To ask teachers what your pet peeves are?

[Collettegirl]

Personally mine are wet playtimes, and children who don't have a pen/pencil.

Children who spend all lessons, carpet time and transition time, lining up etc -talking. What can they have to talk about for hours and hours?
Parents who let their 7 year old children play 18 certificate x box games and watch inappropriate youtube content from 4pm-12 am with no bedtime, and are surprised their child is tired all day , can't concentrate and plays violent playground games.
Parents who don't smile at or say hello to their child at pickup time and just hand the child their phone to play on.

I gotta admit that following a few of these that ds’ year one teacher seems to take his dyspraxia with good humour. Trying to get gloves on him is like trying to get a tutu on a chicken but it seems to not make her annoyed.

Flipping their water bottle, marking their homework and finding they have completed it with a gel pen(even though year 6 should know better).

Re:Toilet breaks. I never let them go, they soon learn not to ask as it is pointless.

The photocopier.

Toner. Waste toner box. Jams. No paper!

Also, reading this thread makes me see how different we all are - I always allow toilet trips (unless it's multiple times in one lesson) and I teach upper primary.

It also makes me really glad I'm on maternity leave, even if I did only get 5 hours sleep in 40-60 minute chunks last night!

@hodgeheg92. That photocopier sounds a nightmare.

If any children are being left in wet or soiled nappies I hope the school involved is telling the parent the amount time the child has been left every time it happens.

Parents can be very good at securing the right support for their child even when schools think it is impossible.

Besides needing to know because many of our children cannot communicate effectively so we are left wondering what happened at school to cause the problems afterwards.

Lol at toner. So true

Having to set cover when you’re ill. Although apparently tradition rather than law

Kids drinking all the time like babies. Have a drink then put it away ffs

Parents who make

Sorry. Pressed send to soon.

Parents who rather than being aware of a kids illness make it and all encompassing thing that defines the kid. And the kid is fine jn lessons with a few adaptations. But it’s. Ever enough.
I’ve taight at least three kids where I’m convinced the parents have munchausens

melon
In our department the 'rule' is 'if you have something straightforward you want doing, send it in but no pressure. You're unwell so let people with leadership points sort it out for you. Rest and get better'.

It's so much nicer than schools who expect staff to send cover when ill

Allowing a child to piss itself in order to teach about toilet breaks is medieval. A classmate of DD's pissed themselves because someone annoyed a teacher about taking loo breaks mid lesson about 12 years ago.

The parents who think their child is the only child in the school
Parents who think their angel can do no wrong
The parents who think their ‘clever and gifted’ child should be given all your focus and attention...there are others in the class that need my help more.
The parents who think places on school trips should be decided on ability...Johnny didn’t get a place because you didn’t send the form back and no I am not going to bump someone in a lower set off the trip so a place can go to your ‘clever and gifted’ son.

I taught secondary. Lack of pens was very annoying. I would give all mine out to a class and by the next time I saw them none of them would have one again.

Pupils arriving late and disrupting the class but saying they'd been discussing 'personal matters' with their tutor/head of year/learning mentor, etc so you couldn't argue with it.

I taught English. The phrase 'this helps the writer to get their point across'

Oh and the question: why do I need to learn English? I can speak it already.

deptfordgirl Also, ‘this creates an image/picture in the reader’s head’

@deptfordgirl and @PixieN as a primary teacher I can only apologise but before them I was getting "cos it makes it interesting" and I have to give the kids a better stock answer to write!

Oh and the question: why do I need to learn English? I can speak it already.

Or

Why do I have to do English, I already know it innit? Them foreigners need it.

Blimey! I can see why some children don’t like school very much!

Blimey! I can see why some children don’t like school very much!
Because some people laughing abiut things that annoy them at work means they must hate children and be the meanest most nasty person on earth.

Well off to ruin some lives today.

Shedmice Can you also see why some teachers don't like school very much either?

(And before anyone suggests maybe finding another job then, they should perhaps read up about the current retention crisis in schools)

Hi I'm not a teacher but when I was at high school mid 90s we were grouped according to ability in maths English etc is this still the case?