To think that this is too many hours for one person to work!

[crazydashboard]

Teaching...this time of year...nightmare.

My working week:
Monday (Bank Hol): 10-7
Tuesday: 8-8
Wednesday:8-9
Thursday: 8-1(AM!)
Friday: 7-8

And in tomorrow 11-4!

Shattered doesn't cover it!

I'm a teacher too; I agree with you that this time of year is pretty hellish especially if you teach GCSE and Alevel. There is lots of marking, moderating, coursework deadlines and exam prep. However, I don't get worked up about it because next month there will be gain time, and then 13 weeks holiday over the course of the year where although I still do some work of course, I don't work anything like a typical working week. I have to say, unpopular as it may be, that teaching workloads managed properly can not be more than other professional jobs.

Not long now until it all becomes a lot easier. The way I view the busy period is that lots of jobs have manic times and the run up to the exams is our busy times for secondary teachers. In July, when you're timetable is reduced, enjoy the easier life!

Just wondering, in the UK, are teachers' holidays paid?

Obviously you receive pay, but is it in fact your annual salary divided by twelve minus the school holidays, or are you paid the whole time?

Because here in France, our salaries are based on the equivalent civil service scale MINUS the 12 or so weeks of holidays and then spread over the year.

So our holidays are actually UNPAID, so shouldn't be taken into account as a "perk" although I'd still rather have the holiday than the extra pay

Unpaid (except a normal 'holiday allowance')

I wish my fellow teachers wouldn't get embroiled in these endless arguments. I know the OP was only letting off steam about the crazy amount of work she is currently doing (and it IS a crazy amount of work, for anybody to be doing), but it simply offers a bun fight up on a plate. I'm a teacher, I work long hours, it's very stressful. I get paid a good salary, there are many other sectors that are worse/better paid. I get frustrated when like isn't compared with like, for example comparing the poor pay of unskilled or non-professional jobs, but I realise that my job has many compensations ie my sick pay, holidays, pension. My only gripe is not that people don't appreciate the hard work teachers do, because lots of people work equally hard, but that the role we play supporting and nurturing children as well as educating them is not always valued. The pastoral element of my job is massive, and I genuinely care for my pupils, and it really upsets me when teachers are criticised because the majority of the ones I know devote so much of not only their time but also their emotional energy, and that really IS exhausting.

Well said Nonemoreblack
Whatever job you do, you should be valued and have a work/life balance. Thanks for highlighting my initial intentions were NOT to start a teacher moaning thread, as disliked as we seem to be...wish I hadn't mentioned what I do now! Ha!
Shame as I am proud of the kids I teach, I feel a responsibility to get them the grades they deserve so regardless of all this holiday crap, I spend my holidays at the very least thinking what I can do better or how else I can get the best out of my students. Doesn't bother me really as I want to see them succeed. But was merely expressing tiredness at that moment in time...plenty of people on AIBU like to have a rant!