Sorry, as an ex teacher I am sat here a tad agog!
because it seems TAs will be leading some classes, who are not trained as teachers. When we teachers screamed this, went on strike because of such stuff, where were you?
I know, moaning that we were striking for better pay... we told you that was the only legal right to strike we had, so we were using it but what we wanted you to know was that your kids were having their education diluted. But few listened, threads here were vitriolic!
Home Ed has long been touted as something many posters would like to do, cos they'd be really good at it.... Lets Do A Delia, shall we, Let's Be 'Aving You! Where are you?
Most teachers I know are working, have worked all the way through their non paid holidays so far and expect to do so through summer too. They are working to give almost total wrap around care for the children who do go in, not teaching, crowd control. They cannot teach as they don't know who will be in, have very mixed groups and cannot teach everything to every child. DSis pulls 12 - 14 hour shifts, picking up and droping off a couple of kidsp from another school as she goes. She is not the only one who goes out of her way to offer additional help!
"Take time of in lieu" some posters say WHEN??? When would you accept was a good time for any teacher to do that? Which bit of the next term or so?
AND she is running her school as a HUB, dealing with parents form 3 other schools, she isn't even the HT, he is drowning in another work load altogether!
Add to that the fact that teachers are also just as human and fallible as anyone else. They too are scared, tired and not necessarily straight thinking when it comes to a disease that could kill them! Like nurses and all other key workers, they have had far more daily exposure than most here.
Whilst we have been pounding our keyboards in fury, in our own homes, they have been remaining calm and collected in front of equally scared pupils.
So sod off with your teacher bashing. Your not so veiled hints that they may be making themselves unpopular (no shit Sherlock) and maybe unemployable, unwanted, uneccesary!
Like so very many other jobs teachers are sitting ducks for such vile twattery. Having to bite their tongues, be pleasant to even the foulest and deranged of parental comments, take it for granted that Little Jimmy's failings are actually their own and they could do better for every child, etc etc.
Let me take the opportunity to tell you all to fuck off!
Something I wanted to do on an almost daily basis when I was teaching when I or a colleague was harangued by a student, a parent or SMT about something that really was not within our control but had, for some inexpsicable reason, been devolved to us!
Shit! If teachers really were as responsible for all things as you want us to be we'd rule the bloody universe! But no, we sit politely at our desks and smile at you, agree that we all need to do more...
I would agreee, but don't hink you'd like the things we would choose to do more of (like actually teach and make all kids responible for their own learning).