I used to wear my coat in class, it was so cold, and gloves too sometimes. In fact one year I ended up in hospital with a nasty infection due to being horrendously run down and cold all the time (no heating in my teaching block at all for the entire winter, just a little fan heater I had bought myself). Outdoors I used to have to supervise children for hours at a time in the freezing cold as well, every Thursday, being periodically pelted with footballs and so on.
On more than one occasion, colleagues were attacked by disturbed pupils. One year there were several arson attacks on the school. Once the school IT system electrocuted me and I was flung across the room.
Sometimes it was impossible to take a loo break for 8-9 hours, the job was so demanding. It was also difficult to have a coffee or tea or even a glass of water during the day, on occasion. Lunch was not always possible either.
In return parents used to moan and shout at me. Once I got a five page letter written in purple ink to the head teacher about my alleged inadequacies as a teacher, despite the fact that the child concerned had scored really well in her exam thanks to me coaching her for free in my lunch hour. FFS.
Guess what? I fucked off and stopped teaching thanks to all this crap. £18k a year I was earning after 7 years in the job. Even then there was no way you could live in London properly on £18k.
Working in the private sector as a journalist, and prior to that a temp, I experienced better hours, better perks, better money and a lot more breaks.
So do fuck off, all you teacher bashers. It is a hard job and you should be fucking grateful someone takes the trouble to teach your kids at all given how they are treated. If you don't like it, try doing it at home yourselves.