I agree, it sounds as if he lost it a bit. Teachers are human beings who, quite honestly, do ridiculously hard jobs.
The staff at my school take the whole school - 1000 teenagers on a day of trips at this time of year. They start organiisng the trips in January. Risk assessments for the whole trip, individual risk assessments for particular students with issues, money collection, ringing parents to chase up permission slips, allocating staff roles and responsibilities, Local Authority trips paperwork packs to be completed, governors permission to be sought, first aid kit and packed lunches for those on free school meals to be organised, school sun cream, students' on medication, registers, parent contact numbers, school mobile phone etc.
One trip of about 300 goes to Lightwater Valley and it sets off at 7.00am so teachers are leaving home at 6 or earlier to get to school in good time. Teenagers can be very challenging on hot buses and in environments like Light-water Valley/Alton Towers. There are so many riskassessments in place that have to be followed by staff.
It is not a nice day out. Staff count students all the time, sit amongst them on buses to maintain good behaviour, organise litter collections so the buses are clean, deal with travel sickness, illness, tears, fall-outs and that's just on the bus.
At Lightwater Valley they patrol constantly keeping an eye n children to make sure they are safe and one teacher remains in a central place as an emergency contact. It is usually hot and they spend hours standing around, walking around, spending money on lunch, cold drinks.
The bus drivers are on a schedule and if students don't turn up on time they get grumpy. But for a teacher the feeling of utter dread as every minute passes and students are not there is awful. You ring their mobile-if they don't answer you feel sick. You have a message over the tannoys if possible- if they still don't turn up you start thinkng about what you are going to do. Alert the park staff? Ring the police? What about the rest of the students and the buses- are you going to have to stay behind and let them go or do the other 298 have to wait in the hot sun on a bus? When do you alert the school and parents? What if they have been hurt or abducted or are ill somewhere?
It is a horrible feeling and I can understand how you might lose it - not saying it's what I would want to see but I can understand- when they amble up grinning because they forgot the time or were in a queue for a ride. Part of it is relief to see them, part of it is anger at their selfishness.
Then there is the now 3 1/2 hour journey home because you'll hit rush hour on the A1. Tired teenagers, irritable teenagers, loud teenagers, hot buses, travel sickness, sunburn victims, overheard bad language, litter.
The staff get back to school at 7 or later count everyone off the buses, wait for those whose parents are late collecting them, ring parents who have forgotten, make sure the bus is tidy, take all the stuff back into school and set off for home about half 7.
Not a penny of overtime or time in lieu. The next morning they will say how wonderful it was, lovely opportunity to spend time with students, how 99% of them were a pleasure to be with, how proud they were of them and will sign up for next year's trip.
So Zzz1234 I find your mean-minded rush to the internet to put a 'what I saw today/beat the teacher' post quite pathetic. It is no wonder teachers are leaving the profession in droves. I imagine, frm experience, the teacher's colleague spotted what was happening and diffused the situation. Probably the teacher put it right with the girls on the bus. Meanwhile, you rushed to post an inflammatory account on the internet. You should be ashamed.