ostinato
I think a big part of the problem is that it’s not a small minority of children being let down. Research by UCL indicates that 2.3 million children are not doing any home schooling. That’s 20% of school children.
Terminology such as ‘let down’ is toxic and just adds to the prolific teacher hate in this country, which proves there are a large number of people who assign different standards to teachers than they do others-this repeated issue of ‘sitting in gardens’ is very unfair as plenty of remote teaching can be done at different times of the day (spending hours the night before or from 6am that morning pre-uploading lessons/marking for example). Working from home and lockdown has changed the way many employees work-why should teachers be singled out for abuse for this? (I k ow why really, because there is a real problem with how teachers are viewed in the U.K. and this thread just keeps on proving it.)
The press in general has actually been very unhelpful in stoking bad feeling by mis-using studies like this one above and not asking the right questions to the government briefings/interviews. Piggywaspushed posted a very interesting link earlier in this thread but as usual, most people haven’t read it. I’ll post it again below but it re-iterates that the Guardian article did not appropriately analyse the original report by UCL and it’s fair enough that teachers keep pointing this out our if posters repeatedly keep bringing it up.
twitter.com/MrMountstevens/status/1273391740632924161
Unions telling teachers not to engage, not to mark work, not to do live lessons etc all contribute to the negative views people are developing.
And again, press issues have caused misinformation such as this (unions did not and never did not tell schools not to mark-I recommend reading the full guidance and context)
Again, in addition, from the link Piggy posted, there is an unsupported assumption that live lessons are more effective. The Education Endowment Foundation found no clear difference between the two, but again is a convenient ‘stick’ to beat teachers with (we’ll go back to pensions again after all this because some do just love a good teacher bash, pandemic or no pandemic)
It is also, always so interesting how closely people claim to know the minute by minute accounts of teachers on here. Not even my DH knows exactly minute by minute what I have been doing and I him!
educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Publications/Covid-19_Resources/Remote_learning_evidence_review/Rapid_Evidence_Assessment_summary.pdf
GazeboParry
but the teachers on MN are most definitely moaning about the parents on MN.
Nope. Not one teacher has started a thread of ‘All parents are...’ but the same cannot be said the other way round.
Beatingthisthing
There are some teachers on MN who act as if they're a persecuted minority when they could just realise, it's not a personal attack and so not engage in 'bashing' threads, want them shut down or start new threads with dramatic claims of how they've been personally affected by threads by anonymous strangers on the internet which aren't personally directed to them at all.
If this is your viewpoint, the same can also be applied to many of the prolific TB posters who have used the same and sometimes worse language to hyperbolically describe situations, which have been directed to all teachers.
This is the point. The OP did not mention all parents in their thread title but specific teacher bashing posters. It has been interesting to see some parent posters reacting in the same way as they accuse teachers of reacting but not seeing it (and teachers have been dealing with it on here daily, to be fair, so fair enough, 12 odd weeks later a thread like this finally appears.)