you're not going to teach my weans with your ridiculously judgemental attitude.

The teachers I know never talk to me about work. Maybe because I'm not a teacher?

However, I love cooking and would love to do it as a job but never will as all chefs are bastards .

YANBU.

We are a massive bunch of cunts.

Well, I do talk about my job all the time. So I suppose you have a point. I find it fairly all consuming, and I love that. You'd hate me!

Seriously, just so you know how blinkered and ignorant your generalisations are, re-read your op, substituting the word 'teacher/s' with 'homosexuals' Just try it. You don't sound very intelligent when you talk like this.

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I'm a teacher. I currently work with some wonderful people who have become amazing friends.
However, there is one woman making my life a misery at the moment, and in the past (at a different school) I have been bullied and victimised by other staff.
I suspect that similar things go on in all workplaces though, and not just schools.

You'd need to brush up on your use of paragraphs before going into teaching

Totally ridiculous comparison sue I am talking about people I have known and I said on their own lovely people, just together not v nice. It's not like I said they eat children for breakfast!