To be sick of the current public slating off teachers!

[Belle15]

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!

[Feenie]

Feenie all his kids know him as a complete tosser too my friends DD is deaf in one ear and refused to seat her where she could her him, he is a controlling prick like they all are no wonder the kids are all failing and falling behind other countries

No wonder

[Passmethecrisps]

deep yours sounds like a wildly extreme situation which surely can't be used to generalise against a whole profession?

[Viviennemary]

For very little financial gain. In which case time to resign and take a voluntary job. Honestly!!

[Feenie]

Like they all are

Are you 12 years old? Because that's pretty much the only excuse I would accept for that piece of fucking ludicrous logic.

[Amaxapax]

I am, Feenie. I appreciate that means that I benefits like gained time, which a primary teacher wouldn't have. I have the utmost respect for primary teachers: I would not have the patience or stamina to effectively manage so many little ones and the amount of differentiation and emotional support that goes along with such a role.

[ilovesooty]

he is a conrolling prick like they all are

Give it a rest.

Ama I agree.

[Feenie]

FWIW, I completely agree with your sentiment, Amaxapax. It was this bit that gave you away:

As a teacher, I find my work ebbs and flows. I have my busy times and my easier times, just like anyone else, so I roll with it, just like anyone else.

That bit isn't the case in primary any more - it's all 100% full on.

[SirChenjin]

You can't judge all teachers by one bad one Sonly, that's not fair.

[sonlypuppyfat]

No I am not 12 years old just someone who has been to school and has 3 DCs and been very unimpressed by teachers who think they are so very special they don't have to work the same as everyone else. Oh you have to work til your older well so does everyone else.

[ravenAK]

Oh dear.

There's no point in teachers moaning about everyone hating teachers at the start of the summer holidays.

All the non-teacher parents are worrying about what to do with their little angels & resenting us for being on our jollies.

Much, much better just to catch up on some well deserved r&r for a week or two, before we have to start prepping for September. Reading some uninformed generalising random on t'internet calling us uncalled-for names isn't going to help with that.

(I really do not know why I even clicked on this thread, tbh...doh)

[Passmethecrisps]

I ignored it for a while as well raven

for everyone?

Primary teachers should share their choccies too!

[Englishroses]

I personally feel teachers do very well financially. They seem to be the only group of professions who feel the need to confirm just how hard they work.

[ilovesooty]

just someone who has been to school

Okaaaayyyy...you know all about teaching then.

has 3 DCs -

teachers who think they are so very special they don't have to work the same as everyone else

FFS.

[Feenie]

True, dat

[ilovesooty]

They seem to be the only group of professions who feel the need to confirm just how hard they work

Because of the public's attitude to them?

[BoneyBackJefferson]

Englishroses
"They seem to be the only group of professions who feel the need to confirm just how hard they work."

With posts like
"teachers who think they are so very special they don't have to work the same as everyone else"

Its no wonder that we do

[Belle15]

Hence this thread.
I agree though- bad timing!

Wine all round!!

[Englishroses]

No the public don't have a negative attitude. Teachers seem to be so sensitive! The majority of other professionals work long hours but don't go on and on...

[MrButtercat]

I'm rapidly losing patience with teachers.

Other sectors have had pay cuts,pay freezes,performance related pay,stress,yada,yada for years.It's life.

There are fab teachers,middling and bad( the same as every sector).

Performance related pay is long over due and you get a very decent wage alongside rather nice holidays.

Everybody else has to get on with it soooooo........

[Passmethecrisps]

[ravenAK]

Cheers!

After all, it's not like we have to get up & go to work in the morning.

[sonlypuppyfat]

You see your all so fab no one can ever pull you up on your job. You don't start work til your in your twentys and expect to finish before you are 60, but I forget you have been to uni and are the chosen ones. Oh and my DCs have been told numerous times they are a pleasure to be around but I forgot that teachers always like to be sarcastic.

[Feenie]

But the majority of professions don't have any number of threads saying they don't. Apart from nurses, lately, I notice.

[Englishroses]

I acknowledge that the majority of teachers are REALLY hardworking. But so are most other professionals. .

[wherearemysocka]

just someone who has been to school - so an expert on education, then? I went to the ballet the other week, doesn't make me a ballerina.

Teachers just have a disadvantage in that everyone knows what we do and anyone who has children deals with us on a regular basis. My partner does a job that requires half a page to describe, no-one criticises him as they don't really understand what he does. I think we get paid pretty well (for the moment) and the holidays are fab.

I know some people like to have a go but on the whole I feel respected and valued by the people I actually deal with. The children and parents I work with seem happy and sent some lovely cards at the end of the year and to be honest I couldn't give a fuck what the Daily Mail thinks.