...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]

Help me here OP.

Just where have you heard teachers saying this?

Can you extract your head from up your arse op? Oh no of course you can't. Clearly you don't have one.

Im a night senior carer in a dementia unit and i cant wait till im on holiday, dosent mean i care less about my lovely residents.

@Monty27 OP has no head, or no arse?!

Oh I can sympathise with the OP. When purs were small (20 years ago) the head always gave a speech about her exhausted staff and how they needed their holidays. TBH many parents gritted their teeth and smiled. Especially the one's who had had to book a half day for the end of term church service and were busily scheduling car shares for camp beaumont/cricket club etc for the three weeks they and their dp couldn't cover over the hols. Often muttering "FFS they all had a week six weeks ago at whitsun".

I think it's the lack of empathy around the fact that many many other get 20-25 days pa plus the bank hols and it makes childcare v hard.

MIL taught for 35 years and still will say on Maundy Thursday/2nd Jan "oh have you got to go to work, oh what a shame in the holidays"

liverbird10 oh deffo an arse. It talks out of it.

My mum was a teacher, i literally can't remember her ever saying that.

What i can remember is having piles of books to mark most nights, her having to arrange babysitters ect for PTA meetings, Staff meetings, Parent Evenings, leaving at 7 am and often not being home again till 6. Then in the holidays spending time planning the next terms work, quite often during the summer going in to school with her to set up the display boards, put name stickers on pegs and drawers/desks, sharpen pencils etc. October half term i can remember her more often than not having a cold, because she was frankly exhausted and and run down.

Did she think the kids were horrors, nope, the kids were the best part of her job.

I hear so many people going ohh its the weekend ohh its my holiday yes cant bloody wait, so if teachers do it just shows theg work hard and quite frankly deserve the break

I think it's the lack of empathy around the fact that many many other get 20-25 days pa plus the bank hols and it makes childcare v hard

That wasn't what the OP was complaining about, it was about the implication that the pupils are anything less than angelic, unworthy.

Spending any time at all caring for other people's children makes me want to drink. Hate it, even the ones I don't find revolting.

The thought of all day every day with 30 or so? Yuck.

I quite like MY children, but I assume other people feel the same way about them.

I remember once seeing my DS1's reception teacher walking to school and she was sucking on a smoke so hard. Thought to myself it would take more than a ciggie to get me through her day...

YABU

YABVU

Teachers work very hard at an underpaid and underappreciated job.
They deserve a spa day and an extended vineyard tasting holiday every day.

No. Teachers work hard, so let it go and let them breathe a sigh of relief. Doesn’t mean they don’t love their job. Just means they’re human.

The average teacher works 57 hours a week every term time week. They are referring to this. Please come and join us- it’s easy to find a job and a training place!

I'm a teacher. I love it and wouldn't change career for anything.

I am massively looking forward to the holidays for many reasons and may tell people... the children are the best part of the job, not the worst.

YABVU.
Here have a .

YABVU.

I’ll buy them the wine and uncork the bottle for them too.

No. Working with children must be knackering. Probably easier if you teach from yr3 up.

The children are wonderful. The relentless paperwork and hoop jumping are not. YABU.

I used to be a teacher and I'm glad you have accepted YABU.

I love my current job but I had a bad day yesterday. Just because I was in TGIF mode doesn't mean I hate our service users.

I guess it depends on who they make this declaration to.

Enjoy your holidays, teachers, you have earned them. OP, I used to teach children and they were all lovely but it is exhausting.

YABVVVU. Teachers are human , just like you. I can guarantee that you have done it OP, why on earth can't they?

It's no different than parents looking forward to September when their kids go back to school as they've had a hard job of looking after them all summer! I bet you're guilty of that op!

Doesn't mean you dislike your kids etc, maybe the difficulty of keeping them entertained. For a teacher, the duty of teaching them....and teachers do that for a lot longer than 6 weeks

Seriously??? I’m not a teacher, but can easily see how it’s an incredibly difficult job,

Oh for gods sake OP, really? I'm not a teacher, but I work in a school and believe me when I say, you have NO idea of the shit they have to deal with.

MN seems to be full of people who hate teachers - it's so odd.

YABU. Most people wouldn’t last a week trying to your average teaching job. Jesus.