...do teachers really work that hard?

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I know the general idea on AIBU is that teachers work load is ridiculous, that they work extra hard and that they never never stop to the point that they r all seemingly leaving the profession.

But, AIBU to wonder if they are any different to anyone else? and actually might have it a bit easier? I mean, I also work myself into the ground, am exhausted, never stop etc... But I don't have summer holidays off to look after my kids, and I often work well into the small hours at night.

I'm not saying teachers don't work hard, but sometimes on munsnet I just feel like some teachers kind of spend a lot of time complaining about the workload, when maybe it's just the same as everyone elses, but with a nice long summer holiday?

(Sorry, I appreciate this will really inflame some posters, but it just had been annoying me lately)

Really?! Half your pay? Leave it out. Again you love an exaggeration!!

Does it really matter if it's half,a third or £5?
You seem to think it's entirely normal and not even worth mentioning that teachers use their own money to feed kids,pay for their supplies,resources etc. It's not normal and teachers shouldn't be subsiding classrooms in order to be barely functional.

At no point has anyone who is not a teacher on here used abusive, name calling language. It seems to be only the teachers name calling and using bad language

I see. I expect I dreamt this then:

halfwitpicker Mon 11-Feb-19 12:43:10*

I know of no other profession that does this. None whatsoever. Just teachers.

Please, just shut the fuck up about how hard you work.

I agree, Piggy. From a respectful distance and from outside in the corridor.

er JJ I may be a teacher but I am really not middle class. I am a single mum who works two other jobs to make ends meet (an adult gcse class and tutoring). I have a son with mental health issues and care for my mum. I am proper working class me, and bloody proud of it.

Oh come on in LJ

Although only if you promise not to do swears.

JJ with the greatest due respect how do you know people on zero hours contracts cleaning toilets and in crowded accommodation never moan and are always smiling? I doubt it very very much. How patronising.

Yeah I'm laughing all the way to the bank with my under £900 pay that I take home. So middle class, me.

Thanks Smile. I'm worn down by all this stuff. The lack of respect and constantly being told I'm lazy on Mumsnet is doing my head in. In fact, I do think I'm being a bit of a masochist being on this site at all.

To be fair, at least this actually IS AIBU. It's when one gets piled into on Staffroom that it really grinds my gears.

So a bunch of people who don’t do your job make a load of inaccurate statements about it, you defend your job and that makes you a bitter, angry moaner who should quit?

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat????

Where is the logic?

Everyone’s an expert at teaching because they went to school, because they’re a parent...whatever. That’s why people feel entitled to present their opinion as though it’s abything more than that.

I think the medical profession prob get that a bit too because everyone has been to a GP.

It’s bollocks though LJ. Utter and complete big hairy bollocks.

I’m a teacher & I love my job. The only downside is the parents. I work my socks off!

*Any teacher who told a pupil to f off nowadays wouldn't keep their job. Please stop thinking that because you've all been to school you know anything about teaching in 2019. You really don't.**.

Actually I do - I was a teacher and that was two years ago. It was my last job teaching. I was in for 5 years. I was appalled at the hostility and toxic atmosphere - such a bad example to the young people in the school. Lack of team work, lack of creativity, the worse management on the planet and so much back stabbing and bullying. I have honestly never experienced anything like my time in education. It was very low quality. Apart from the children who were lovely and such a pleasure to work with. It’s just a shame about the rest.

@yoursarcasmisdripping

I'm feeling so middle class, too! Especially around 21 of each month when my Universal Credit comes in, because despite working full time as a teacher, I can't pay for shit! But hey, THE HOLIDAYS...

Hi all. Just dropping by to point at the blackboard. Right next to where some joker has written, 'knob end' - it also says, in large letters, No personal attacks. Please bear this in mind or we'll be dishing out some detentions.

@stopmakingafooloutofme
Now that you got rid of your husband, can you marry me? You're hilarious 😁

I have been teaching for 30 years. I have FELT like telling students and teachers to fuck off. I have never done it and no teacher has ever sworn at me.

I cna believ it has happened : but , in all fairness, in your first post you made it sound like you were a pupil at the time.

I have heard that doctors swear at nurses and that the police swear at each other all the time.

Michael

She started it.

Thank you @MichaelMumsnet. I had forgotten about that. I assume you’ll be seeing CallMeRachel (who called me a scary fucker) after class then?

@joliejoleen let's team up and have a spa day. Isn't that what middle class people do when they're stressed?

Eff snitch 😂

@Michael

But, sir, I wasn't doing anything!
But she was talking too!
But...but...

I would expect my own personal attack to be deleted, however warranted. But what about “no deliberately inflammatory behaviour” also in talk guidelines, and which was clear from the original post this was intended to be?

Jolie - Thanks You won't want to fuck me though, apparently

Still standing by that I didn't call anyone a knob end, Sir! I just said my pupils weren't

But what about “no deliberately inflammatory behaviour” also in talk guidelines, and which was clear from the original post this was intended to be?

Good point!