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

815 replies

Freshlysqueezed · 17/07/2015 19:26

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.

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Noodledoodledoo · 22/07/2015 13:09

101handbags I have a lot of teacher friends on my facebook account - I rarely see any of them moan about their jobs - most schools would look very poorly on such people. I know people in my school have been pulled in for such comments.

I have lots of friends who go on about their jobs - in all walks of life.

I have one friend who works in the public sector but not education who seems to be on an endless holiday/long weekends etc - as well as a very generous holiday allowance they also gets time in lieu for any late nights which she has to do at least once a month to attend a council meeting.

I don't know anyone who doesn't get excited about their holidays - at the moment my feed is full of people off to the World Scout Jamboree - am I jealous, a little bit as I would love to go, am I fed up of it - no I am wishing them all a fun safe trip!

HagOtheNorth · 22/07/2015 14:33

'I have a lot of teacher friends on my facebook account - I rarely see any of them moan about their jobs - most schools would look very poorly on such people. I know people in my school have been pulled in for such comments. '

Exactly, I'm amazed that there rae teachers who are dim enough to post details specific to the job such as hating their classes or certain parents.
The most I've seen is 'Yippee! Holidays-type comments.
Are they all very young and used to publishing every detail of their lives online? Because moaning on fb about your school day is one of those areas that can get very sticky very quickly.

101handbags · 22/07/2015 14:37

Bizarrely, I know a lot of teachers. None of them know each other yet they all seem to be quite similar. Some are members of my close family. So I can only speak from my own experience.

CultureSucksDownWords · 22/07/2015 15:14

Ah well 101, they must representative of all teachers then.

Or an alternative scenario is that you strangely attract whingers...

101handbags · 22/07/2015 15:24

Clearly they don't represent all teachers, hence my comment 'I can only speak from my own experience'. It's not rocket science that people who constantly whinge, as you put it, about their jobs, should probably look for an alternative career.

CultureSucksDownWords · 22/07/2015 15:27

in your original post 101, you referred to "teachers" as in all of them, not just the teachers that you know. Clearly the teachers that you know are not going to be a representative sample!

swallowed · 22/07/2015 15:36

I probably have 40 teachers on my Facebook friends list.

I haven't ever seen any of them moaning about the job (although sometimes they share generic teachery stuff) because they are motivated, committed and talented professionals who would never put anything so childish on Facebook.

All I've seen in the last two weeks are check-ins from exotic far flung places across the world EnvySmile

101handbags · 22/07/2015 15:52

'Teachers are the only people I know....' This sentence is meant to mean 'The teachers I know are the only people who....' Clearly I don't know ALL teachers and I can only apologise if my syntax was unclear. Perhaps some of my teacher friends can put me at the back of the class in their primary English.

CalleighDoodle · 22/07/2015 16:01

On a teachers wage the closest i get to exptic far flung destinations is instagram.

larant · 22/07/2015 16:12

Exotic far flung destinations can be visited for the price of hiring a cottage in the summer in Britain.

Redtowel · 22/07/2015 16:20

101 I'm with you.

I've worked for 20 years in an industry where 12 hour days and 80 hour weeks are the norm, I get 4 weeks holiday a year. My job is very pressured and stressful, as I'm sure many jobs are. I don't see you as being "unpleasant" for pointing this out, at all.

OP, YANBU.

Nettymaniaa · 22/07/2015 16:27

Just popped in for a quick look at how the thread is going. Chortles to self and wanders off.

Back on Friday. Keep up the good work.

101handbags · 22/07/2015 16:28

Redtowel thank you for understanding my post!

CalleighDoodle · 22/07/2015 16:29

Larant. Ignore the fact i cant afford a cottage in the uk in august either, where can i go with two children far flung and exotic cheaply? Genuinely interested. Last year was my first holiday abroad in 5 years and the only thing i could afford in the summer holidays was bulgaria for a week half board.

tilliebob · 22/07/2015 16:34

LOL I'm heading for a quarter century in teaching and we can only afford Sun holidays. Not been abroad since 2007. My childless colleagues on the other hand Grin damn these dependent offspring

larant · 22/07/2015 16:35

We went to Costa Rica fairly cheaply. But we stayed in cheap B and Bs and organised it all ourselves. So not a luxury holiday, but exotic.

swallowed · 22/07/2015 16:55

Yep most of my colleagues are under 32 with no kids.

I'm over 32 with kids. We're going to Wales Grin

swallowed · 22/07/2015 16:57

Calleigh I was looking at Morocco, there were some great deals on booking.com and with Ryanair flights it's very reasonable.

However, it's on ice at the moment due to the situation in North Africa.

So I have no suggestions, sorry Hmm

ReadtheSmallPrint · 22/07/2015 17:22

The only way I've been able to get a cheap school holiday break overseas is to:

a) stay up all night on launch day for Thomson and book the holiday wihtin one minute of it being launched in order to get a free child place and good price.

b) go to center parcs in Belgium. Next Feb half term is 400 euros for 4 nights in the poshest cottage. Le Shuttel is currently 112 quid return.

BoneyBackJefferson · 22/07/2015 18:07

101

I know lots of teachers and very few post about their jobs because people would report them to the school and they would loose their jobs.

soverylucky · 22/07/2015 18:11

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honeyrider · 22/07/2015 21:49

School holidays in the UK are short compared to here in Ireland. Primary school get about 9 weeks summer holidays, secondary school get 3 months off for the summer.

I'm not a teacher but love the school holidays as it's a break from homework, lunches, school runs etc. There are some parents that would like to see school holidays reduced and in line with the UK just to save them money on childcare.

Hulababy · 22/07/2015 22:05

All these teaching staff posting negative comments about their job on social media???

Well, they may be brave! It's a dodgy thing to do and most staff in schools know that it can lead to a disciplinary if found to be doing so.

Hence most teaching staff I know would not be posting negative comments about their working life at lol. Even on a private locked down FB, just in case.

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ihatebikerides · 22/07/2015 22:15

Well, I have around 40 friends who are teachers on FB, and not one of them EVER posts anything about school. They'd be bloody stupid to. In fact, I blocked someone who did say something once that I suspected might be to do with me, and it ended up with it being used, along with other things, towards them being "let go" from their (TA) post.