to feel quite shocked that DH has PTSD from teaching?

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Its feels pretty awful tbh. He has just today received this diagnosis and has been referred for priority EMDR.

He has taught for 25 years in a secondary school, and got out last year due to clinically diagnosed burn out.

I knew it was bad, but I never realised it was this bad.

How can this be allowed to happen?

Of course it’s true. It was a response to someone who was commenting on working in a nursery, not a school.

As a nursery owner, I can assure you that I do a lot more than deal with parent evenings and emails. I don’t doubt for a minute that teachers have a tough job, but believe me, it’s no picnic dealing with parent complaints and sob stories about why they can’t pay their nursery fees either.

Well, I can’t comment on that really. I don’t know how much that goes on in nurseries. I would think it was pretty unusual, as employees have so many rights. Why put up with it when you don’t have to?

Early years and KS1. With respect if you don’t know then don’t speak on it. Teaching staff have is vastly harder than management in the majority. If complaining about it worked it’d never happen, you know as well as I it’s just not that simple.

But you’re not a nursery owner and you don’t work as a manager, so how do you know that teaching staff have it vastly harder than management? I bet if I told you what I have to deal with, you wouldn’t believe me. I get parents emailing me at all hours of the day and night, expecting to receive an immediate reply. Some of those parents, especially the parents from vulnerable families, are not particularly stable and the emails are often abusive. They are usually about some perceived slight or wrongdoing from the staff, who God forbid, have lost a hat or said something on the door (eg, “Hello”) that has been misinterpreted as a racial insult.

I don’t think for a minute that it’s easy working as a teacher, but it sure as shit isn’t a picnic working in management either. I’m curious about why you think it is?

A role can be ‘not remotely similar’ and still be hard. A nurse’s job is hard. So is a teacher’s. So are many other jobs.

So it can be simultaneously true that a nursery manager’s job has many differences from a teacher’s AND that a nursery manager’s job is tough. There is no need to denigrate the demands of job A to prove that job B is tough.

Oh yeah that myth about short days. It wasn't unusual for me to finish work at 9pm, after starting before 8am.

Sigh. Don't engage.

I work 10 hour days 51 weeks of the year actually.

The rest of your utter tripe I’ll choose to ignore.

All I know the schools I worked in the teachers wasn't their until 9pm and all through the holidays

You know it’s possible to do school work from home?

Don’t feed the troll.

You've had to trawl back five and a half years to find a post from one teacher saying they can manage their workload within an eight hour day. Well done😳

I can post more this was the first that came up when I typed in how many hours do teachers in the UK actually work. There's loads on their explaining how they managed their workload better. You should give them a read there's some good tips

Ignore them! This is nothing more than a personal attack on me, I don’t feel any need to divulge what setting I work in. Details regarding my contacted hours or my lived experiences working there to prove a point to aggressive strangers on the internet.