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.

Hah wouldn't it be refreshing to have a complete overhaul of the education system? One which takes the needs of Clarence, teachers, parents and the working environment into account...?

Wonderful.

children. I don't know who Clarence is!

Maybe he should be taken into account too - who knows?

I freely admit to being jealous of teachers holidays / but then as a farmer I haven't had time off in the summer ever!

Family holidays are great in the rain in Scotland in November !

I called a hypothetical paedophile Clarence on a recent thread, down, so I'm glad you didn't mean him...

To me Clarence is a cross-eyed lion.
Or a chap who got drowned in a butt of Malmsey.

Clarence is not here to defend himself and accusing him of being a paedophile goes againt mn guidelines, so im reporting you wide!

Calleigh

He was my hypothesis though.

Is that weird?

2 family members are teachers, neither of them stay later than 5 at school (comment that 5 is late), or do weekend work or go into school in the holidays. Only 1 moans about her hours and how stressful her job is thankfully....!

I agree misery top trumps gets on my tits. I work full time, single mum to three lads and have a chronic health problem. It's the job that keeps me going when I feel shocking. The pleasure I get from it.

BeyondTheSea

I take it that you know this because you live with them?

I find it strange that having to find childcare for the summer holidays is implied to somehow be the teacher's fault. My dad was a teacher - he would leave at 7:30, get back at 5:30 -6 , play on his guitar for perhaps 45 mins to 1 hour and then, when not working his other jobs, start marking after dinner - he enlisted us to mark math papers when we were older (clear answer sheet) and even then he would often be going to 9pm. Report time would have him up until 11. He also had two other jobs - stacking shelves in a supermarket and playing classical guitar with his friend at restaurants.

He never crowed about his long holidays as far as I know. Like PP's have said, they're essentially unpaid.

Do you know what I find really unfair on Facebook ... This thing really fucks me off ... When parents post pictures of their DCs in assemblies, or at sports day or being Mary in the nativity. Selfish bastards how dare they rub my nose in it.
And as for those bastard SAHM I mean all that shit they post about all the work they do. And don't get me started on those boasting about taking s holiday out of term time ...
There are many more but these are things i could post as a teacher,
But don't because I knew what I was signing up for. Nothing makes up for
Missing that nativity or the egg and spoon race ..but those six weeks in summer are pretty magical.
We shouldn't be petty and jealous, each job had its ups, downs and perks. Personally as a mum and teacher I would prefer well planned lively lessons

I second that. It's my sons leaving primary school service this week- I can't go as it's the last week of term and three of us have children in the same class at the same school. My mum is attending as she did for middle son. :( I am not even sure I will get the chance Friday to pick him up as although we have finished we have directed time until after he leaves school..... Cracking

Oops missing a bit - well planned lively lessons - and for that I need the holidays as doing it in school means constant disruption!

Scrap the three uneven terms and revamp them so that the breaks are spread evenly. There were proposals to make the year have 5 terms at one point.

Folk would STILL moan that Teachers get too many holidays.

I can just see it now. Teachers having the audacity to mention on Facebook that they're looking forward to the holidays for someone to say oh but you've only just recently had one in the last few weeks. How very dare you!!!

Just pick your friends carefully, rather than having 1001 random acquaintances. Or if you need to have a wider audience, filter what information you give them according to what they can cope with.
I have seriously wealthy relatives, they don't rub my face in it, and I don't heckle them about falling short of my high standards in eco and social matters.

It fucks me off that (very well paid corporate type) friends of ours can go to the maldives all inclusive for two weeks for the same price i can go to bulgaria (cheapest holiday i could find) for a week. Inflated school holiday prices are a teacher tax. Id happily take mine out of school time and pay the small fine if i could choose my Holidays.

Hag that is very true.

Im selective with who inhave on fb. If you have widely different views to someone, and dont sound like you like them very much, why sign up to see what they are doing every day?

Boney I know because they are very open about it.

Having said that, I am sure there are some teachers who do work late/do many extras.

I just know my family who are teaching don't - so it does annoy me when she moans how tired she is! To give other DS credit, she does how lucky she is to have all the holidays off to spend with her DS.

Most teachers still have work do do over these holidays... Planning etc

BeyondTheSea

So you don't really know what hours they do then?

You are assuming that they are telling you everything.

Well why on earth would they lie about what hours they work?

Anyone who has 30+ children all day, 5 days a week, for months on end deserves a fucking medal. Throw in trying to teach them, they deserve long holidays. I'd be a gibbering wreck.

I have nothing but admiration for teachers, and I am perpetually astounded, as well as incredibly proud that DD2 has decided that's what she wants to do.