Teachers - you're 'avvin a laugh aintcha?

[mholdall]

Kids recently had a week off - half term. They were back this week then, guess what - teacher training day. Seriously, what I want to know is this: is there ANY other job in the country where you get:

• 13 paid weeks holiday a year
• Good pay
• Good pension (believe me, you do compared to people who do proper jobs in private sector - if you dont believe me, try it)
• And yet you still need these extra days to do some training. Training for what, exactly? Seriously, for what???? And how am I, as a parent, supposed to factor childcare in here.
• Oh, and you still do nothing but moan about pay, pensions etc
• Rant over

Here you go love.

Yup.

They are all lazy tweedles with easy jobs.

I wish I had life so easy.

you do it then if its so fabulous.

i do agree that extra training days are uneccesary

Nice try

Sorry. Really sorry. I feel so bad. Honest.

My best friend is a teacher. She goes into the school during the holidays and works at home every night, not to mention the amount of stress she's under by trying to manage a class of ill behaved, ill mannared children (and their parents!). She earns every penny of her salary. UABU. Why don't you try being a teacher if you think it's so cushy?

13 weeks are unpaid.

Training days were taken off holidays, not teaching days.

And they are probably making it up- there is no training day, they just want to make your life difficult. I would.

Here. My first

Do you not get notice to plan your childcare?

Isn't their pay pro-rata over the year?

So not only do they get practically bugger all, as Belle has pointed out they also work during their 'holidays'

Laughing all the way to the bank...

I just KNEW I would get sob stories. What a load of total rubbish. MOST jobs these days are hard. Yet most jobs arent so ridiculously cushioned from the harsh realities of real life.

you seem to have forgotten that they have to put up with 30odd kids every day - if I had to do that I would want more than 13 weeks off.

training days aren't extra they are taken out of school hols
school isn't childcare

Ahem, OP - why not join us in this cushty old lark then?

Yes, TRAINING FOR WHAT??? Please, somebody tell me.

Anyway, why would anyone not want the people who educate their children to be well trained?

Can I be the first to point out to the OP that school is not childcare...?

I agree with all the above but i wouldn't do it for a million a year. i'd rather be a sewer rat killer than have to spend 6 hours a day with 30 other people's children.

I would rather like the 13 weeks holiday a year though.

you can be the second, vc

Training to teach your children maybe?. I dunno. Just a crazy thought....

There isn't enough money in the world to get me to stand in front of a bunch of 15 year old little bastards shits.....no way.