...to think it's rude of teachers at end of term declaring that they've earned their holiday/deserve a large glass of wine etc.....?

[Semisonic]

Does it not imply that they think everyone's kids are little horrors and that it's such a hard job and we're not worthy?
Maybe all the kids are little horrors, maybe it is a hard job but they're getting paid for it. It was their choice! My job's hard too but I won't bang on about It.
I think it's quite insulting to the parents of the children. No? [hmmm]

I can't speak for teachers but my oh is a support worker in an ASN school. He has spent the last 6 months either at work or doing additional work at home for a club he takes in the school making movies with the kids. He's came to bed every night at 1am sometimes later.
He is regularly spat on, punched, kicked and has had 2 visits to A&E since Christmas.
He would burn out if he didn't have the summer holiday and will vocally celebrate getting a break.
He loves his job loves the kids and makes no complaints he's on minimum wage.

He has every right to say he's glad to get away.

My DH is a teacher. He's been upstairs since 7am marking GCSE papers and writing up some child self guarding issue that erupted 5 mins before the school ended yesterday. Time tables came out yesterday so he's also refereeing that particular shit show. I don't anticipate seeing him today.

This is a pretty standard weekend, in terms of work load. He loves his kids, it's the just the other aspects of the job which take up so much time.

He can't bloody wait for the holidays, nor can I TBH.

YABU
In fact I think they are amazing people!
Teaching my DD to read was so so hard. She was uninterested in learning. I was trying to teach her phonics. A picture of a Rat with the letters.
We sat and sounded out each letter, I said so what does Rrrr-aaa-tt spell. She looked at the picture and said 'mouse'
Her teachers have found a way to get her interested, and actually taught her to read and write! I was amazed. She was always the child to go for the easiest option. With shape puzzles for example, she would find the place you take the shapes out from, and put the shapes in there - she saw it as what is the point in trying to fit these shapes into the tiny restrictive holes when there is a big hole underneath.
What was the point in sounding words correctly when Mummy and daddy know what I mean when I say wah mlmn.
So yes, based on my second child teachers deserve the holidays and deserve the big glass of wine.
Also remembering that our children become educated because of those people. Also their holidays are spent planning lessons and homework. They are not just sunning themselves for 6 solid weeks.
I love my children, they are not terrors but when they go to bed there are days I need wine!

YADBU! That comment is so innocuous I can't imagine how you could possibly be offended by it. Teachers have very high workloads during the term time, and even without the kids being horrors it's bound to be tiring so they have earned a rest and some wine. Nowhere does that suggest children are awful or they have the toughest job in the world.

I'm a SAHM and I've earned this sit down with a cup of tea while DS naps

Plus you know they're probably celebrating that they got our kids through their exams etc which is a good thing

Oh fuck it’s that time of year again
Mumsnet is so fucking predictable isn’t it
You can almost set your clock by it

Jarhead Where has anyone said that teachers have the "hardest" job? It's not a pissing contest; the OP started a thread about teachers, hence the posts about their job. Whether coal miners or nurses have it harder is beside the point.

"Well that's just it JamieVardie I actually love the holidays so I can spend time with my children.
I've not explained myself very well"

That's fine that you love the holidays and spending time with your children.

But would you love spending all the holidays looking after your children and all of their classmates? Every day? While trying to teach them everything the teacher has to teach them, doing her paperwork, dealing with their parents and their issues and demands and grievances? Sorting out lost and forgotten items? On a schedule someone else has devised? At the expense of your own personal time and your own family?

I work for a school and actually I do believe I’ve earnt -

1- my wages (they are pro rata)
2- a bottle of wine especially as the last few weeks of term are always manic
3- my long holiday as I haven’t had a full holiday in 2 years because I’ve needed to do extra hours.

I love my job. I love the kids doesn’t mean I don’t deserve a break or haven’t earnt it.

Turning it the other way how about parents who say “I can’t wait for child to go back to school” does that not equate to them being little horrors!!!

My birthday also falls in the holiday period which is highly convenient for me

YABVU

Most teachers work way over the time they are required to work.
So no. Its payback for all the hours spent doing unpaid overtime.
I totally deserve it.

Not really. Why take it personally? Teaching and looking after all those kids is hard work. My job is very hard. But I wouldn't want to do that. Anyway, why shouldn't they look forward to holiday and a glass of wine. I would.

@Semisonic - at least one previous poster has said what I was going to say - the reason you don't see other professions all saying, en masse, that they can't wait for their holidays, and will be celebrating with a huge glass of wine, is that teachers are the one profession that takes their summer holiday at the same time!

No you are being ridiculous. Teachers deserve their holidays.

Also judging by my DD's school at the moment if I was a teacher it would be the parent I would want a break from more than the kids!

Also I see absolutely loads of people (in all kinds of jobs and stay at home parents) saying they deserve their glass of wine this evening, they deserve their holiday etc.

i think it just implies that your workload was tough and you're tired and need a rest. but going by your theory - isnt that the same in every job then? you are implying your customers/clients are horrors. I dont see the difference between a car salesman saying it and a teacher.

....although, as a parent of 2 (lovely) children, I think I would need more than a glass of wine after having 30 of them for a whole school term/year.

Why do people seem to have such angst against teacher's on here? I'm sure you have similar about your holiday before, why does a job make any difference?

Never understand why people think that teaching is the same experience as spending time with your own children. It's completely irrelevant.

Oh and OP - I am FUCKING DELIGHTED that the holidays are nearly here. HTH.

Do teachers ever stop
working in their holidays! I know I never did, a never ending list.

OP, you sound as if you feel teachers (especially the teachers at your naice school) should be grateful for teaching your children. What an odd way to look at it.

Haven't rtft but you're being so unreasonable. I know plenty of parents that can't wait until the holidays are over so they can cart the kids back to school. And thats their own kids! I'll get some teachers will really miss some of the children, on the other hand yes, they're likely glad to see the back of some. Teachers are so underrated and massively deserve the break

my kids' teachers and childminder definitely earned their glass of wine! my boys are lovely and reasonably well behaved, but they are very energetic young kids and as such exhausting! i know my childminder loves her job (don't know the teachers that well), but it is a hard job.

Piss off OP.