AIBU - Teachers

[LouBlue1507]

Hi everyone!

I am so fed up of reading all the teacher bashing threads lately! Most people have no idea the amount of word they have to do and the stress they are under!

So please share positive stories/experiences of teachers!

Show the appreciation!

My DDs teacher is marvellous - she always seems calm (which I wouldn't do with 30 6&7 year olds!!)
Plus she'll always be wonderful in my eyes - when dd had an operation, she had a great big get well soon card that all the class had signed and phoned us at home to see if she could pop round with it on the way home from school (at about half 6 in the evening!). Above and beyond call of duty that was and we really appreciated it.

Anyone posting on this thread identify with this...
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MrsFizziWig

As much as I find that comment strange, about TA's doing most of the teaching, bit of a put down of TA's there eh? Hopefully not intentional?

The media did a cracking job of demonising teachers when they went on strike.

I know a few teachers, and they are demotivated, they can't do right for doing wrong. Schools in this country are an absolute mess.

It doesn't help that when little timmy is not progressing, it's the teachers fault, it's got nothing to do with little timmy not doing his homework and fucking around in class.

Teachers are seen as babysitters, there was a thread about inset days, and it was crap to see parents moaning about having to take a days holiday, or get an actual babysitter. The inset day had been on the school calendar since the start of term.

This sums it up

Could you see other areas shutting down for a day for training? How would it go down if 999 call takers all stopped working for a day, or social services, or a&e

Wouldn't happen without adequate cover being put in place

It's TAs...

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My DP works an average of 62 hours a week, 46 weeks of the year... Much more than 37

Do when are teachers meant to do the training play ?

This training is beneficial to your children's learning.

I think what I'm saying is teachers DO NOT work 6 or 7 hours a day and DO NOT get 12 weeks holiday.

I just hate some the pettiness some parents moan about, like teachers haven't already got enough on their plate!

bloodymincepiez

Yet retail staff being asked to work minimum wage in Boxing Day - well, they signed up to do it. Madness!

"they signed up for it" is exactly the response that teachers get.
I am also happy to take criticism of my work, when positive, constructive or if I have done something wrong,. However, when it is because I am following school rules (i.e. your child hasn't followed school rules) then you and any others need to wind you necks in.

A good teacher is worth her/his weight in gold, and never forgotten - if you're truly a good teacher then know that you'll be remembered by students for the rest of their lives!

Sadly most are mediocre at best.

Well you have several weeks a year where there are no children getting under your feet

I don't think it was the media.

Striking ultimately does no favours to the profession in respect of the perception of it by society and by the government. I'm not sure a strike has ever resulted in something favourable to the profession since perhaps the early 2000s.

PlayOnWurtz
"Could you see other areas shutting down for a day for training?"

Are being goady?

Play read up before you comment. INSET days were taken off the holidays. Pupils did not lose anything.
Holidays are unpaid.
Sigh

But teachers are contracted to a certain amount of days per year, this includes inset days.

Again teachers are not babysitters.

I will try again

PlayOnWurtz
"Could you see other areas shutting down for a day for training?"

Are you being goady?

But Boney, you are not on minimum wage, expected to work anti social hours (in terms of physically being in work) you have a pension, sick pay and maternity pay. Many retail workers do not.

There is adequate cover put in place, Play, unless you don't consider the child's parents capable of looking after their child?

Well in some cases the parents really aren't the best option

And no I'm not being goady

bloodymincepiez But do most retailers take work home with them every evening and have to work at home on their days off? Most workers, when their shift ends clock off and go home

Competitive moaning is pointless. Agreed.bloody

That's not what I see on here. What I see here is people from outside the profession, sometimes from very specific situations inside it, generalising that "all teachers are".

I don't moan. I do occasionally get totally sucked into an argument pop on to teach threads to offer a point of view.

I think in any profession you get people saying they have worked more hours than anyone else....I live opposite a primary school, and the teachers get in after eight (not there when I drop off DS in preschool club), and gone by 4.30, when I pick him up.....in Summer holidays they are only there the week before school starts....but not every day that week....yes, they may do work at home, but then, so might people in other professions. I understand as they get more experience, less planning to do as they can rely on last year's plans etc... Indeed it's a very good profession and there are some really good teachers, just as in any other profession.....

Have you ever worked in retail or do you know any retail managers? Most are expected to be able to receive calls through the night to respond to alarm calls. Most have to cover shifts when people pull sickies. Most work at times when most people are with their friends and families. Most retail work is antisocial hours.