To ask teachers what your pet peeves are?

[Collettegirl]

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

Does every class have a TA?

I don't have a T.A.

Oh and not lighthearted at all big peeve: parents who never listen to their child read, especially when said child is really struggling and you've asked them over and over to. It feels like they are consigning their child to very poor chances in life.

I think the main issue with children in nappies in Reception is having someone to change them. There aren’t many TAs these days thanks to the government so it can be so difficult.

I’m not sure parents appreciate the funding cuts schools experience. We are right down to just TAs for 1:1 and a couple of class TAs shared by the whole school. So the example where an ASD child needs warning about a supply teacher by being taken out - who is going to do that if your head is in a meeting, your deputy is in class and there’s no TAs? Take someone else’s 1:1 to do it? It’s so difficult. There are so many intervention etc I’d love to put on but I don’t have anyone to do it.

My peeves-
When you say ‘you will need a whiteboard and pen’ and then 20 mins later realise John has sat there doing nothing as he ‘doesn’t have a whiteboard’ as it’s on the next table.

Parents who don’t think their child lies. They do.

Parents who send in a note saying John needs to be kept in at break and lunch this week as he’s got a sore throat. Who’s going to supervise him? It’s my break too and sometimes I need to go off site.

Okay hands up, dd1 wasn't great at dressing herself in reception. She could do shoes etc but had never had a blouse with buttons in her life and it only dawned on me 4 weeks before she started. We tried a few times but I also had 1yo twins and dh working away so despite it being top of teachers' lists it wasn't top of mine.

Dtds started school fully independent despite being youngest in the year (end of August).

We're all learning at parenting and I definitely babied dd1 as I didn't realise she could do as much as she could. I bloody fed that dc until 2yo when I realised others her age fed themselves and she was doing it at nursery!

in one word PARENTS
not believing teachers
arguing the toss over things
not reacting when they should
Over reacting when they know nothing

I have one TA for ten sessions per week (out of 30 sessions). Four of those are when the TA is with my students during their specialist times (Art, PE, etc), so I only have a TA for six sessions per week. 1 x ASD, 1 x intellectual disability, 1 x ODD, 1 x ADHD, 1 x physical disability, 5 x behavioural issues, 4 x EAL in my classroom.

Even after diagnosis, teachers still get frustrated with him! my Ds is 28, had a diagnosis since ten, but there are still times I have to walk away and count to ten.(like now. Is it too early for wine?)
I love propelling pencils (and fountain pens) too. First thing they do, click the top, lose the lead. Cheap wood pencils from now in. The kid that picked up my fountain pen to "borrow" was on thin ice though. (Joke!)

Mother I wouldn't worry, it's expected in Reception. I was similar with mine. It's the hardest thing, to step back and gets worse when they're teens!

Oh yes dotdotdot - what is the fascination with dismantling pens?! And then I get "Miss, my pen's exploded!"

No shit, Sherlock. Was that before or after you broke it into 28 pieces?

Exactly Midnite. I might get frustrated with my son, when I have to give instructions several times for example. The difference I have found is that I do something about it, rather than moaning to someone else about it! I break down instructions into smaller chunks, use visual aids etc. So I don’t have to repeat the same instructions over and over and get frustrated!

Parents who send in a note saying John needs to be kept in at break and lunch this week as he’s got a sore throat. Who’s going to supervise him? It’s my break too and sometimes I need to go off site.

Yup, this one always amuses me. "Joey needs an extra ten minutes to eat his lunch, so you need to keep him in." Joey is 8/9 years old and if he shut up for two minutes and shoved food in his face, he wouldn't need any extra time. And we have a whole playground full of places he can sit and eat his lunch, so he can bugger off out of my classroom and find somewhere else. I have yard duty/work to do that doesn't include watching Joey eat a sandwich.

Colleagues who leave "my" classroom in a state

Colleagues who take the register incorrectly or don't take the register leading Heads of Year like me on a wild goose chase when a student appears to be "missing"

Colleagues who don't read safeguarding or SEN information about students and then do the opposite of what's been advised

Colleagues who don't follow the behaviour policy and then blow their tops one day after a month or more of - unsurprisingly - awful behaviour and expect the Head of Year to bollock / expel / imprison / torture every child in the class. Then claim 'ugh there's no support' when reminded to follow the behaviour policy.

Colleagues/managers who send breathtakingly rude emails

Students who try to leave the classroom with chairs and tables out of place and waste paper on the tables or floor (and usually at least one of their own possessions left behind)

Students who open their mouths hippo style in my face to "prove" they're not chewing gun

Parents who complain about their child being sanctioned for chewing gum as "you should just be teaching them"

I think I'm going to buy a set of pink Disney pens with furry toppers to give out to all the 15yr old boys who don't have one with them!

Students who open their mouths hippo style in my face to "prove" they're not chewing gun

THIS SO MUCH

also exercise books that smell of fag

ew

I teach secondary. My pet peeves are:

• turning up without equipment
• late homework - if it doesn't get marked with the same pile, it's difficult to slot it in amongst the other piles of marking!

I remember being in Reception and still struggling with zips and laces and being annoyed when everyone else was doing them OK. Looking back, it was likely cos my birthday is July so I was one of the youngest there.

I'm a TA every morning in a Yr 1 and 2 class. Every class has a TA in the morning at our primary and one in the afternoon to do interventions. I see so much teacher time wasted dealing with helicopter parenting, parents not believing teachers, parents thinking their child always tells the truth. My parents always believed the teacher. There has been a huge shift regarding that over the last 30 years and not for the better.

parents basically who sign up to an oversubscribed school then spend the next 5 years moaning about the deal
they KNEW THE UNIFORM RULES

parents who send their kid to a church school then complain there is god in stuff

for fucks sake

Students who want to wear (a usually large fluffy bright pink) scarf inside school as they have a sore throat!

trainers because of ' foot pain' ffs

TES has posts about TAs who refuse to change kids still in nappies. If it is not in their job description, they can not be made to.

parents who send their kid to a church school then complain there is god in stuff

This.

My life would be so enhanced if we could get rid of fucking homework (there is a place for us it at gcse though)