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Original poster

I'm a teacher not a bloody babysitter!

152 replies

Rosieeo · 08/01/2010 19:35

So SO annoyed by the guy on BBC News 24 just now who suggests that if teachers can't get to the school they teach at because of snow, they should go to the nearest school and set up 'some kind of a crèche facility'!

How much would you pay a person to look after thirty kids for five hours a day? £8 per hour, per child? Then fantastic, bring it on!

Are teachers simply glorified babysitters? Am I being unreasonable to be so annoyed by this?

OP posts:
herladyshiplovesedward · 08/01/2010 19:52

a creche doesn't really cost £8 an hour does it? or how do people afford it?!

Littlefish · 08/01/2010 19:52

No pointydig, it doesn't. I teach at a school in the same county as my dd's school. I had to have a new CRB check done when I wanted to volunteer as a classroom helper. It's bloody ridiculous. I can take a class of 30, or an assembly of 190 children on my own in one school, but I can't go into another school to hear a single child read without being re-checked.

pointydig · 08/01/2010 19:52

well, we have been told to report to nearest school where we might teach or even be asked to do any council job where help was needed

fernie3 · 08/01/2010 19:53

Imnot sure I would be happy about leaving my little girl with a random teacher just for the sake of a day at school!. Then again I can see problems with childcare are an issues for many people so might not have a choice.

Original poster
Rosieeo · 08/01/2010 19:53

Acatcalledfidget, thanks for the fab link!

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Goblinchild · 08/01/2010 19:53

cat, consider the work of Andy Goldsworthy
www.artnet.com/artwork/424927556/1008/andy-goldsworthy-snow-drift-carved-into-waiting-for-the-wind-g rise-fiord-ellesmere-island-12-april-1989.html

GypsyMoth · 08/01/2010 19:54

a year 11 teacher suddenly thrown in a room of reception children,of course thats going to be a recipe for success!

tethersend · 08/01/2010 19:54

TheFallenMadonna, it was previously established on the other thread that teachers are not allowed to have children, as it might distract them from their vocation.

acatcalledfidget · 08/01/2010 19:55

true Goblin, but I ate the snow too...felt it was my civic duty to aid the students back to school.

TheFallenMadonna · 08/01/2010 19:57

Ah now you see I was only on that thread at the beginning. Then I went to work (I know, a teacher at work, in the *snow!!) and when I came back it had gone too bonkers to follow...

tethersend · 08/01/2010 19:58

I think the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder may be more appropriate.

pointydig · 08/01/2010 19:58

if that is true about crb checks then why is one director of education saying that teachers can work in any school in teh same LA, I wonder

tethersend · 08/01/2010 20:00

I know, TheFallenMadonna- I posted on it from school and it all kicked off even more

BoneyBackJefferson · 08/01/2010 20:01

just because theya are director of education does not mean that they know anything about education

acatcalledfidget · 08/01/2010 20:02

Ha Ha tethersend, do you think the 'innocents being massacred' are in fact the teachers that were on a snow day?

tethersend · 08/01/2010 20:03

Oh. I had imagined it would be the kids. I'm not sure what that says about me to be honest, fidget.

wonderingwondering · 08/01/2010 20:03

With all public servants (civil servants, any way) there's a standard term that if you can't get to your usual place of work you go to your nearest gov't office (usually a job centre). Rarely enforced!

acatcalledfidget · 08/01/2010 20:05
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acatcalledfidget · 08/01/2010 20:08

Quick sensible query...what if the head of the school or any senior management weren't at the school...just a bunch of teachers that had turned up at their nearest school. Wouldn't that be chaos?! As a parent would you want to leave your kids there!!?? How would you even know that they were teachers...you could be feeding your kids to the lions!

pointydig · 08/01/2010 20:09

the head is obliged to make it to their school . His/her staff phone him/her to receive instruction

TheFallenMadonna · 08/01/2010 20:09

If I had to look after a class of 5 year olds it would be exactly like that...

frogetyfrog · 08/01/2010 20:12

A colleague at work told me that legally (he is school govenor and some legal boffin) the children are entitled to be educated for a certain number of days per year and theoretically teachers could have to teach in the holidays to make up for the snow days. In any other job you have to take annual leave or lieu time on snow days and then make it up.

acatcalledfidget · 08/01/2010 20:13

But in real life...what if the head couldn't...like we live in a little village with 2 village schools but not even the postman/milkman/delivery to the shop has made it here in the last 3 days? so if the head didn't live here either...what would happen...hmmm????

pointydig · 08/01/2010 20:13

I doubt that's true, frog

acatcalledfidget · 08/01/2010 20:14

but anyway, that's the end of my sensible questions...now, back to teacher burning please!