AIBU to wonder why the feck teacher training days can't be delivered in the holidays.

[Billynomates71]

Anyone?

I realised their job wasn't a walk in the park when I had kids of my own and sent them to school. Their workload is scary. Was a real eyeopener.

www.education.gov.uk/get-into-teaching

I don't understand why teachers get a ft salary £22-27k (starting), but are only contracted for 190 days a year. It just doesn't make sense to me.

It doesn't matter if it makes sense to you or not. We do.

Good fun had by all!

I don't live in the UK so no skin in this game, but it seems there might be a point here.

Children - 190 days of teaching

Teachers - 195 days of work.

Why can't those extra 5 days be done during the children's holidays? Basically, teachers have to do (say) an extra day's work after the end of each term, or an extra week's work at the end of the school year. If teachers are paid taking into account they have 65 days of holiday, and those holidays must be taken outside term time, then isn't it a total no-brainer to tack these five days onto the end of term? Basically, this is a scheduling thing?

What am I missing?

www.education.gov.uk/get-into-teaching

Billy's gone, I think.
Unless he/ she secretly sneaks back in the vain hope that someone might agree with him / her.
Problem us, Billy, if you do come back, I think teachers are fed up with being randomly bashed about how 'easy' that have it, especially as few other professions seem to attract so much (ignorant) criticism.

anyone

opps post fail

Brock lots of INSET is carried out by external providers - the days need to be booked when they are available.

Also, having it in a block means you cant develop and return to an area of CPD throughout the year

I'm a TA in a primary school. Post's like yours wind me right up. Some of these inset days are for us TA'S to be first aid trained, just in case your child starts choking at lunchtime, or god forbid they need resuscitation. If the school didn't have these trained first aiders I'm sure you'd be the first to moan!

or not !!! hmmmm gin

Okay, okay... it was just a few fuckoffs and a bit of goadiness (possibly an understatement).

Full marks to both ghosty and ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged for your naiceness, and hands up at the back if you recognise where Truth's name from. English lit teachers, eh, who'd be without 'em?

The OP promises that she has gone now, and I can't imagine that there's a person left on the internet who doesn't understand the salary structure, so is all well that ends well?

Brock - often, schools want to work with particular speakers who have limited availability, or need to do 3 days training on the same subject but spread out throughout the year so there is time to work on the skills inbetween the sessions, or work with other schools who have different speakers on the other training days.

It simply doesn't work for most schools to just lump all their training days together and tag them onto the beginning or end of a term.

Well, how about reading the thread, BrockAuLit

Precis: some, possibly most, are tacked on to the end of a term. Those that are not are due to the availability of external trainers. And, of course, as many parents prefer random days throughout the year as those who want longer holidays.

Shit, just remembered I said I was going.

Polishes gold star oh and it's Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice isn't it?

Err... Austen

One house point deducted.

Austin, ghosty? She wasn't related to the Six Million Dollar Man...

WIBU to complain to the teacher yetanotherHelen that I never get gold stars and other posters always do. Are ghosty's and Atruth's mums on the PTA?

sorry I'm not a fan - despite calling my DD Emma ! (I tell her it's from the book ...)

The reality is that teaching is a bit like flexi time with no choice in when you take your flexi

So actually they're working double hours or more in term time as that's when the children benefit from getting their marked work back/getting extra exam classes for gcse time.

And then they take their flexi in half terms/holidays

In the last 7 weeks my DH has worked every weekend marking and not had a full day off in 49 days - he really is due his week off next week

pmsl now see I had a Steve Austin doll - I can relate to that - I never went to a ball or had any unwanted suitors

'It was just a few fuckoffs'