Why do teachers still have jobs?

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So my husband has just lost his job from next week. He's a coach driver. My best mate has lost her job from this week, she used to work in a cinema. I have many friends now out of work and desperately trying to get jobs in supermarkets.

However teachers will not be working now for many months, so how come they're not being made redundant?

I'm not being goady I genuinely want to know. I'm glad they are still being paid, I'd hate for them to be in our position. But why?

Are other jobs "safe" like this too?

I've still got to go in on Monday..

I don't realise teachers were still working.

There's a lot you didnt realise then.

And DS is getting virtual lessons now (and possibly next term too).

I was up until 3.00 this morning preparing and adapting the syllabus to be online friendly. That was just the planing not creating all the resources yet.

Trialled remote learning with students today and "spoke" virtually to 75 students individually today.

We are still working

What a nasty post Op.
Shame on you

We have been getting emails all week from the teachers of my 2 boys secondary school setting up online work, microsoft teams training, making sure kids have access to the internet etc. These emails are coming late at night. Teachers are definitely still working into this crisis just in different ways and so are non frontline NHS staff,
and delivery drivers,
and supermarket workers
and many others which you may not realise.

Please do not continue with the misconception that teachers will not be working.

PS I'm not a teacher but a little bit of research would tell anybody this.

As a teacher we are working. School will be open, possibly 7 days a week, no holidays alongside setting and assessing the work set by students at home.
I am sorry for you and your husband, genuinely. But perhaps don't take your anger out on a group of people who are trying their best.

Could your dh offer to be a delivery driver? Surely the demand will increase for this sector? A friend of mine is a pilot and has just lost his job. He’s now speaking to whoever he can to help with deliveries.

Cheers for that OP.

I'm so insulted by this. Today I, and various other staff members, have volunteered to work weekends and over the Easter holidays in addition to remote teaching our classes, so that key worker parents can know that their children are being properly cared for. So that they (doctors, nurses, care workers etc) can make sure everyone has food and healthcare in these unprecedented times. To quibble over whether or not we should continue to be paid is appalling.

I now have to decide whether or not to send my nine year old to school or let him stay at home with DH who is WFH.

You won't get that choice if their dad isn't a key worker.

OP what a stupid question. Imagine if teachers were just laid off, then had to find themselves other jobs. Guess what would happen when schools were due to reopen? That's right, they'd be short staffed and therefore couldn't.

Perhaps your DH (or you) could apply for a HCSW role in the NHS; that way you'll have an income and be doing something to bring the crisis to an end.

I'm a teacher in Italy and am working harder than ever!!

Teachers will have to work - the low risk ones will be in schools on what may be antisocial rotas from 7:30 to 6:30pm or later. The high risk / vulnerable ones will be creating lesson plans for both in-class and remote lessons and may even need to be involved in planning virtual exams (if that’s the route we will take for GCSEs and A Levels).

I now have to decide whether or not to send my nine year old to school or let him stay at home with DH who is WFH.

There is no decision. He stays home with Dad. This is emergency cover for those key workers who have NO OTHER MEANS OF CHILDCARE.
Every extra child in school is an extra risk both for the parents at home, and the teachers looking after them.

You shouldn't even be considering sending him in.

OP won't be coming back, I suspect. She has quite justifiably had her arse handed to her on a plate.

Topseyt
I think the OP was hoping for a very different response somehow.

I'm a teacher. We are still going into school for the next week - following 2 weeks will be holidays anyway, but no idea what we'll be doing.

Lola, yes. I am sure she was. She seemed to be implying all teachers should be sacked for being lazy arses and treating this as one long jolly holiday.

@PerfectParrot - what she said

Sorry! @PerfectParrot I meant that as in I agree with exactly what you said!

I am sure most teachers have heard of 'short time'. Sometimes companies who are struggling offer non-salaried staff short time in an effort to keep the business up and running and for staff to receive some wages. Sometimes the staff work less hours than usual or sometimes not at all. There are two issues with this for teachers.

Issue one- we are salaried. Our contracts state an amount we will be paid as a salary not an hourly or daily rate.

Issue two - we aren't going to be working less hours. I will be in school next week looking after the children of key workers. I will be receiving messages from children learning at home. Work will still be planned and marked.

Every teacher I have spoken to is worried about the children they teach and their families. We know that people are losing their jobs, businesses and homes. That is out of our control. All we can do is support as much as we can.

My school (state secondary) has been told it's business as usual on Monday and the headteacher expects us all in. That's everyone - kitchen staff, admin staff, learning support, TAs, teachers, caretakers, bursar, library staff, reception staff. We expect to have up to 20% of our children in, which is about 200 kids.

The prime minister's wording is wrong. Schools are not closed. Schools are open, but some children are not allowed to come in.

We have also been told that we might be open over the school Easter holidays.

I’m a teacher, I am on a rota to go into school once every 2 weeks to teach those children who are staying in school.

I have to set work online for my students from home and then collect and mark their responses. We have to make telephone contact with students once per week to check on their welfare and academic progress. I have to do all of this whilst looking after my own 2 children who cannot attend their childminder at the minute.

following 2 weeks will be holidays anyway,
Not necessarily. Schools have been asked by the DfE today, if they are able to remain open over the holidays.

I was talking to someone in SLT and they said if schools don't properly open until September they may have to cover the summer holidays too! I suppose it depends what restrictions we are all living under in the summer