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.

I used to think the same as OP. Then one day my youngest DS played me a recording of one of his lessons and now I think teachers deserve 6 weeks off after each lesson to be honest. I just don’t know how the poor teacher did not just kill those kids. I nearly had a breakdown listening to the recording from stress.

I do believe that teachers complain a crazy amount! DH is a Dr and if he so much as mentions he’s tired after working 13 hour shifts (and randomly being forced to work hours commute away) people are VERY quick to jump in with ‘well that’s the life you chose’ comments - 🤔 yet teachers seem to think this doesn’t apply to them.

I don’t quite understand. One friend of ours is a teacher and frequently complains but is (in my opinion) quite flippant with DH if he says anything! Last time she shot him down about how much worse her career is than his I couldn’t resist a ‘Well I suppose you just can’t compare a term teaching kids a subject... 🤔 to saving lives all day in back to back emergency operations 🙄

I don’t think anyone’s job is more important btw, but think teachers frequently do get very jumped up! You don’t get that from nurses and doctors!

Well we know how teacher industrial action goes down on MN.

DH is a Dr and if he so much as mentions he’s tired after working 13 hour shifts (and randomly being forced to work hours commute away) people are VERY quick to jump in with ‘well that’s the life you chose’ comments - 🤔 yet teachers seem to think this doesn’t apply to them.

I don’t see any difference.

Doctor complains about being tired: people jump on them for it.

Teacher complains about being tired: people jump on them for it.

YANBU OP. I have seen a few posts myself over the past several weeks with the holiday countdown from teacher friends . I am in Ireland so all primary schools are finished now until the first week in September. Secondary schools finished at the end of May. My DD finished at 12pm today. Her school and teachers are beyond amazing so I would never complain about them but my god they get nice long holidays.

I have the solution people..... hold on to your hats.

Why don't all those who think teaching is not mentally exhausting / doesn't necessitate the annual leave they get / isn't all that hard, train to become teachers? You'll get better annual leave allowance, you'll have shorter days, it will be a breeze.

Yeah, thought not.

Its very easy to sit in your ivory tower. Teaching isn't for me, as I couldn't deal with the cuntiness of parents as highlighted on this thread.

There's more posts moaning about teachers moaning than there are about teachers moaning. This leads to the belief that teachers are moaning when in fact they are only moaning about the moaners moaning that they are moaning.

I don't disagree that (most) teachers work hard and have a stresssful job, it's just that loads of other people do too, but without the long holidays and teachers seem to be wanting to be put on some sort of saintly pedestal.

I don't have the time to come across so many teacher tired posts.
I have even less time to post one. I'm just settling down to catch up on love island to numb my mind after just finishing next weeks's planning for your kid.

It's a different kind of tired. It's dealing with 30 complex and unique little egocentrics all day, every day. It's mentally exhausting. Nothing like coal mining or running up and down hospital corridors all day.

teachers seem to be wanting to be put on some sort of saintly pedestal

Nope, I’ve never met a teacher like that either.

I give up. If you hate teachers so much I really hope you don't let them look after your kids every day. Or let them go on school trips in half terms. Because we are such a lazy bunch we might lose them.

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Typical easy comeback. We're not saying you're lazy - not difficult to understand really?

It's not our issue at all.

Yes, we love teachers. We praise teachers.

We just get a bit sick of the constant stream of adoration for their tiring work that they appear to expect.

teachers seem to be wanting to be put on some sort of saintly pedestal

Nope, I’ve never met a teacher like that either.

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Ok- just all those on fbook then?

One last point : I can guarantee that the 6/8 weeks of summer hols for teachers will soon be a thing of the past.

There simply isn't enough money to keep on paying for it.

Yes - I know, how are you gonna teach the kids if they're not there? Dunno - maybe they'll have you doing more prep or something for the upcoming year?

Ity is not tiredness it is exhaustion.
Imagine being with 30 children all day every day who want your constant attention.

I have several teacher friends. None have ever posted how much harder they work than anyone else. The only person, on my SM, who publically counts down to her holiday, is a factory worker 🤷‍♀️

However......If you can read this, thank a teacher 😊

Ok- just all those on fbook then?

As I said earlier, most of my Facebook friends are teachers-I have never seen any posts like this from them!

Rainbows and whatever
I'm a teacher and I'm exhausted.
I don't care what you think.
I don't care about your opinion on the number of holidays I get.
I don't care about your opinion about my (many) qualifications.
I don't care about what you think about the (long) hours I work.
I don't care about your highly stressful job 'in the real world'
I care about your kids though.
Your kids are much nicer (and possibly more intelligent) than you.
The most stressful and tiring thing about my job?
Fuckers like you and your fucking idiotic opinions.

Beardedmum,
Your son recorded a lesson????
Do you have any idea how wrong that was??? So you think that is acceptable behaviour??? How would you feel if someone recorded you at work???

*One last point : I can guarantee that the 6/8 weeks of summer hols for teachers will soon be a thing of the past.

There simply isn't enough money to keep on paying for it.*

To keep paying for the unpaid holidays?

managedmis
Which bit of having our pay equalised over 52 weeks are you not managing to grasp?
We are not paid for our holidays.
You muppet.

One last point : I can guarantee that the 6/8 weeks of summer hols for teachers will soon be a thing of the past.There simply isn't enough money to keep on paying for it

That makes no sense. Teachers are not paid for their holidays. How is making them work longer going to reduce the costs?

Same school of thought that goes on about our 'gold plated pensions'.
They can all fuck off to the far side of fuck.

One last point : I can guarantee that the 6/8 weeks of summer hols for teachers will soon be a thing of the past. There simply isn't enough money to keep on paying for it

Paying for what? It would cost money to keep the school buildings open to have the teachers in working. Currently education gets a bloody good deal out of the work teachers do in their own homes, using their own broadband/electricity, etc. to do school work.

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

And well done, rainbowsandglitterbullshit for starting a goady thread about something that hasn't happened yet. Getting "the rage" in advance is bad for you. Relax, you'll live longer.

Is it not the same as a lot of professions you will always get that one moron in the office that simply just likes to moan about what time he got in this morning, ooh he had to work through his dinner,when the whole office is actually running around like headless chickens.

In most cases all the people who have to shout the loudest about how tough they have it and how hard they work, are probably the ones skiving,trying to do the least lol