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Teachers - you're 'avvin a laugh aintcha?

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mholdall · 04/11/2011 22:56

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
OP posts:
ilovesooty · 04/11/2011 23:19

So do you do any CPD in your job, that you got with such good grades?

FYI my A levels are much better than yours.

tethersend · 04/11/2011 23:20

Well, I can't speak for everyone, but I got into teaching specifically to mess your child up and piss you off Smile

Jodyisagirlsmane · 04/11/2011 23:20

OP I would say it is near impossible to 'fall into' teaching these days. It is fucking hard to get onto a PGCE course, and when you finish it, competition for jobs is bloody tough.

Valpollicella · 04/11/2011 23:20

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Jodyisagirlsmane · 04/11/2011 23:21

:o val

manicbmc · 04/11/2011 23:21

Yay Tethersend! Grin

I haven't read back as I can't be bothered at this time of night. I only popped on to offer the OP a Biscuit

Cathycomehome · 04/11/2011 23:21

I didn't. Not that it matters, but in 1995, I got 2 As and a B in my A levels. Just saying. And a 2:1 in my degree in English and Spanish.

And I teach PRIMARY!! Crikey, OP.

Bogeymanface · 04/11/2011 23:21

That is BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!! :o:o:o:o

mholdall · 04/11/2011 23:21

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RitaMorgan · 04/11/2011 23:21

Er... Inset days are still work days! I had an inset day the day after half term (I work in a nursery school) and still had to go into work - it wasn't a nice day and home with my child.

Fraidylady · 04/11/2011 23:21

Baited.........

52 weeks -13 weeks holiday =39 weeks working, which means 39 Sundays spending 3-4 hours planning and marking (which equates to 4 weeks' work over the year).

Every evening numeracy planning, because we have to assess each lesson and then plan the next lesson to suit the requirements of the children.

3 x lunchtime clubs for half an hour each.

2 x shortened lunchtimes because of class commitments.

Oh, and I'm also taking part in a school event on Sunday morning....

What a bloody hero..... or fool, one or the other.

EvilTwins · 04/11/2011 23:21

OP, my A level results were better than your too Smile

ninah · 04/11/2011 23:22

so you are basing these assumptions on three teachers you happen to know and what you deduce about their working patterns .. and a snide remark from when you took your A levels 20 YEARS AGO???!

undertheduvet · 04/11/2011 23:22

It never ceases to amaze me how much teacher bashing goes on, I am not a teacher and couldn't do it either but I totally appreciate all they do.
Why does a job that enables your children OP to learn and advance through their lives garner so little respect from you?
Im sure you'd be one of the first ones on here whining if your kids were getting poor teaching or weren't being stretched enough.

Im not suprised teachers have such a hard time in classrooms getting respect of kids if they are picking up such attitudes from their parents at home.

JamieComeHome · 04/11/2011 23:22

okaaaay

Valpollicella · 04/11/2011 23:22

Op... I mean....
Blush

tethersend · 04/11/2011 23:22

Mine too.

And I got them in 1932.

JamieComeHome · 04/11/2011 23:23

mholdall - don't even go there with the educational prowess. I could whip your sorry ass

ninah · 04/11/2011 23:24

I did the School Leavers Cert (snort)
on slate

TuftyFinch · 04/11/2011 23:24

I sorry mholdall (great name! Really) I was confusing you with someone else. I thought for a minute you were one of those ridiculous parents that think teachers are shit when it comes to your personal opinion of jobs but they are fine to look after and educate your children.

You would never pass teacher training and if by some fluke you did you would last approximately 10 minutes in the classroom.

Bogeymanface · 04/11/2011 23:24

Having said that, when DH cant get school holidays off because it is his busy time, and we are getting "if your child misses 2 days of school in ten years then they will become a serial killer" letters from school, I do sometime think I wish we had jobs with that many weeks holiday.

But then I think that it would mean that I spent 7 hours a day with other people kids, and if there is one thing worse than your own kids playing up, its other peoples playing up!

Overall I admire teachers and wouldnt do their job for a big clock, but I would happily have the hols! :o

ouryve · 04/11/2011 23:24

mholdall - you don't stay in teaching unless you're both bloody good at it and resilient. It's thankless. There's proper fun 8-4 jobs that pay better and don't keep you awake at night in the same way.

Do you say all these things to your friends? Are they still friends, or are you too chickenshit to have that conversation?

Valpollicella · 04/11/2011 23:24

Did you walk to school barefoot in the snow too Ninah... Wink

ilovesooty · 04/11/2011 23:24

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ninah · 04/11/2011 23:25

feck no I ran vc, no slacking in my day