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.

It's people like Ellie who make me sooo glad I'm not a teacher anymore! I'm surviving in the "real" world now, much much easier and nicer than working in a school! And I don't miss the holidays either, despite now only having 20 days instead of 13 weeks (is that right?) that I used to have.

Well they actually do! you try being in the same room for a week, let alone a term with 20 plus children draining you! They deserve their holidays.

Ellie have you been in a school or had a conversation with any actual teacher since the 1980s?

It's always interesting to know what parents really think of teachers, isn't it?
All that seething hatred and resentment, disguised by the School Run Outfit, MN scarf and the painted on mask of civility.
Bit like Roald Dahl's witches.

Probably best to ignore the goadiness, tbh.

"Makes me laugh folk thinking Teaching is easy"

This is categorically not what has been said. I hope you don't teach comprehension! It has been said that teachers don't necessarily work harder than others nor that they 'deserve' more holidays, not that "teaching is easy".

Furrylittlecreatures, how do you know how much work your teaching colleagues do at home? Do you stalk them all?!

'a full time salary for part time hours'

They're paid for the weeks they work. That pay is then split into 12 lump sums and spread over the year.

George

Indeed

Teachers dont get paid for school holidays therefore it's not really a holiday but unpaid leave!

Ps whoop whoop six weeks off yippee

Lizzylou and Jaynesisagirls name your honest and considered approach has restored my faith.

Vair sensible George

And just because someone says they are a teacher on an anonymous forum, doesn't mean they are.

Naice and

I don't begrudge them at all. Their career choice - I certainly couldn't do it - and that's with summer holidays and reception half day inductions to cover this year!!!!

YANBU.

I totally appreciate how stressful teaching is - lots of my friends are teachers - but I have an outrageously stressful job in HE and despite most people reckoning otherwise, we work all summer. Inderd

To be honest Hag I often wonder how many failed to get into teacher training as the amount of venom spewed towards teachers often from the same posters is interesting and has to have some reason behind it. As for working in the "real" world - dealing with social work, child abuse, starving children coming into school - it doesn't get much realer. Plus the years most of us worked in the "real" world before coming into teaching or in the "real" world working 2 or sometimes 3 jobs to put themselves through teacher training

Justwhy

True

I don't believe a word of what anyone says on here. Don't really know why I waste my time, actually

I lived with a teacher for years, and a close family member is very high up in a London school.
Neither of them work themselves to the bone, let me tell you. And they certainly don't do a bloody tap over their 6/8 weeks holiday. In fact, my family member is going abroad for 5 weeks.
Teachers work hard. So do many,many others, including nurses-which I am. Nights/long days/weekends/Christmas for christs sake.
You'll only ever hear nurses complain about not being able to care about people properly. They just don't seem to do the continual wailing that you hear from teachers..."Our job is soooo haaaarrrdddd...."
Teachers need a kick up the arse.
Sorry, but that is what I think.

If I were a teacher I'd be dancing naked on my lawn to the glorious strains of 1999 by Prince.

Party on teacher types.

Silly phone. .

Indeed, I'm sick of explaining that not all educational establishments shut in July for six weeks. Summer is my busiest time of year and that's with no students to contend with!

Used to work as a lawyer. Worked until 5pm each night. Rarely longer. Managed to do several large scale activities in the evenings and weekends as well.

Now I'm a teacher and when it gets to Friday night I can barely converse as I'm so intellectually tired.

But I get 9 weeks hol this summer and I am very happy about that. :)

Cheers Mitzy but some bugger might harpoon me if I dance outside in my pelt

It's funny that we all send our kiddies away to school instead of teaching them ourselves. It's not like public schools produce any better educated children. It's convenient, I guess, and it allows us to go back to work, earn more money and pay more taxes. But then we have threads with people complaining that the teacher isn't doing the parents job for them well enough, or has taught them something they didn't want them to be taught, and that they signed a contract that they wouldn't go on holiday and how they have a fine. I don't get why people care about such trivia.

Certainly if I was going to entrust my children to someone else for God knows how many year, to shape and mold their personalities, and act as role model and mentor to my child, I'd not be MN slagging off their whole profession.