This thread is awful and I say that as some one who used to teach in primary.
Yes yes to some of the points about velcro shoes, name labels on clothing, practice getting ready for PE and such.
In regards to the must be collected within an hour or you are a vile parent some people do not have support networks (we had kids who's Mum had fled abuse and knew no one, people who were brand new to the area, refuges and one were both parents had died and Gran was collecting children from two different schools). Do you realise how hard it is for refuges and domestic violence victims who are terrified to build relationships with people in their local community from scratch, especially if there is a language issue or the kids are above school age and not at toddler group age?
Sometimes there are not the jobs locally. I have had families with no washing machine, families with no food, families sharing one room in tiny bedsits, families in emergency accommodation. Instead of slagging those children off you send it down the chain and try to get someone to help the family. That is what all the good teachers I have worked with do.
Gone are the days when people lived in the same street as their families.
It isn't a case of some parents thinking it is fine to not have a local person on hand, they simply might have no one in the local area to do it.
In my day if kids were ill there were no mobiles, you lay down on a bean bag or little bed until someone came home. Funnily enough schools managed like that for decades! In any school I have worked in or dc have been in if there was no sick room then children waited in heads office, library, support room or such, I have never been anywhere where kids where made to go outside.
Some people send their kids in ill (I don't) because it has been made so you have to jump through hoops and get snotty letters and asked for sick notes in some schools if your kids are genuinely ill.
There are some amazing teachers and some utterly crap ones like ANY job. It is a hard job but so are other jobs out there and worse.
I do think there is an attitude from SOME , note I said SOME teachers, that teaching is the worst job in the world and they are the only ones under stress and they are treated worse than anyone else and they should be respected immediately without showing anyone else any respect.
My Mum has arthritis from lifting heavy patients all her working life until health and safety rules, she has been spat at, punched in the face, kicked, attacked by druggies, bit, urinated on, had poo smeared on her, sexually harassed, if she makes a mistake someone DIES, she has to sit with dying patients, patients who have no one, tell people their love ones have died, tell parents their kids aren't going to make it. She doesn't get paid a massive amount for that. Teaching isn't the worst job out there.
I have awful experiences of it from a parents side too, having a child with special needs and no one helping you, my child being humiliated in front of the class by a teacher because yet again no one has passed the round robin to the teachers telling them she has special needs despite being told repeatedly. Being told off by staff members for being too slow to get changed for PE due to special needs. Being bullied and threatened and nothing being done.
I have also had amazing teachers who have built her confidence and brought her on leaps and bounds and I am thankful every day to those teachers.
My dc has just moved to a new school after a very serious incident in school which the school only dealt with properly after the police were involved and stopped victim blaming.
I have moaned about it on here in the past and will do so in the future.