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To be sick of the current public slating off teachers!

379 replies

Belle15 · 25/07/2013 20:58

Just feel teachers are criticised from all angles at the moment and we work damn hard for very little financial gain or thanks!! Would like to see any of the people moaning about us actuallu spend a day in our shoes.Needed a rant!

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Tanith · 26/07/2013 12:23

I childmind for a number of teachers (btw, we get a lot of slating from people who don't know better).
One of them has been coping with the aftermath of a failed Ofsted. Another has had a violent pupil with SEN who has attacked her regularly and destroyed displays and resources. Both have been incredibly stressed and have broken down when they collected their child.

Because they care. Because they're desperately trying to do the best job they can under difficult circumstances with little support and a lot of condemnation and demanding from those who could make their jobs so much easier and don't purely for political reasons.

That's the reality of teaching these days.

I don't see politicians or IT professionals or dentists or lawyers etc. being kicked, punched and sworn at as part of their jobs and going back into work again and again, knowing it'll happen the next day and the next...
And being blamed for their own assault.

Arisbottle · 26/07/2013 12:37

Mrs hercule I chose teaching because it is a great job, relatively easy on comparison to other professions with great holidays

noblegiraffe · 26/07/2013 13:22

Aris, I was thinking in particular of a time I was due to be observed by the head. In my class was a particularly poorly behaved child who was also statemented for SEN. I had already on two occasions had to restrain him from hitting other children in the class, and the school was trying to arrange a different educational setting for him. He wasn't supposed to be in my lesson, but he turned up anyway. That was a bit stressful.

What about traveller children, and truants? Kids who have been off sick for ages and suddenly pitch up for your observed lesson not knowing what you've been doing for the last few lessons? Hard to plan for them if you don't know who will be there.

Arisbottle · 26/07/2013 14:41

Because of where I teach we have quite a few traveller children, as well as children who don't come in when it is harvest time. I always have a back up plan in case they are there, particularly if I was being observed and you only get observed a few time a year.

morethanpotatoprints · 26/07/2013 14:44

think too many parents object to the system and the Policies from Gov and blame the teachers for this.
I know the education system isn't one that most people would choose, but teachers do a fine job with the system that is in place.
If you don't like this system you have choices, such as Private or H.ed you don't have to send your children.
The teachers I have come into contact with have been doing the best they can and I don't know one who did it for any other reason than it being a calling.

deepfriedsage · 26/07/2013 17:15

I would blame the school for a violent SEN child, obviously the school is not able to meet the child's needs. Maybe like the examples on here the teacher picked on the sen chilfs spelling, humiliated, belittled the child, found the child's sen a joke, its so easy to see how that could happen. Poor child failed by the school is my first thought, not for the adult who chose the professioni and would be party to have failed the child.

ChestyNut · 26/07/2013 17:20

Join the club OP we nurses have taken a slating recently and don't get paid much either.

sheridand · 26/07/2013 17:21

You must be near me arisbottle, i'm in the traveller capital of the UK and it's important to have a weather eye on when they are about or likely to be in. The Summer term is pretty much a no-show. Girls start dying off in days in about Year 5, by Year 9 they're pretty much gone.

The differentiated work needed to reach them is vast in scope, some of them are still 2-4 years behind the others due to never attending fully, and of course their behaviour in lessons that they subsequently don't understand is then not helpful. It's a very big issue for our local schools.

noblegiraffe · 26/07/2013 17:46

I would blame the school for a violent SEN child, obviously the school is not able to meet the child's needs

Indeed we weren't, which is why the school was working very hard to organise a move to a more appropriate educational setting. But in the meantime we had to do our best.

Maybe like the examples on here the teacher picked on the sen chilfs spelling, humiliated, belittled the child, found the child's sen a joke

No, I didn't. In both cases it was a misplaced comment by another child which provoked the attack.

deepfriedsage · 26/07/2013 18:33

I believe you noble, as you seem level headed, sorry that happened to you all.

BoneyBackJefferson · 26/07/2013 19:24

"I would blame the school for a violent SEN child, obviously the school is not able to meet the child's needs."

Why blame the school when the system is inadequate.
We had very little funding for SEN thanks to gove we now have even less.

"Maybe like the examples on here the teacher picked on the sen chilfs spelling, humiliated, belittled the child, found the child's sen a joke, its so easy to see how that could happen. Poor child failed by the school is my first thought"

You should take your show on the road its very funny, response to this is what noble said.

MrButtercat · 26/07/2013 21:06

Scottish having supported dp for 22 years and lived through more release dates and office rants than I care to remember I think I'm more than qualified to comment thanks.Could get him to post himself but a) he?s working and b) he'd say the same.

SirChenjin · 26/07/2013 21:13

Ignore Scottish. She can't help getting her spurtle out and giving things a good old stir.

scottishmummy · 26/07/2013 21:15

Your husband says carries as much gravitas as wee man at bus stop says
What's your opinion?
or is it simply your dh says

SirChenjin · 26/07/2013 21:17

The wee man at the bus stop might be an expert on a subject. Never mind opinions, go on fact.

scottishmummy · 26/07/2013 21:20

If so said wee fella can post other than regale with my husbands says this,says that
Or getting all radical a woman could have her own opinion
Other than dh says...

SirChenjin · 26/07/2013 21:22

Her dh is working. Better facts that opinions.

scottishmummy · 26/07/2013 21:26

As a former teacher whats your opinion buttercat
It's somewhat passive to couch your opinions via your dh
What's your take seeing its you posting not him

SirChenjin · 26/07/2013 21:30

Opinions on what?

MrButtercat · 26/07/2013 21:30

My opinions are exactly what I've posted. Pretty obvious I would have thought.

scottishmummy · 26/07/2013 21:32

In real life do you prefix sentences with my husband says or just on mn

MrButtercat · 26/07/2013 21:37

He isn't my husband.

None of my posts prefix with "my husband says".

SirChenjin · 26/07/2013 21:37

Depends if it's fact.

Is it your husband who's a teacher Scottish?

scottishmummy · 26/07/2013 21:42

So all the trials and tribulations of your dp aside,lets forget the deadlines and£££ IT
A fair few your posts are dp this that..
Is your only contention I Said dh not dp

SirChenjin · 26/07/2013 21:46

Is he a teacher Scottish? I could have sworn he was.

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