To sue Gove for ruining my back

[teacherinpain]

3 prolapsed discs

This is down to the crippling weight of paper work and marking I've had to lug round with me all day every day since Gove came to power. ( The hospital confirms this)

This will never heal

What if every single teacher who has been physically or mentally damaged by this mad man sued him personally for the results of his insanity.

[ilovesooty]

I don't teach any more. I'm on annual leave this morning, but thank you for your concern.

[sonlypuppyfat]

[Nomama]

AKeyFox - more rooms because the reason we move round so much is to ensure that no room is left unused - any institution's grading includes room utilisation (we mustn't waste tax payers money with empty rooms).

So I have to vacate/move so that a room is not sat unused for the 30 minutes or an hour until I would next use it.

Every lesson I and my team teach is in a different room. We move across the large campus, into all of the vocational areas, always moving, carrying, catching up. It is not an unusual situation, but the current funding restructuring is making that worse - more needs for more bums on seats to bring in the same amount of money = bigger class sizes, ergo more bumf to carry round!

[AgathaF]

in 99% of other jobs you can go for a pee when you need to and don't suddenly realise as the kids are heading out of the door and you're crossing your legs and praying that you've not had the chance to piddle since 7am that morning - as an ex midwife, I can assure you that the lack of time or opportunity to pee is not unique to teaching.

I realise that teaching is a demanding job, but FFS, the constant bleating about conditions!

[Nancy66]

do teachers really have to wait 9 hours before they can piss?

you can go at break time can't you? At lunch time? Before class begins?

[ComposHat]

Of course they don't have to wait 9 hours! My parents are both teachers and have never mentioned they haven't has 2 minutes to pee.

As for 99 per cent of other jobs brong able to pee whenever they have the urge? Don't be daft.

[BlameItOnTheMoonlight]

Break time - duty / needy tutor group kids
Lunch time - revision / catch-up / meetings
After school - meetings, clubs, parents blah blah blah.

I work in an international school so have nothing like the shitty conditions that I experienced in UK state schools, but the lack of wee time is the same.

[Happyringo]

Well why do you need to wee at all, sounds like there's no time for a drink anyway! ;)

[Happyringo]

I'm hiding this thread now I think as yet again it's descending into "4 Yorkshireman monty python you were lucky" style competitive "my job is hardest", as it so often does.

Most people have stress at work, I don't see why any profession thinks it has it worse than any other.

And just to add, I've never had a job where I can just get a drink or go for a wee when the urge takes me. And I'm not a teacher!

[HumphreyCobbler]

Do you really not think that some jobs are more stressful than others?

I have managed an aromatherapy shop with no customers - NO stress!
I have worked behind an understaffed bar - HUGE stress.
Teaching - huge stress
Event managing - stressy but it stops a lot of the time

I bet A and E nurses are stressed. I bet GPs and social workers are stressed. Some jobs are really stressy but you get paid huge amounts to compensate, like some kinds of solicitors. My self employed husband is not stressed. All jobs are different ffs.

And just because some teachers have time to wee, that means all teachers do? It is really common to go all day without eating or weeing. Don't accuse teachers of lying when they say this, it is simply true. I am not whinging by the way, just establishing the facts.

[AElfgifu]

You cant compare one day here and there with the endless weeks schools have off

sonlypuppyfat, you have no idea! it isn't one day here and there, at this time of year, it is 10+ weeks of every day, including throughout half term (which is a paid holiday) and the Easter holidays ( which is an unpaid holiday), often including the bank holidays too! I will sleep most of Saturday, work straight through Sunday and hardly have a conversation with DC for the whole of May or June!

I get about two weeks work free in the summer, but my staff at my school are back full time two weeks before my Dc school opens for pupils. I get a few days work free over Christmas. That's about it really, maybe one or two other days throughout the year.

Teachers hours are unlimited. There does need to be something done to limit them.

I'm having a "lunch break" now for half an hour, then straight back to work.

I'm sure other jobs are unfair too, but it doesn't make this any less unfair.

As soon as the Btec marks have been submitted, I'm going to look for another career.

[shockinglybadteacher]

Yeah, honestly, stresses are different. I have stressful moments in my current job, but I can also pee whenever I like.

On the pee scale:

Security - it's mostly boredom but when something goes wrong it goes wrong very quickly. Peeing is complex as you have to arrange with a fellow member of staff to take on the area you're guarding while you nip off to, er, take care of your lady areas.

Teaching - you end up holding your pee for ridiculous times. I have been desperate for a pee for half a day but had to teach classes. Prepare for infections.

Office job - no problem. I could pee 55 times a day and no one would complain. I need to go, I get up and walk along. The toilet is about 50 feet from where I sit.

I know which I prefer....