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

[Billynomates71]

Anyone?

i dream of a job when I can go to the loo when I want. Drink a coffee when I want,

mmm

take a day off in the week MMMMMM

and GASP be trusted with the key to a stationery cupboard

Clearly teachers are doing a bloody awful job because half the people on here can't read!!

I have thought about becoming a teacher tbh for the cushy holidays, but quite frankly it wouldn't be challenging enough.

I'd get bored.

This thread again??

Have a biscuit OP

hahaha!
I am sure some really challenging schools would love your expertise Billy.

No one can say teenagers are boring

Billy - what is your job?

What bit if 190 days in school for the pupils aren't you getting OP?

Add em up. 365 (366 in a leap year) Minus Holidays AND inset days = 190. Or did you miss some maths lessons?

Sorry if that was harsh but it has been said once or twice up there.

I'm not a teacher. I work full time. I plan my leave / put of school
Childcare based on the above sum.

Not rocket science.

But billy! Think of all the fulfilling things you could do with all that time you are not at work. You would never be bored.

Cushy number?! ha!

I'm not a teacher fwiw.

Teachers are well aware of the real world. They work in it. They go home and work, worry about the children in their care as well as their own. In reality they get very little holiday because they spend their time prepping materials, planning, organising classrooms. It's not a career you go into for the holidays.

On the note of TTD. My children have to be looked after just the same as yours do on these days because I work in a school so attend the training.

I think a 60-80 hour working week is pretty extreme, really. I think DP works long hours and he does about 50.

For that I would expect to be paid a LOT, or be doing something I really want to do. Otherwise, I probably would just retrain as a teacher.

she could do TWO jobs, I am sure cora

I work in pharmaceuticals. Why?

Please please do not become a teacher Billy.

Teachers also only get paid for 195 days - if you wanted them to work more days like office workers then you'd have to pay more

And we can't afford it

Obviously what you're really saying is that you want teachers to work more days for no more money and you think their salary adequately covers them to work more weeks

And you'd be wrong

your job sounds pish easy.

I know ALL About pharmaceuticals, I once took an aspirin

Or looking at it from a different angle - before INSETT days the school year was 190 days long - so children were in school for 190 days.

Now with INSETT days the school year is 195 days long, with 5 of them being INSETT days.

So children are still in school for EXACTLY THE SAME NUMBER OF DAYS AS BEFORE.

No loss of education, no extra days childcare for parents to find

(I'm not a teacher, I just worked that out from previous posts. Can one of you good people please check my working out?)

OP, if you think teaching is easier with better benefits than your current job then there's an obvious suggestion...

Oh bugger - I didn't miss any English lessons, just typing on phone lessons.

What bit OF
OUT of school...

Ffs.

Do you ever do training days as part of your job?

I know loads of folk who assume Teachers turn up 5 minutes before the kids and leave at same time, only the reality is very, very different.

Folk slagging them off wouldn't last a morning in a classroom full of kids all at different levels of ability and perhaps one or two with behavioral issues and the kids whose first language isn't English and the ones with poor personal hygiene. I could go on.

Why anyone would thinking dealing with all that and more is piece of piss I'll never know.

I would like the best education for my DC, that means the teachers have to be up to date on trying and new policies.

I like teachers training days as I have 2 DC in different schools so I means I can spend 1-1 time with each.

NATO has kind of messed it up this year when the school was forced to shut.

But the children don't miss those days - they were never taken from teaching days, they were taken out of the holidays.

And just to clear, teachers don't get paid for holidays. They get paid for the 195 days which they work, but the annual salary is split over 12 equal monthly payments.

If you want teachers to work more days it would cost a lot more. And I've no idea when they'd have time to fit in the planning/ marking for this. And I think you'd find your children being taught by a constant stream of newly qualified teachers as too many would burn out quickly.

A person with your attitude could become a super head, turn around failing schools and I bet the students would carry you out on your shoulders chanting "captain my captain" while the parents cry tears of joy.

Don't deny the profession your talent, even if it would just not quite challenge you.

yup its INSET though.
or nowadays teacher development days or some such crap.

Listening to some bloke in a suit from Next talking about Growth mindset and doing epi pen training AGAIN