...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.....?

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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]

YABU - sorry, totally agree with
MissMarplesKnitting

It's not necessarily the kids but the workload that has earned them their holiday but yes, teaching 30 five year olds anything is admirable. I'd like to see any of the haters last a week in the job although it probably isn't in their 'remit'? Did you know that your child's education is actually completely down to you, your responsibility, but most people choose to send children to schools.

It's nearly 5.30. I started marking and planning for this week at 8am this morning. I stopped for lunch for half an hour at 1 and I went to the loo a few times.

I can't WAIT for my holidays. I will still do full days of working but it will give me a full 6 weekends that I can spend with my husband. Not just Saturday...

I'm not a teacher and used that phrase every time I have a holiday! Anyone who works hard has earned their holiday and wine! YABVU!!

I absolutely don’t blame teachers for thinking and saying this, I do, I can’t wait for my two week break even though I don’t teach but deal with, how shall I put this, customers who often behave like disruptive children when they don’t get what they want.

Original post- until you’ve actually experienced time in a classroom with the responsibility of the most precious mini people in the world, then feel free to comment. Until then, shush (with my fingers on lips lol)

I can’t wait for my holiday! We break up on Saturday this week and I cannot wait. Yesterday I did 10hours at school in blistering heat helping the PTA with the summer fete, which included carrying the 250 bottles from School out to the field for the tombola. Today I was back in for another 8 hours of sorting out the reports that will go out at the end of term. I’m back at home now, but still doing a bit of work as we have a year group out on a residential and have to tweet photos from the trip for parents. Not hard, but takes some time each time, as you have to check the photos are suitable and don’t contain any pupils you can’t publish images of!

Last week my longest day was arriving at 5.30am and leaving school at 9pm, with a 30min commute either side.

I’m shattered, I haven’t had a day off in ages, don’t see my husband, don’t get to eat at home. I really do think I have earned my holiday! I’m sure i’m not alone from any profession in working hard, but I feel I have the right to say I am looking forward to the end of term! I will be at school working 8 hour days for every day bar 2 weeks of the holiday, so need a rest. My husband who is an accountant keeps saying he has earned his holiday!

Im a teacher, yes I think I have earned a break.

But equally, every person I’ve met in any job who’s about to go on holiday days they’ve earned it/are in need of a rest, so I don’t think it’s specific to just teachers! And it’s not the kids - trust me, it’s not the kids that we need a break from. It’s the planning, paperwork, meetings, laying awake at night worrying if certain children will meet their targets and what you can do to make that happen... it’s the mental load of teaching that we need a break from. Little secret.... we actually miss the kids or at least I do!

I think the teachers deserve that wine/cider/beer/gin (whatever their tipple) and their holidays. They have worked hard teaching our kids all year.

They are not saying all the kids are brats - it only takes 1 or 2 to make work hard anyway - and, they are no difference to anyone else.

Im sure many other peopld leave work for their hols and reward themselves with a nice glass of something and turning off the alarm clock.

YABU.
Try being a teacher ..,

• working 50-60 hour weeks whilst getting sworn at (by kids & parents). I’ve had chairs thrown me.
• constant changes to your job from endless government intervention , not to mention getting to grips with the new gcse curriculum.
• then spending most of your “holidays “ preparing work for the nest year.
• oh yes and don’t forget having your budget slashed so you can’t buy half the resources you need to do a decent job.

Quite frankly i’m Surprised they aren’t drinking more the whole term. And you should be buying them a nice bottle to say thank you.

Agree. Really rude. I hate it. Especially when you are paying 4 grand a term.

Yabu. Teachers workloads are insane. My exh is a teacher so I’ve seen the stress, pressure and stunning lack of work life balance up close and personal.

Let’s see if you don’t sigh with relief at the end of the summer holiday when our kids are due back to school. Give me the name of the school and send the teachers wine as well as champagne

Agree. Really rude. I hate it. Especially when you are paying 4 grand a term.

Oh that's right yeah, because of course by paying you are soooo much more important than State school parents and gain the right to control the teachers every thought and action outside of work 😂😂

Get a grip!

Yeah. Rude. Unprofessional.
All teachers do is moan. They chose the career and they more holidays than anyone else on the planet.

@Downtroddenandrough your payment does not mean you can police their thoughts,feelings or how much they will enjoy their holiday or not(however that is expressed).

Another massive yabu, teaching is a very hard job, it’s a vocation. They should drink all the wine over the summer.

I'm a teacher. It's hard work, with little work/family life balance. I have work to do most nights during term time and planning takes up a big chunk of every Sunday too. I can't attend anything my own children do at their own school, much to their upset and mine, and I have to take my holidays at the most expensive times of the year. This year if I could've gone 1 day before the end of term I could have saved over £1000. It's all consuming and exhausting, but I do love it. However when the summer holidays come around I am a little ecstatic. I just finished on Thursday and as is every year, the first few days are just catching up on sleep and housework. It's not a lifestyle for the faint hearted.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I was a teacher. Now a parent and tutor. I will be bestowing wine on lovely teachers and wishing them a fab holiday. They work so hard and deserve a rest! I know they love my kids and they do so much for our school. They need a break!

I don't think it's any different to me (health professional) clocking off for my holidays and celebrating with a glass or 7, cheering the fact I don't have to go back for a week or two. Doesn't mean I don't care about my patients, and that I won't be thinking of them during my holiday, just ghat like everyone I enjoy (and am entitled to) some down time.

As my screen name implie there's wine in my life! But I only really have more than one drink in the holidays, that's because I work on average 56 hours a week, I work pretty much all day Sunday and juggle family life too. I teach particularly challenging inner city students, most of whom I adore, it's not the teaching itself it's all the other stuff! So yes you will find me in the pub on the evening of the last day of term and then drinking cold white wine in my garden with no marking or planning to do!! (Until the last week and then I'll be working again) I also have perspective on the job as I didn't train until 28 and did two 'stressful' jobs before. Teaching is the hardest and most rewarding job I've done but it needs wine at times!

I bloody deserve my holiday. I don't get 6 weeks BTW.... I'm in at the beginning, and the end, to sort out my classroom, clean it, rearrange, sort out the housekeeping aspects (labels for bloody everything). I plan, order resources, risk assess for the ever increasing amount of high need pupils..... I really look forward to a holiday after a long term. I'm in Reception, so I've been doing new class transitions too. I don't drink, but you'll hear me talking about eating a fuck ton of chocolate. 31 children is a big class. 33 next year.

No, they have earned it

YABU. I'm a teacher, so vested interest here, but most teachers are in the profession because they love working with kids and they want to make a difference. My god, is it exhausting. The days are long and full on. All the time. You're responsible for their safety/wellbeing/learning/meeting objectives/declaring and documenting progress/caring pastorally/reporting/shaping their social behaviour/their involvement in non-curricular activities/cross-curricular activities/marking/planning/talking to parents/assembly presentations/random 'theme' days like "let's celebrate global cinema" day, even though nobody has any clue/local community work/exam prep... Pretty much non-stop. And then... you get to go on holiday. Where you escape for a few weeks and then plan for next year/decorate your classroom/come in for meetings/attend INSET and other training days...

Even after all that (which, I admit is a bit of whinge) most of us still love the job and the kids we work with. But, yes, we probably feel that we've earned that glass (bottle) of wine and a few weeks break. No need to take this personally, we've been working with yours (and all your neighbours') children all year and we really look forward to just a couple of weeks of being normal adults and enjoy some time off being "Miss" or "Sir".

I think I deserve a drink after one morning at work and that doesn't involve 30 kids.