Okay, about teachers...

[KitKat1985]

Okay I'm being brave here. I know a few people who happen to be teachers. Whenever they talk about their jobs, there's a real 'no other profession has to work as hard as us' vibe to their speech. I am fully aware and in agreement that it's a stressful job with long hours and ridiculous amount of pressure if you don't count the long holidays but it's hardly the only profession that has these issues. I myself am a nurse, and 14 hour shifts on an under-staffed ward with no breaks and several severely ill / abusive patient to look after are hardly a picnic either. But whenever I discuss work with teacher friends there's a definite 'if you want to talk about stress you should try being a teacher' element to the conversation, and it's starting to really get on my nerves. Lots of jobs are stressful, teaching isn't the only one! And it's only teachers I know that seem to have this general attitude about their profession. AIBU? Is it really more stressful than any other profession out there?

Piggy. See that’s where you’re not reading the posts properly. The OP asked if teachers seem to moan more than other professions, in my experience I answered yes and gave my dsis as one, of several, teachers I know who do moan for no reason. I don’t find my friends in other professions do in the same way.

I was then told that because I’m not in teaching I’m not allowed to have an opinion and that only teachers are allowed that. I was simply pointing out that I don’t think a random teacher who is a complete stranger knows more about my dsis and what she says than I do.

The illiterati appear to be out in force

Another personal attack, I don’t agree with you so now I am uneducated

Only on MN, do people step this low, it frankly says a lot more about you that it does about me.

But doing that does not justify sweeping generalisations

Again the vast majority have NOT made sweeping generalisations, they have however spoken of their own personal experiences as have the teachers on this thread!!!

Feenie and notheresa. You are not making yourself look clever in any way by doing that. It’s frankly pathetic and if you are actually teachers you should be embarrassed at your responses.

If that’s all you have, I think it says a lot about you.

Cool. You have had your little say.

Keep going. Really showing yourself up now.

True colours.

It saddens me haud that you hold all the people you work alongside in such low esteem. I certainly don't feel that about any of the fellow professionals I encounter (other than , of course, the ones who are rude or uncommunicative, or the LAC woman who did once tell me all teachers were useless : but every profession has less impressive people).

I am tickled by your user name but don't want to make a comment about it in case it appears PA rather than tongue in cheek.

And , by the way, one person ONE PERSON ages ago dorset made the Helmand comment. And that was about her own cousin.

I just can't be arsed, quite frankly, dorsetdays - seen it all before. The only to deal with threads like this is to take the piss. If you've lost your sense of humour, you don't have to read my posts! Your choice - just as it's my choice to refuse to engage.

School girl bully tactics, having a temper tantrum and attacking those who disagree with them then resort to personal insults

Humour, in trying to belittle other posters who disagree with an opinion.

Comedy fail!

I've wanted to say this for ages, and feel now may be the time (with massive apols to decomposing) so, so as not to show bias:

it's SMIDGEN !

Now I feel better.

Seen it all before and heard it all before. Some of the less imaginative posters have turned it into a Mumsnet sport. It is sooooo tedious and so pointless to attempt to engage in any meaningful way.

DRAT!!!

Wouldn't dream of bothering to lose my temper.

dorset you’re not reading the thread properly. No one told you you can’t have an opinion. You absolutely can, and clearly do. No one has said anything about serving in the armed forces being less stressful than teaching. When you make things up to try and make the teachers on the thread look bad it just makes you look like an idiot.
I’m not saying you are an idiot by the way.
It just makes your other “stories” harder to take seriously when you are even exaggerating about things that have been said on this thread.

But wait...what’s this?

smidgeon in British
(ˈsmɪdʒən)
noun
another word for smidgen
Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Last time I looked we were in the UK. As in Britain. 🙂

well, that's a convenient revision of the dictionary which I refuse to accept.

Obviously. As a teacher, I am always right.

@CuckooCuckooClock
I concur.

Notheresa. Then why take it so personally. You sound like it’s hit a nerve.

And bullying isn’t cool, on any forum and that’s all you’re doing when you personally attack someone and try to belittle them because you have no other sensible response.

Don’t fall back on the ‘its so boring’ crap , that’s such a cop out and if it’s what you really think, it’s even more embarrassing for you that you’re still on here because it suggests you really don’t have anything better to do.

I have always spelt it SMIDGEON. Your way looks a bit odd.

preens

Eh? What nerve has been hit?

NoTheresa

Seen it all before and heard it all before. Some of the less imaginative posters have turned it into a Mumsnet sport. It is sooooo tedious and so pointless to attempt to engage in any meaningful way.

Ditto, same old school girl tactics as per, pathetic really!!!

It’s really beyond crass, and quite unimaginative with the same old retorts.

Vile behaviour really, throwing a wobbler because of a difference of opinion.

It's Scottish. 'A wee smidge'. You bastards. Stealing our language. Changing its spelling. Insisting you are right about everything.

massively derails thread

You tell me. Clearly something has unless you personally attack people for absolutely no reason 🤔