To think that "Time healed the wound" isn't a great advert for returning to teaching?

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This keeps on appearing as a mumsnet sponsored thing in my active conversations list. It's great that time healed the wounds caused by teaching for the person featured, but has much changed in teaching that means you won't get wounded again? It would put me off teaching either as a first timer or a returner.

Oh, the title of the article has changed to "Returning to teaching, one Mumsnet users' story".

I don’t drive past my old school. Still, and that’s three years on.

No, Time Healed the Wound is on rotation with a couple of other titles. Sometimes you get all three of them on the same page.

Every time I think they've finally gone they return.

Yes, terrible ad for teaching 'enough time passed that I forgot how awful it was'.

Every time I see them I twitch because my brain is trained to click on threads that mention teaching

I thought that I would give it another read just to see if it was the mood I was in,

But no the whole thing annoys me, its no quite mis-information but it runs close.

Please screenshot! I never get it...

There's also a quote from her about wanting to 'return to the foray'. I'm not sure this rings true from a supposed teacher who's passionate about the written word.

This. Although the reasons I left had nothing to do with children's behaviour and everything to do with Management. I'm 70 now so too old to go back anyway.

I was like that for several years.

😂true! Foray sounds so much more pleasant than fray... was she creatively edited?!

I've been keeping an eye out for Time Healed the Wound and I've not seen it in the past few days even though 'MNetter describes her return to teaching' still pops up.

I think they killed it because of this thread!

The title I am getting now is "returning to teaching, one Mumsnet users' story".

So whether I am on a different part of the rotation or they have removed it is yet to be seen.

https://www.mumsnet.com/articles/returning-to-teaching

It really is a bizarre campaign.
I mean if that's the very best temptation they can think of........

Given that the DfE has been told off before for breaching adverting standards.
I suspect that they are being careful with what they put forward.
Even if it is pretending to be an opinion piece.

That's the exact same "time healed the wound" story, MN seem to have just stopped promoting the story with that as the thread title.

I think that the story had three separate titles when it was first released but I could be wrong.

I can confirm time has not healed the wound (assuming the wound is the impact of COVID lockdowns and the rise of preteens having TikTok)

Teacher here of 30 yrs. Leaving early. Have deliberately not clicked on that ad' as knew it would annoy me. Indiscipline, SLT denial and lack of parental support- if u have that, you are swimming against the tide. Have a good day everyone.

Yeah, and you could have all three of them on the same page. Now it’s just the one thread.

I've recently left a different teaching role (thought it would be better in Adult Ed. Did 8 years and realised how toxic it was)

Its only now I'm out I'm realising how much it took over my life. How abusive the managers were and how much is systemic in the organisation I was in. Its only a few weeks and I feel in shock still.

I knew it was an "abusive relationship" but it's only now I'm out I realise quite how bad.... 😔.
Part of leaving has been the sadness at how lovely it should have been and how meaningful the work is and how it shouldn't have to be like this.

Its back under a new title.

"My teachers where influential in my growth"

At least it is the first time that I have seen that one.

Why would spending the summer preparing for a job you're not even employed by yet - whilst you're still working for another employer - be viewed as a good thing to tell people?

And that first job sounds far more appealing.

I am sorry to those who it has harmed - keep healing by not thinking of returning. I teach and I love it but have just done 2 14hr days - assessment deadline today - and work somewhere where there is no such thing as a free as behaviour is too poor for that to be realistic. I love the job and the challenge and the kids generally respond very well to me but I can tell you with confidence that it gets worse every year. The children I am seeing in mainstream are not ones that will ever thrive in a standard school classroom. If it was a challenge ten years ago now it’s a next level bonkers. Obviously working at the grammar will be different again but never has your school type mattered more. Suspect the people who do a year and leave are clear sighted.

My dh grits his teeth every time that advert comes on because he knows I’m going to go on a rant about what a load of utter wank it is 😩🤬🙄😂.

Ex-teacher here, nothing on this earth would persuade me to go back 😢

One of the many issues with teaching is that you are expected to hit the ground sprinting (not running) from the very first class.
If you don't prepare in the summer holidays before you start you will already be behind with the planning.
Its not a good thing but it is the expected thing.

Oh, I know - I'm sure when I'm in work all over summer that they're preparing at home ready for the mad rush (and frequently pointless/interminably long training sessions once you've got KCSIE and PREVENT out of the way) of the first two CPD days - but that's not something I would specifically choose to put in an advertorial that's supposed to be selling it to people who have already noped out of the entire thing once.

It's pretty much saying 'Yeah, this job is shit, you'll be much happier somewhere else, I know I was, but hey, you can top up your salary with private tuition and, um, sometimes it's kinda tolerable'. As examples of persuasive writing go, it's not got a great deal to put under WWW.

The other one with the bloke sounded like an interview answer from a new and shiny so very new and so very, very shiny member of SLT that tailed off once he realised he was being looked at in horror by anybody who has worked in a school for more than fifteen minutes.