Wow just wow. AIBU to think MH is a complete tw*t

[Moonshine86]

Words fail me

Tbh, the teaching unions are a bunch of arses. He’s saying what a lot of people think….

What, twit?!

I can and will say what I like, teacher or not.

I don’t understand why people aren’t getting into their heads that’s it’s not just about pay. It’s about funding. I have spent hundreds of pounds over the years on stationery, books, school uniform and food for the children in my class. I’ve washed their clothes at home, I’ve paid out of my own pocket for kids to go on trips, to have Christmas lunch or to send them home with a little present at the end of the term because I can’t bear to see the kids who have nothing be left out. A couple of years ago, there weren’t enough exercise books to go around the whole school so we had to have a mishmash of books with different sized lines, covers etc until they ran out then we used bits of paper. We used to have authors in for WBD, there’s not enough money. The cleaners only come in every couple of days now.

I worked all through the pandemic in school. I also helped my headteacher unpack the delivery of hand sanitisers, gloves, masks etc that the government said we had to have then retracted their promise of funding over it so it had to come out the school’s central budget.

I don’t know how to make it clearer that it’s not just about pay. It’s about giving those kids who have nothing a chance.

I will strike tomorrow as I want funding in schools. It’s a shit show. Lazy arse me will miss a days pay yet I’ve already signed up to offer catch up sessions and extra support for students during the Easter break… no additional pay for me.

Why are they arses?

I like to think that even given the chance, I would never be physically violent, but there is something about this kind of person that just makes me think "get them in an orange jumpsuit, and spend a few weeks making their lives miserable".

It's the Teflon coating. It's thinking they got where they are by sheer hard work. It's thinking they can speak on a subject when they have no idea or ability to comprehend standing in those shoes.

And the smugness.

It makes me angry in a way pretty much nothing else does.

In your workplace only one person has died of covid

Only ? Wow. You work in HR? What a treasure.

Oh my god- why don’t people understand that the latest meagre pay rise wasn’t fully funded!!! Schools have no money but they have to pay out for the 5% rise leaving them with even less money than before. Therefore having a huge impact on children as there are fewer staff, resources etc etc. don’t people want better for their kids?! Teachers aren’t being lazy or work any or greedy; we can see what is happening in our schools. We are sleepwalking into a nightmare.

I want a source for the offered increase cited earlier - was it 11% over 2 years? Because of its true, I'll tell my teacher friends to suck it up and get back to work!

No, more your massively sweeping statement declaring the private sector easier than teaching because you happen to have worked in a couple of private sector jobs. Do you realise how that sounds? Unless you have worked in every private sector job you cannot categorically say that teaching is harder. Just as I can't say mine is harder when I've never tried teaching (though I can have a guess).

@Briallen - thanks for the explanation, well that doesn't count then, does it?! It's not new money, taken away from, I don't know, the budget for the MPs dining room or something.

Despicable.

Oh , I wonder what your guess would be bow.

Go for it!

You think teachers can't say words like 'twit'! They're not Mary Fucking Poppins.

What took you so long to form your opinion?

Glaring. Years. Nob. Cheat. Law breaker.

Where have you been?

So many are just leaving. It's a Sisyphean task, trying be be a good teacher. It hollows out so many people.

Work to rule always fails as some just can't do it because they're martyrs to the job. If one doesn't then everyone stops.

The government are nothing but a bunch of smug, entitled, lying wankers.

I'm with you, striking teachers. Thank you for all you do for our children.

Yes, which Hancock and co are responsible for. He's a complete arsehole, as were all of them. I support the strikes fwiw.

For the record, I don’t think teachers are lazy, I think they work very hard. I just don’t like statements from some teachers that their job is the hardest. It doesn’t paint a good light.

That's pretty much what my texts looked like during the late pandemic.

This thread should be read in conjunction with www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4752592-utterly-disastrous-teacher-trainee-applications-for-next-year

Can't imagine why treating teachers with utter contempt hasn't worked as a recruitment tool.

Unless you are actually Camilla, that's not such a big deal is it now?

PS during the late pandemic all schools were open.

Nobody said teaching is the hardest job in the world. It's absolutely not.

However, teachers ARE pig sick of being called lazy, work shy part-timers. It's a constant denigration and it starts with these half wits right at the top, in government

Fully open, I should say, of course .

There's some professions that did hide during covid GP surgeries were boarded up with yellow tape and it was impossible to get appointments. Some teachers didn't want to teach but there were remarkable ones . The social care sector carried on with no PPE and COVID ripping through.