AIBU to think that teachers whinge too much???

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Not much to this post, just that if you feel that being a teacher is such hard work and so unrewarding and how the children and their parents are so awful to them, then stop moaning and don't be a teacher!!!!

I like whinging on MN because I don't do it IRL.
I think mothers whinge far too much about everything, not just school and teachers but about everything their child comes into contact with that is less than 100% lovely for them.
And all those that whinge about their partners on here.
And those demented questers in S&B who can't find exactly the right shade of mulberry.
And those posters who go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about their MILs.
But I do enjoy Moansnet.
My life always seems happier by comparison

Mr. Gove, is that you again?

I'm a teacher and I've moaned a fair amount this week, for two main reasons. One, because a large proportion of my PPA time (of which I get very little) has been taken for a school-wide event. And secondly because we had a parents' evening on Tuesday where not only did half the parents not bother to turn up for the appointments they had made, but one parent in particular was astonishingly rude and aggressive towards me and I, of course, had to remain totally professional and was unable to tell her what I really thought of her, because we must be on our best behaviour at all times no matter what the provocation.

DH is a mechanical engineer. If you want to see moaning about professional status, you should read the letters page of Professional Engineering when they discuss the title "engineer" being used for gas fitters...

The most irritating thing about being a teacher is that everyone has been to school, therefore people who do not teach think they know my job.

I love my job, but there are parts of it that are tough. The worst part is having to listen to any news item that beings 'Schools are failing to...................'.

YY knackered to parents eve. We spend ages getting ready, targets, IEPs, etc etc and then get treated like buffoons!!!!
In general, teachers do about a gadzillion different jobs in their role, have to face unimaginable stress, huge pressure, nightmare parents and ill mannered and badly behaved children (and parents) We work 15 hour days most days and are never allowed an off day.

Our home lives suffer because of the work load and tiredness. I have worked in the real world for massive companies, and smaller ones too, and have now done an equal amount of time as a teacher, teaching is way harder.

In my experience, teacher mainly whine to eachother, there is a lot more whining on here about teachers from parents.

I love my job, I love my kids and I get massive satisfaction from seeing them develop. It is fucking hard work though.

Bog off OP.

fallenmadonna I am with you there. DH is a chartered civil engineer and he too has occasional rants about the same thing. As for everyone having a view on how to teach, try being a transport planner!!!

The grass is always bloody greener hey? If people think teaching is so frickin easy why not have a go? Oh right, cos you couldn't do it and you know it!

Totally agree with checkpointcharlie.

Op glad you're not my friend, knowing that I wouldn't be able to moan you if I'd had a hard day! Bloody hell,if only our lives were as perfect as yours!

Can you give some concrete examples of teachers you have heard moaning?

Pardon?

It's not really worth sniping over this again is it? There is rarely any common ground.
Although the pantomime season is upon us...YABU, Oh no I'm not...Oh yes you are..

Although I do have 90 books to mark over the weekend, so I'd better not get too merry or my spelling might go wobbly.

Is this the Friday evening wind up?

Teaching is shit, I've just quit teaching. Satisfied now?

Yay! Another teaching bashing thread!

You do it, then, if it's so bloody easy.

For fuck's sake.

Actually, you know WHY I do it? Not because of the flaming morons like you who haven't got a clue, and not because of the parents who, last year certainly, drove me to the point of SERIOUSLY questioning whether it's the career for me. And not for the few kids who can make life miserable, but because I make a difference to their lives, to their futures and indirectly to the future of this country. Because I hope to teach them how to be decent and kind human beings.

Have you never whined about your work? What gives you the right to judge whether or not people are whining too much when, I assume, you have never done their job?

Shit, you've made me angry.

oh dear. do i have to read this thread. no, i won't bother.

Perhaps we could ask MN to make little warning flags, if the title doesn't indicate that it is a thread about teaching?
Or perhaps parents could stop complaining about teachers on MN, then the responses wouldn't annoy you.
I sometimes miss the old days when parents stayed in the playground on the other side of the white line and teachers were left alone to do their job.

I think we should just agree with them.

'Yes, my job mostly consists of pressing the play button every hour. I'm home by half three gloating over my holidays & practising my snow dance in anticipation of fucking up your childcare'.

That's the spirit, raven! Goblet of mulled wine?

My husband moans far more about this job than I do.

Some teachers moan others don't. I suspect we all moan from time to time. I have had a bloody good moan this week. It will pass.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I became a teacher for the sole purpose of fucking up your child's education.

I was home at half three today. Couldn't get out of the door quickly enough.

I'm a TA

Teachers don't moan nearly as much as they should IMO.

Also agree with NebulousBoojum

Oooh ta .

OP, it's parents like you who make us moan.