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

[Freshlysqueezed]

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.

Teaching is a profession with a great deal of constraints and restrictions attached, both in form and content, and often within organisations that are on incredibly tight budgets. During term time most teachers are in delivery mode. The best teachers I have known use their "holidays" to plan and to learn.

But spaniel, so do lots of people in professional roles/salaried positions. My Dh has to stay at work until work is done, sometimes working an extra unpaid 20 hours a week (on a bad week).

That's par for the course. Your extra holidays are extra.

..an unpaid 'extra'

Jade, you don't seem to have answered my question. If it's so great, why are so many teachers leaving, and so many training places unfilled?

Jade,
my payslip says I am paid for 32,5 hours a week
I work from 7 until 5 in school, at least an hour every night at home and 6 hours on Sunday. 20 hours a week extra would be a dream!

Aye well, I've taught for 15 years in this country, in a core subject. I love teaching, I'm a pretty good teacher & I don't think I'm a whinger.

But I'm off abroad in a few weeks for a £10k payrise, free family accommodation, 3-for-1 education for my dc in the very naice international school that I'll be teaching in, private health insurance, flights home...& considerably longer holidays.

My school (good/outstanding, leafy setting, best results in the LA) haven't been able to recruit a satisfactory replacement.

It seems the job's not quite as attractive as some of the bashers appear to think.

spaniel stop bleating

Exciting times raven!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-27087942

So how long is the working week?

For secondary head teachers, it stretches to an average of 63.3 hours per week - the longest of any of the teaching jobs. Primary classroom teachers worked longer hours - 59.3 hours - than their secondary school counterparts, who worked for 55.7 hours per week. The hours in a secondary academy were slightly less, at 55.2 hours.

wideopenspace Sorry, I'm clearly in wind up ( or is that down!) mode.

RavenAK that's great. I worked overseas for two years and I had the best time. Enjoy. I mean it.

Jade

They are not extra, they are part of my contracted hours

The are just more than you get. :)

Yup wideopenspace .

& oddly enough, the kick up the arse that made me apply overseas wasn't that I'm being increasingly taken for a mug. I quite liked my job.

It was the prospect of my 3dc starting their secondary years just as the wheels are REALLY starting to come off in the UK.

Spanieleyes you have merely spoken the truth. I recognise everything you say as true. Sunday is the Invisible working day. No one forces teachers to do it. But the thought of walking into lessons underprepared sure does. There is no worse hell than not being prepared for lessons hence the 7.30.start for many.

cheers Netty .

One of my colleagues went to a similar set up in Dubai 2 years ago. She, and her family, are having THE BEST TIME

RavenAK that's the truth. Oh god help us all. And I mean parents, kids and teachers. Thankfully for me mine have missed it. I can't imagine. What fresh hell.

spaniel

Did any of you see the infamous June 16th letter to schools from the DfE.

It's a shame you are leaving, Raven. You are one of the good ones we can't afford to quit, that the government has made no effort to retain. They are bloody idiots.

No netty - what is it?

Nettymaniaa
*Spanieleyes you have merely spoken the truth."

The problem is that although spanieleyes has spoken the truth and only spoken the truth in response to comments made by others, she is according to them bleating and moaning.

Which says to me that those saying that will only accept their own versions of the truth.