...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]

I think everyone deserves their holidays regardless of their job and there is nothing wrong with looking forward to / celebrating them.

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...I don't grudge them their holidays- of course they deserve them as much as the Drs, secretaries, cleaners etc of this world but the mass end of term onslaught which doesnt seem to come from other professions just makes me think [hmmm] crikey is it that awful? In my dc's school there are class sizes of 12-15 at the most so possibly vastly different to the majority of the country.

Btw, the kids are ace - it's everything else that's shit!

Given the amount of parents who feel the need to declare themselves in need of a large gin after bedtime, is it any surprise that someone looking after 30 of the little darlings might feel the same

It’s just a light-hearted remark, meant to be wryly humorous, like when you sit down with a glass of wine/cup of tea at the end of your working week and say “I need this” or whatever. Don’t waste your emotional energy taking offence over daft things like this.

No need to wait till the end of term for a glass of wine.

To be fair, the only posts I see wittering on about how hard being around kids is, how awful it all is but #allworthitthohonest, relentlessly, are from parents. Yeah, teachers did choose that job, just as parents chose to have a kid.

How many days of this year did you need to look after the needs of over 30 young people simultaneously for 7 hours?

My friend is a primary school teacher. She gets told to "go fuck yourself miss" etc etc etc on at least a weekly basis. There's not enough money in the world you could pay me to ever be a teacher

YABU.

My mum used to be a teacher. She was constantly unwell and stressed. The day she gave up that job (and started doing another job) , she became the nice, kind, pretty mum I'd had before. Teaching is a very very tough job.

I think teachers do a marvellous job and deserve their summer holiday and lots of wine.
I work term time only (I'm nit a teacher). By the time each of the holidays come round I'm desperate for a break.....I can't take any annual leave. I understand why the teachers celebrate the coming of the holidays.

Most people I know declare they deserve a drink after one day at work, if teachers only make these comments at end of term, I find that impressive!

"In my dc's school there are class sizes of 12-15 at the most so possibly vastly different to the majority of the country."

Well yeah, course it's vastly different to most of the country then! Is it a private school?

Yabu. Hats off to teachers everywhere. In fact, I've bought my dds teacher a rather nice bottle myself for them to enjoy.
Most kids are nice, most parents are nice, but the shitty few of either kid/parent can really ruin a day.
Daily on mn there'll be some ridiculous entitled parent rant, which makes me glad I'm not a teacher.

The mass onslaught of teachers saying this is because we all start the holidays around the same time surely?
Whereas other professions have holidays at different times.
If you knew just how often I wake up worrying about someone else’s child, you’d know why we are knackered! The kids are great. It’s the paperwork and parents that make it hard.

I suspect the OPs kids are probably the reason the teachers need wine.

No. I've volunteered in a school. I've got an idea of how hard they work:
I say I'm looking forward to a drink when my son goes to bed daily, doesn't mean a thing

I give them all wine at the end of the year!

What do you want OP, for teachers to sip chamomile tea while they look lovingly at your child's class photo on their bedside table, whispering, "Roll on September! I sure hope these 6 weeks fly by!"?

Have you taught GCSEs, OP? I'd be planning my own funeral if I had to do what my son's teachers have been doing with them this past year.

fuck no.

most parents are relieved when they can send their one or two children back to school at the end of the holidays, imagine having thirty of the little darlings...

then there is all the paperwork and planning that you do not see, which will probably take up at least half of the holidays during the year.

YABVU - i can't help but feel teachers have one of the hardest jobs, given my flashbacks of how horrible I was to mine

At my sons' school they bloody have earned it. They've earned a nightly vat. Some of them work so hard in quite grim conditions now. Senior management do not deserve a drop in that place though. Senior management deserve to be on boot camp for the whole summer.

It’s all pretty intense working in schools, and it ramps up at the end of the summer term.

Teachers are consistently pulling in 12+hr days.

They deserve to celebrate their hard work. It’s normal

No it's just them saying they've worked hard and they deserve their holiday. I'm a credit controller- am I being unfair to my customers saying I deserve a beer after dealing with their crap all day.

Let me tell you about my week... and I'm just a lowly TA..
Monday... took several children with severe autism to Forest School. One runs off constantly, another attempts to eat every inedible (and potentially poisonous) bit of vegetation they can find. None can be kept on track without one to one supervision every single second. In the afternoon, repeat, only one child is highly aggressive and I've been punched at least 10 times.
Tuesday... 8 kids, three with highly challenging behaviour (bite, kick hit, attack other students) |Out on the minibus in the afternoon... lovely jolly barring one throwing his shoes out of the window on the dual carriageway...
Wednesday 1:1 with the most challenging individual I have ever worked with. I adore him. But he is in constant attack mode and has to be kept away from all other pupils at all times. In the afternoon he has explosive diahorrea, covering me, all our clothing, and as the rest of the class are swimming I have no back up..it's me and a poo covered child who is now naked and refusing to be cleaned.
Thursday... a relative break as I'm 1:1 with a child who has severe disabilities. Just tube feeds, massive seizures several times through the day, physio, nappies etc
Friday... one with severe disabilities..tube feeds, standing frames, physio, but he's not 1:1 so I'm trying to keep hold of the other child, severely autistic with poo smearing tendencies..
Of course I can't ignore the other pupils in class, just my primary responsibilities are my allocated pupils.

Rinse and repeat.
Tiny classes as special ed. But is every member of staff counting down to the holidays? You bet we are. And most of us have our own children at home...

And I still think my job easier than some of the mainstream TAs and teachers.

If you don't think it's a hard job go retrain (I could teach but choose to be a TA now as I have my own disabled son)... see how 'easy' it is!