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AIBU?

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AIBU to think that teachers whinge too much???

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hoobledoo · 07/12/2012 15:15

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!!!!

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cumbrialass · 07/12/2012 21:15

Tries to think what I've moaned about this week....

the parent who complained that her child was cold at break.... who had sent him to school with a thin coat and no hat or gloves

the parent who assured me that her child could not possibly have used bad language ....even though I was standing behind him at the time

the parent who complained that her son had not been allowed on a sports trip....even though she had been reminded FIVE times that a signed permission slip was needed

the parent who said her daughter should not have to stay in at lunch to complete her homework as they had been too busy ......even though I had already extended the deadline by two days

the parent who turned up half an hour late to collect her son from an afterschool club I was running.....and didn't even apologise.

I love my job, and the children I teach, but there are some disadvantages......

BattlingFanjos · 07/12/2012 21:20

Read a few posts then gave up....gave me a headache [ache]. Generalisation is not good in any capacity imo.

Let's not turn this into a parents are stoooopid thread....oh wait, eek, too late

Some teachers are shite, some parents are shite, most of us do good jobs at either or both. I have a pretty cracking working-relationship with my DS' teachers, as in, we're all working together to raise him. Everyone take a deeeeeeep breath and reach for the

cumbrialass · 07/12/2012 21:22

Parents are no more stupid than teachers are whingers

Alisvolatpropiis · 07/12/2012 21:24

Oh do fuck off

If you think teaching is so easy,why don't you train to be one.

BattlingFanjos · 07/12/2012 21:25

My point exactly cumbrialass well ime anyway lol.

heggiehog · 07/12/2012 21:34

Everyone moans about their job when they've had a bad day or they've seen some rubbish spouted about their role that isn't true.

for you OP.

Try harder next time.

Hesterton · 07/12/2012 21:35

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CheckpointCharlie · 07/12/2012 21:54

hesterton very succinctly and accurately put. Makes me think of all the little faces telling me things!

Feenie · 07/12/2012 22:23

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

Tethers, you have just made me spit wine all ovr my keyboard. And not for the first time either.

Best answer ever

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hoobledoo · 08/12/2012 03:34

this is my only "teacher bashing" thread however I did comment on another which related to teachers which caused me to start this. I have respect for teachers just like I have respect for everyone else who works, however, people go to far lengths to become teachers and they choose to have that as their career, so why moan about it? My DH is a manager in a fast food chain and he absolutely hates it, but he didn't choose this job, he didn't study hard and want this job, he needs this job so he can afford to study and some day have a career, so I feel like he, and others like him, have the right to moan about their jobs. Like I said no one is forcing them to be teachers, if they don't like being a teacher then leave!!! I have actually tried to be a teacher, I worked for free for about a year in a primary school to get experience so I could become a teacher and I had a brick thrown at my head and numerous other events happen while I was there, so decided to leave and not become a teacher. Simples ;)

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TheNebulousBoojum · 08/12/2012 07:23

I think you will find that many of the complaints teachers make are not actually related to issues and areas that we trained for.
Such as rude, demanding parents, location of items of unnamed clothing and making do with inadequate resources or funding our own. Parenting children whose parents don't give a fuck. Dealing with a curriculum and expectations of standards that change on an unpredictable and illogical basis.
It is why I snigger at those ridiculous, nauseating adverts that they have, enticing the gullible into the job like a gingerbread house...all sweetness and Positive Attitude until the hag gets her claws into you.

soverylucky · 08/12/2012 08:46

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aamia · 08/12/2012 09:15

On maternity leave from teaching. Not constantly ill, loads more energy, far less stressed - and that's with a young baby! Everyone moans about every job - nothing and no-one is perfect!

EvilTwins · 08/12/2012 09:36

I will be moaning today about the fact that my job has made me tired. Last night was the 6th form Xmas party and, as head of 6th form, I had to go. It was lovely though there were far too many weeping teenage girls... However, I didn't get home til 1am (WHY is there always one student who tells their mother it ends half an hour later than it actually does) because I had to check that everyone had been safely picked up before I left. Also, my feet hurt from dancing in heels. Am I allowed to moan about that?

Arisbottle · 08/12/2012 10:05

I tend to moan when I am tired , so it happens towards the end of term. Then I moan about being tired rather than the job . I may be a teacher but I am also human

Feenie · 08/12/2012 10:07

I see, hoobledoo - so, you have tried teaching, and actually couldn't hack it because of reasons which don't relate to teaching, but the aforementioned bad behaviour/terrible parenting, yet you still insist that teachers have no 'right' to moan?

ShipwreckedAndComatose · 08/12/2012 10:25

If ever I get a brick thrown at my head I will remember not to moan about it because I don't have to stay teaching all the other kids who reward me with their willingness to learn.... Right

noblegiraffe · 08/12/2012 10:30

I've noticed an increase in my moaning since Michael Gove was made Education Secretary. I wonder if there's a connection?

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hoobledoo · 08/12/2012 10:33

I never mentioned teachers having no right to moan feenie, everyone has a right to moan. I also never mentioned that the moaning was on mumsnet, so I now feel that teachers also make a lot of assumptions!!!

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Toadinthehole · 08/12/2012 10:37

YABU, if you're talking about teachers in the UK. YANBU otherwise.

Teaching is hard. So are all professional jobs. However, only (UK) teachers get how and how often they should breathe by a bunch of ignorant, overpaid and overbearing politicians and civil servants.

Feenie · 08/12/2012 10:37

"I have respect for teachers just like I have respect for everyone else who works, however, people go to far lengths to become teachers and they choose to have that as their career, so why moan about it? My DH is a manager in a fast food chain and he absolutely hates it, but he didn't choose this job, he didn't study hard and want this job, he needs this job so he can afford to study and some day have a career, so I feel like he, and others like him, have the right to moan about their jobs. "

It was most certainly implied here.

Arisbottle · 08/12/2012 10:38

Maybe you just know some right grumpy bastards who just happen to be teachers .

marriedandwreathedinholly · 08/12/2012 10:59

Actually I think some schools do encourage a culture of whingeing. Our dc's primary school did. Every time the head spoke it was to say how tired her teachers were and how hard they worked or to make an excuse when something went wrong that it was the end of term and everyone else was frazzled. How her teachers desperately needed three weeks off at Christmas when the parents all had the statutory bank holidays. It was a bit over the top to be fair and it irked many parents.

Parents often sniggered "ooh I'm a bit tired, I'll have a whinge-up to my clients/customers because it's appropriate and part of good customer service and will make them want to pay my bill faster".

Yes teachers do work hard, but so do many other people but we don't share our trials and challenges and whinge about our workload to our customers. Teachers regrettably do seem to and it isn't very professional.

TheNebulousBoojum · 08/12/2012 11:05

I've never known teachers who have complained and moaned to the children or the parents. In the staffroom, and to other teachers, yes.
Online doesn't count does it? None of you are real.
Except Feenie.

BoneyBackJefferson · 08/12/2012 11:08

hoobledoo
"so I now feel that teachers also make a lot of assumptions!!!"

A bit like the assumption that is your title?

marriedandwreathedinholly

"but we don't share our trials and challenges and whinge about our workload to our customers. Teachers regrettably do seem to and it isn't very professional."

I know of nobody that works and does not whinge about what they do, Whether its doctors down to mechanics, or even mothers of children.
Hell, I even know people that don't work that "whinge" about their situation.

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