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.

How have I killed this huge thread?

I wandered off because teachers are a bit shit.

Oh dear did you loose concentration?
Anyway, I hope you've all had a wonderful day of rest.

I've been lying on the sofa all day congratulating myself on being the hardest working of all workers in the world and writing a list of all the reasons I deserve this holiday. I expect most teachers have been doing the same.

As a teacher you're being unreasonable. Those outside of the job can go home and leave work there. I can't! I teach level 1 - 3. I have 12 units per level and six groups in total. This year I have marked a total of 72 units. With each group averaging 20 Learners that's 1,440 scripts this year. Each script has a minimum of four tasks. That's 5,760 tasks that I had to teach, plan, supervise completion and then assess.

I have taught 2000 hours in just 36 weeks and done ALL planning for that at home. I get to work at 8.45 after dropping off DS, teach straight through with NO breaks until 5. Then spend an hour talking to parents, completing learner paperwork that cannot be taken home. Get home, put DS to bed and start again at 8pm, finishing around 12.

So I bloody well deserve my break! And I will bloody well enjoy it, because for the other 36 weeks in the year. I work flat out with well over 100 hours per week logged!

at day of rest

Well, evil I have been doing that obvs, but only in between updating my fb status.

Well as a non teacher I get up an hour before I go to bed, walk 6 miles in the pouring rain (they stage it even if it's not raining) balance on my head all day while monkeys throw their shit at me and then walk home again. All for a salary of £3k, full time. You don't know you're born. But I do it for my love of monkeys. And shit.

WALK?
You don't know you're born. I donated my legs to the school science dept. so I drag myself 10 miles in the sleet.

Whilst keeping the 10kilo pile of marking dry.

Stealth and evil, why on earth did you wait to the holidays to sit around drinking wine and self-congratulating on social media? Teachers are so brilliant that we should be doing this all year round, preferably posting publically a photo of ourselves holding a glass of wine and thereby giving them a reason to clutch their pearls.

DH came home today with a biggest pile of thank you cards from his students with all kinds of lovely comments written by 14/15 year olds saying how inspiring he is and how much they've enjoyed having him as a teacher/ tutor.

That's why teachers teach. Not to please whinging parents.

wapa photograph each of the cards and comments individually and post them all on Facebook ; )

Well done to your husband! I hope you enjoy a wonderful holiday :D

Ah but I'm not a teacher. I work for a living ;)

Haven't read the thread. Someone must of already said this, but... As someone who has to work every Christmas day could you all not post stuff about how awesome your Christmas is...

Even when we are on holiday we are working harder than everyone else. Even when I was eating a Magnum and watching Tattoo Fixers. Because I am a teacher.

Quite a few relatives and friends are teachers, I have never ever seen them actually boast about their long summer holiday.

What I have seen, which I don't like, is comments about how tedious and wearing they find their classes, how the pupils get on their nerves as they don't seem to understand this or that, how they can't wait for end of term. Teachers are human and of course they vent, but I don't actually think FB is the place for it at all. Its too public and I always feel uncomfortable that it sort of dehumanises children. Surely not all pupils can be bad?

& anyway, where did teachers vent before? I guess to close family member or good mate, as we all did. I wish they'd resume doing that.

noble I am eating toast and drinking tea.

Still puttin' in the hours though...

Last day of term today - woohoo!

No actual teaching today (as it used to be my exam groups' day), but I do get my lovely Y10 form twice.

I need to spend my morning sorting out a trip for next term, which is already turning into a headache. Once that is wrapped up, it is Easy Street until results come out in August.

I love my job and I love the holidays!

Grr

Teachers are the only people I know who post on facebook about their jobs all the time. How hard it is, how stressful it is, how wonderful they've been told they are, how they are counting down to the holidays (whatever month of the year it is), how they hate the government, how they are worth more, how creative/amazing/imaginative they are. On and on. I've worked full time for 21 years, since leaving Uni. I have no children. I have 5 weeks holiday a year. I'm out of the house 7am to 7pm every day working day. I work hard, I am tired, I am stressed. Isn't everyone sometimes? I keep my working life off facebook. Nobody cares. I wish teachers thought the same. We all have jobs, some of us choose to be teachers, some of us don't.

How many teachers do you know 101Handbags? Do you think they are representative of all teachers, or are they just people who like a moan irrespective of what job they currently do?

Interestingly, I have people from all kinds of different jobs on my facebook, and the complaining is fairly evenly spread.

If your teacher friends annoy you, then block or defriend them.

My FB friends have a variety of jobs. All of them look forward to their holidays, all of them moan to some extent about their jobs although I agree FB isn't the place to air them, and all of them chose their career for whatever reasons they wished. People who hack me off are either defriended, hidden or blocked. Social media is supposed to be fun, enjoyable or relaxing, isn't it? If it's such a stress, why bother? Or are people just saying it's "on FB" as a modern day version of "my friend knows a friend who..."

Well 101 no one's forcing you to view other people and their news feed.

If you're feeling the need to be so unpleasant about your "friends" perhaps you could distance yourself from them if their activities are affecting your well being.