To ask teachers what your pet peeves are?

[Collettegirl]

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

In a rights respecting school..... lots of pupil demands about their rights but not much about their responsibilities!

^And year 11 girls who believe it's their God given right in the run up to mocks and GCSES to spend the whole lesson discussing prom plans.*

This ^^^

Secondary TA here

Pupils who have no pencil but have an iphone 8 sticking out their back pocket. Don't parents notice that when they're leaving for school?

Parents who phone their child during class times and their child just has to take the call (this actually happens frequently!).

Mobile phones are a plague upon education.

This thread is going to piss people off. My DD couldn't do up her shoes or zip when she began reception

Why couldn't she though? Children won't 'just know' these skills without learning them at home from parents will they?
Fine motor skills need learning and practice there's plenty of toys available which mimic these skills.

youthecat Well it might be.

One reason why there are more children starting school in nappies/unable to talk/dress themselves etc is because there are hardly any special schools any more. And the ones we have left you need a bloody letter from God to get into.

It's all about inclusion now, especially in primary.

However parents are aware that not all schools are that inclusive. And when a school gets a reputation for being inclusive then parents of children with SN will hear about it and send their children there. That is why, in my DD schools they had 8 children start in reception last year with an ASD diagnosis.

I am not saying I agree with this crazy system by the way.

Sandland Teachers don't get a choice whether they set homework or not. I personally wouldn't.

And on a lighter note..

I like propelling pencils so I always have a few which I am usually willing to lend out. Unfortunately the first thing a pupil does when they get on is take them apart!

In the last three Reception intakes I’ve had to deal with at least one child who has come into class not toilet trained.

We’ve sorted it within months but it’s unpleasant for the child and it’s an awkward conversation the teacher has had to have with those parents.

Agree dot, they are like an addiction and affect concentration

Ok, I'm going to say it... fidget 'aids'. They may help your child to concentrate but they stop others from doing so.

have a look on the Clarks website, you'll struggle to find school shoes that are not velcros! It takes a special effort to send a reception school to school with laces.

What do teachers do if a child comes to school in a nappy? It doesn't happen here unless a child is in a special school/unit or has an DNA.

Violent parents who punch members of staff in the face.
Abusive parents who are so rude to someone that they hand their notice in.
The fact that there isn’t the money for SEN support and that children who desperately need it miss out. That one child like this will disrupt lessons by getting aggressive, ruining the lesson.
The fact that the senior leadership team, none of whom teach anymore, do their best to avoid getting involved with actual children and treat them instead as statistics - children are just percentages on a screen to them.
Love teaching though apart from that! Yeah, I’m cynical though - probably been doing it too long. I’m cynical, but caring and dedicated and I’m very good at my job.
Oh and the running out of whiteboard pens.

Sorry that's SNA.

I've thought of another one. Staff who hoard supplies.

sooty they just have to get on with it and rightly so. Whether it is SEND/undiagnosed SEND or a feckless parent, the child has a right to an education.

Violent parents who punch members of staff in the face

I don't think that this comes under the "pet peeves" category!

Kinsorino, I think there are only a couple now still in nappies and believe they do have additional needs, which is fair enough. Nobody minds helping a child that needs it. It's what we do. The nursery staff have managed to toilet train the rest. My point was it took a supreme amount of effort to get mine out of nappies at 3. I spent the whole summer cleaning up wee, encouraging using the potty/toilet. There just seems to be a small amount of parents who really can't be arsed because school will do it.

Do the teachers change them?

That lovely task generally falls to TAs.

Sooty in my class , as the TA, it’s my job to sort out and help those with their toileting needs.

My sister is a teacher and I know she really didn’t appreciate when parents would start on her because she dared to either question their child’s behaviour/parenting/give homework/send a letter/any minor ailment. It was a very volatile school but she loved her kids.

I personally never quite forgave Mrs Elliot in year two for forcing us to call our jumpers woolies. So it works both ways really!

Even after diagnosis, teachers still get frustrated with him!

A diagnosis does not mean that things aren't frustrating.

I've have a child with ASD in my classroom. Some of his behaviours are down to his ASD and we work with those and put strategies in place. Some of his behaviours are because he is an 8 year old child, and those frustrate the heck out of me, just like many of the behaviours of all the other 8 year olds in my classroom frustrate me.

If any parent of a child with SN has never been frustrated or upset by the behaviour of their child, then they are a saint. But everyone gets frustrated sometimes, and that's ok. It's how you react to it with the child that is important, not whether you walk into your office at lunchtime and tell your colleague 'Joe is doing my head in today'.

Not really a peeve but I really do deserve an Oscar for my superb acting skills in looking genuinely amazed when I see the millionth wobbly tooth, 2 inches from my face, on the face of a very excited year 2!