To already be fed up with teachers/eduaction workers posting about their long holiday!

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Facebook is swarming with people saying how much they deserve it and other people patting them on the back. It seems like the world and his wife are in education or SAHM's with 6 glorious weeks ahead of them. Apart from a one week holiday I have a juggling timetable of various childcare arrangements to run to and fro from.

FFs, it's your choose to work in a job where you have to juggle, it's my choice right now to be a Sahm (for the summer) and not to be able to afford much above necessities, it is a teachers' choice to do that job and benefit from the holidays.

You don't like your life? Change it. Don't yet to make other people feel bad to make yourself feel better, that never works

Yes I agree KitKat why not just say Yay we have 6 weeks off and are doing X,Y,Z that would be interesting not the thank God its over don't we deserve it more than everyone else on the planet stuff. I think its come at a bad time when my own job is really stressful, long hours and taking over most evenings as well. Although 15 hour shifts on an acute ward you are most definitely up against it!

I have never understood the 'teacher bashing' that goes on about holidays. We didn't choose them, they are a perk of the job! Some of us work very, very hard during term time (and some of us go into work over the holidays too) but I don't think we 'deserve' more holidays than other jobs. We get them because that's when the school is shut and yes, it's a bloody marvellous part of the job.

He he. Ok I apologise to all the teachers who can spell. I appreciate that's a massive generalisation !

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I think what you do is amazing. My BIL and SIL are both nurses.

Anything that involves engaging with vulnerable people is physically and mentally exhausting (not to mention the hierarchies, the admin and the politics)

I have retrained as a teacher this year, I used to be sceptical about teacher's moaning about their lot too, but bloody hell it is the hardest thing I have ever done.
I have had to apologise to my teacher friends for not believing them.
I do remember the pain of organising childcare for the summer holidays op, I sympathise.

7 weeks off and very happy about it thanks .

I'm a TA, get a rubbish wage , do extra hours for nothing and the holidays are the perk.

You should have seen the lovely presents I received this week

Flat, your talking rubish. Their are loads of teachers can spel realy well .

Fair enough Leonas. I am just having a bad day and should stay away from Facebook. After all many of those people rubbing it in today will be moaning about being with their kids in 2 weeks time as one poster already mentioned. Maybe I should just retrain to be a teacher. Other people I know from the corporate world have done so and to be fair despite the obvious pressures they find the hours much shorter and their quality of life generally better.

YABU

Jesus people can't enjoy anything these days can they

Cull your facebook friends if they are annoying and whingey.
I only have lovely people on mine.

KitKat1985
"To clarify my earlier post, I don't begrudge the teachers their holiday; rather I'm fed up of them making out they have more stressful working lives than every one else."

I'm tired of being told that my job is easy, people getting the well publicised details wrong and then being told that when I defend myself that I am saying that I work harder than everyone else.

Oh and if you want the holidays off don't become a teacher.

stitching that made me all twitchy...

'Maybe I should just retrain to be a teacher. '

You go for it. Then come back in five years and tell us the truth about how you feel about the job.

Surely when you decide on a job or occupation you know what it entails beforehand, if you fancy 6 weeks summer holiday then consider being a teacher. I imagine the teachers who are saying how stressful the job can be undoubtedly justify it in this way because of the amount of people who think they have a cushy number.

I wouldn't be bothered by a few light-hearted teacher comments, why does everyone feel they need to get in a pissing competition about how stressful there job is when at the end of the day most people chose their occupation and should be aware of the pros and cons. Don't do nursing or any public service related occupation if you don't like long shifts

Well the children might have gone but I'm in for three days next week and I'm sat here cutting out stuff ready for next term.
By the way teachers don't get any paid holidays.

'Oh and if you want the holidays off don't become a teacher.'

Become a supply teacher. I get weekends off too.

Yarp Kitkat is the nurse not me so she is the amazing one! I work in the legal world I am afraid. Hence the constant pressure, targets and long hours!

Fgs

Yabvu, after reading the complaints people have on here about teachers I feel they really deserve all the holiday rest they need.

I think it's not the holiday, it's that some teachers on social media seem to be forever counting down to holidays, and it's less a happy/grateful feeling and more an entitled one. It's been said a lot on this tread that teachers work hard and so deserve a 6 week holiday. Well I'm a lawyer and work long days year round. I don't want to be s teacher, but I am tired of reading that teachers feel they deserve 18 or whatever weeks' holiday per year because they "work hard". Lots of people do. A bit of gratefulness wouldn't go amiss.

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Ach, sorry! Jeez I must read more carefully!!!

Yes, your stress is of a different kind.

Have a pat on the back

I'm a TA.

I DON'T get paid for the holidays, my pay is worked out based on number of hours x hourly pay x 39 weeks and divided by 12. So although I do get paid during holidays, that's because I basically save some of my salary from term time to ensure I'm not without pay in August.

Well, teachers are constantly commenting on teacher bashing threads about how they work 22 hours a day, including weekends and spend 5 weeks of the Summer holidays marking or prepping.
They really are to be pitied OP. They have such a hard life, as they love to tell everyone. All the time.

I've just broken out in sodding shingles. On the last day of term. Probably due to all the stress of teaching.

The holidays are the only benefit that teachers get. We dont even get tea or coffee.Even then I spend about 1/2 of mine working