To feel the rage with “teacher tired” posts

[Rainbowsandglitterbullshit]

The season of teachers posting SM messages “no one knows tired like an end of term teacher/TA/dinner lady” is almost upon us.

I want to scream, what about the fuckers who work stupid hours all week and don’t get 6 weeks off in the summer, half term, two weeks Easter, two weeks at Christmas.

I wouldn’t be a teacher for all the tea in China but these people chose their career.

Grrr, actually don’t care if I’m BU.

And not remotely amusing, entertaining or obviously intelligent Piggy!

How is pole dancing high emotion, just out of interest?

You know what, I am fucking tired.

I've taken 200 kids out on fieldwork this last fortnight, pulling in 11hrs days to do that, four plus hours of which a day were driving kids in the minibus (stressful). I've just finished all the A level and GCSE extra work to get kids through exams. I've got 50+ yr10 mocks, plus 150 other assessments yet to mark. And I've got to sort out the entire KS3 to make it Ofsted ready for the new framework. And teach normal timetable too.

So yeah, I'm running on empty right now.

I'm acutely aware illusion be able get some R&R. I think what nobody outside teaching gets is the intensity of the days. And I was a corporate kid before I taught. It wasn't as hard. Sorry to disappoint but it really wasn't.

But yes, thank god the summer is round the corner. I've got to finish that KS3 rejig and move rooms 😭

It's Friday night, give her a break!!

I’m a teacher...
I finish at 2.40 and LEAVE school at 3.15/3.30 (twice a month we have meetings and We leave at 4.15)
I don’t take marking home very often if at all!
I don’t do extra curricular after school clubs
I can take days off (5 to be exact but not in a row) for personal purposes.
I will not enter the school premises over the summer holidays (I will go back the day before the children in September)
BUT I’m not in the UK...THANK GOD!

Perhaps share all your rage at social media whining on SM so your friends can actually understand they have annoyed you. You could block the posts, too, as I do with all my BIL's posts. Rather more productive. Might upset your teacher friends though.

How is pole dancing high emotion, just out of interest?

I'd imagine there's a fair bit of 'emotion' aroused in the general public

I know I chose the profession and I would not be in the medical profession for all the tea in China BUT I do wish people would realise that the six weeks that your kids are off school I AM NOT!! I am usually actually in school for a week - maybe more if I’m moving classrooms. And then I plan and make the resources for the upcoming term. Do you think classroom displays and lesson plans make themselves? I probably get about three weeks in the summer hols that are actually mine!

Thanks for the tips on SM surfing Piggy, If I’d blocked them, I wouldn’t have posted here, and I’d have missed your first class input.

Yabvvvvu

Teacher tiredness is a different level and when I feel 'tired' sometimes have to remind myself how much easier the better paid job I've had for the last 8 years is. It's a different level of intensity to most other roles simple fact.

high emotion industry

That's so pretentious it's about as amusing as all these mysterious hobbies people do on MN.

cardibach It’s a different kind of tired. I e don’t teaching and not-teaching and while both are tiring, Teacher tired is different in quality. There is no place to hide in a school. In not-teaching if I was tired I could slow down my work rate.

Your last sentence here.

Try that, especially in the lower wage end of the workforce and private sector in particular, and see how long before you get sacked. I have seen people sacked the same day for being too slow.

Teachers are no more tired than anyone else. Tired is tired. They are not physiologically different because they've undergone teacher training.

Pole dancing...eh??
I wasn't trying to be amusing. You do seem to like to accuse others of not bring intelligent. I have no chip on my shoulder there and nothing to prove to you.

Not sure why you are picking me out. I haven't said I am a teacher. I haven't tried to say my job is hard or whined about holidays, workload etc.

Umm you’re right @CandlesOnTheHearth perhaps time for a career change? The hours may be more anti social but I’d get to meet a happier cross section of society. Thanks I’ll look into it.

Op you'd just LOVE Irish teachers. We get 18 weeks off a year. Hardly any paper work and we are have a world class education system. I'm just having a gin by a pool one of my many holidays over this long three month full pay summer. Cheers!

Yawn “13 weeks holiday a year”

Yeah...try teaching and then come back and tell us about 13 fucking holidays a year you halfwit.

I think we are easy to wind up because there’s an overriding rhetoric that we do no work and don’t understand real life and hate everyone’s kids and only do it for the money and and and.
Lots of people work very hard. As a teacher I am v fortunate to enjoy time off every few months.
I work in a failing school though and I have to say I work very hard indeed. But I don’t moan about it to anyone but my husband.

@Bumper1969 whoop whoop..., 😝 I just posted too!! It’s a different world over here!!

Bumper

Cheers to you

Rainbowsandglitterbullshit
I work with the general public in a front facing role in a high emotion industry!

So by the rules of this thread you have it harder than anyone else?

100% agree. They get so much time off yet still moan about being tired and the pay.

Wow thanks for sharing your career OP. Shame I'm none the wiser as to what you actually do. It's interesting that you'll slag off teachers and other professions but won't reveal your own.

The teachers at school always look absolutely exhausted the last couple of weeks of the year, so I am sure they are really tired.

I think the difference is that in many other professions people can have random days off that can help re-charge the batteries - for example I have had the last couple of days off, this is rarely an option for teachers.

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Warm up act for Michael Buble
Go on... Give me another clue if it's any consolation, my mother is a teacher and I've been sick of her for years!

Yup. Report writing and going on MN. I am a master of multi tasking. I'm also drinking a glass of wine. It's my time so I'll sodding do what I like with it. Except I do have to get these reports written

Shayne11

Everyone works solid hard graft evenings AND weekends.

What everyone in every job?
What utter bullshit.

They don’t get 13 weeks off though they get 4 if they’re lucky.

Here's a thought, become a teacher, its apparently piss easy compared to every other job.

You try again.

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