Why can't Teacher training be done in summer holidays

[daffodil10]

Why do summer holidays need to be extended by 3 days to cover inset days when teachers have had 6 weeks off. And before I get shot down I realise they may have been in school over the holidays etc. But what is the point in going back to school on a Thursday

Years back teachers did other jobs in the summer. Some still do.

My dad did to earn extra money with old colleagues from pre teaching industry.

Perfectly legal contract wise.

These days I'm too flipping knackered to even think of it. Even exam marking can't tempt me

Nothing happens
I've heard of people getting removed from the GP's list for being aggressive to staff.

thanks rafa

dont remember school as such except i hated it

Liadain its mad not saying i lik school hols but i wouldnt do that job for anything

Dressjunkie it was an INSET day

Teachers barely have time for a pee break on teaching days. Pub lunch? I bloody wish!!

Nicw to know my DCS are spending their afternoons being taught by people who have been to a "booze pub lunch".

Ffs, dressjunkie, RTFT properly. That was referenced to some teachers who were seen having lunch in a pub ON AN INSET DAY. No teaching that afternoon, so your worries are unfounded.

So now we've got the question out the way for this year...
See you all same time next year?
Back next year.

Question is, will you be tuning in for the next season of 'predictable school threads' where somebody has bought items that aren't in the uniform, insist they are and then start a thread saying 'AIBU to think teachers are bullies for pulling child up for uniform? Said non uniform item doesn't affect their learning so I've said tbey won't be doing a detention and now my child is in solitary confinement having their human rights removed'.
Equally likely thread 'my child got x score on sats and a peer got y. Why is my clearly gifted child not in top set? Shall I complain'

Eh? Teachers don't go boozing at lunchtime and teach in the afternoon!!

Actually, when I started teaching (eons ago), we all went out for lunch on a Friday and my HoD had a half. It is unthinkable now!!

@dressjunkie66 rtft and stop picking out random sound bites ffs. It smacks of being a GF.....which I'm sure you're not trying to be. 😐

Nicw to know my DCS are spending their afternoons being taught by people who have been to a "booze pub lunch".
Not sure a driving instructor could get away with that one but, heyho, it's only our DCs education.

That's not what was said dressjunkie and you know it. These are not on days when pupils are in school (and not all teachers do this, me included) but to infer that teachers should be tee-total 100% of the time is just ludicrous.

I can see you are desperate to cut teachers down, but you are just proving our points.

Hahahaha yup. I give it til Friday

Maisypops gosh sorry for asking. Promise I will never ask an innocent question again !!

Maisy, I had that uniform drama this morning. FML. Shouting and swearing because they purchased (clearly) incorrect uniform!

teachers go to pubs?

well i never

teachers go to pubs

Some are even let out for a Christmas party as well ]

daffodil10 eh?
Another poster made a joke at the fact this thread type comes up almost every year so I made another joke about equally predictable threads that occur in September.

I have no issue with you asking the question. I do find some of the responses on this thread hilarious (and as other posters have said, highly predictable and poorly informed).

Oh sometimes I think I'm mad to do it Gabs

A group of my staff went to a cafe for lunch on a training day this year and some even had a glass of wine - the shock! The horror!

Mind you, training had finished by then, but I still enjoy picturing the parents frothing like a certain poster above...

Rufustherenegadereindeer1

Around here you would get removed from the surgery and not aloud back.

Liadain
Sounds lovely.

When we have open evening a few of us go for an early pub meal because it's not worth driving home.
I can picture the outrage already.

It took one day

Even if there are no pupils in that day, aren't they supposed to be " learning" some new teaching skill?
Can't do that with a fuzzy head.
No not being a GF, just want to know the true picture.

We only ever go to the pub on the last day of term in the summer, when we have a half day. We spend the time cackling round our cauldrons at the thought of all those parents having to work flexitime or take a half day annual leave to look after the offspring they (presumably) chose to have.

Gentle irony alert again here btw 😉

I'd put a month's salary on the fact that the post about teachers in the pub either a) didn't happen or b) they were spotted in the pub at the end of an inset day. Drinking on duty is a disciplinary offence and would be looked upon very negatively by SLT and the GTC.

Even if there are no pupils in that day, aren't they supposed to be " learning" some new teaching skill

Little secret -sometimes we weren't learning new skills because we'd all worked so hard over the year including our holidays that we had some meetings and then had the afternoon to sort our classroom out.

So sometimes we went to the pub. But that happened very rarely.

IMO it can ONLY be fuelling negative feelings between parents and staff.
Only those parents who can't grasp the actualities.

Can't do that with a fuzzy head. To imply that all teachers drink so much alcohol on a working day that they can't function properly in the afternoon is just plain insulting. I wonder if it occurred to that poster who was frothing about having seen some teachers in a (shock horror!) pub, that they might have been having soft drinks?