Aren't teachers key workers and therefore ..........

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Haven't they been able to access childcare at schools?

Here I was sympathetic to all teachers having to deliver lessons whilst looking after their own kids and this just dawned on me.........

It's just dawned on me , you're a bit of a tit.

Take your teacher bashing elsewhere

‘ItS a GeNuIne QuEsTiON’ yeah whatever.

Tell you what OP, why don’t you become a teacher? There’s a massive retention crisis so you can see how fucking mint it is. You do no work, get loads of holidays and get loads of respect from busybody Karen-types on the Internet xx

I'm a teacher and my child stayed with my husband her dad when I had to go in. I've said no to sending her back and hopefully hubby will be able to work and look after her. Eek!! I've known key workers send their children in and they haven't been at work. They needed a rest though. Not speaking about any school staff there.

I think it depends. My son's school has a really high proportion of key worker parents. So initially when this all started I thought I'd still be in work so I requested a key worker place for him. His school then had to prioritise; he didn't get a place and was put on the reserve list instead.

My own place of work have so few key worker children that they've looked in to offering places to children from over subscribed schools.

Didn't think the teachers would get so defensive

I don’t understand your point. Being a key worker did not guarantee you childcare - you would need to be a single parent or your partner would have to be a key worker too. Plenty of teachers don’t fit into that category so no they were not able to send their children to school or nursery. I’m a teacher and have a childminder. My husband is also a key worker but has for the most part worked from home, I’ve been in school once a week. We managed to organise our days in work to not clash so we haven’t used our childminder, if that makes you happy I would not have sent him to school either had he been older if it wasn’t necessary. Just like all other key workers. You send your child in if you can’t be at home. What a strange post.

I just reread your post, sorry I misunderstood a bit. Am I right in thinking you thought teachers were working from home but sending their children to school for key worker provision? Well, no. Obviously not.

The other thing for some of us is we can supervise our dc's lessons more effectively if they're at home.

I'm overseas so the hub system doesn't operate, but even if it did, it's basically childcare & a desk to get on with any work set.

I record Zoom videos & schedule work late into the night.

This enables me to march into my 3 teenagers' bedrooms at 8am brandishing the spreadsheet of doom.

'Ds you have a zoom meeting for global politics at 9, dd1 you've been set maths online with an option zoom plenary at 10, dd2 you have to be online to present on animals of the Sahara with 3 of your mates at 9.30. Yes well I'd email them, then. I did warn you 3 days ago'

Then I gulp down a cup of tea & zoom my first class at 9.

10:15 is class changeover so I have 10 glorious minutes ensure ds spends his free period taking the dogs out, dd1 has her English handed in & dd2 has her ducks in a row re her Arabic composition. By now I don't give a shit if it's google translated.

10:25, I'm teaching p2 online.

Rinse & repeat twice.

If I had a 'sit at a desk & do the work set, or don't, we aren't in a position to monitor it' it wouldn't be the best thing for my 3 kids.

They are teenagers so unlikely to wander bare bummed into the background of my lessons, but nonetheless they need a fair bit of monitoring.

Also, an hour at the end of every day checking what didn't get done, needs catching up etc.

& then I get back on to scheduling work for next day, filming lessons, & feeding back on work done.

I'm pulling 5 hours sleep on a good night & that's on strong sleeping pills.

We don't all have access to a childcare hub, & it's not necessarily a great thing if we do.

Cousin is heavily pregnant. And homeschooling a 6 year old. Husband is out working.

She is a teacher

Ever single persons circumstances are different. Depending on so many factors. Just appreciate that regather the apportioning sympathy / judgement based on what we think peoples situations are.

Nope, we're classed as WFH so don't get childcare.

Social workers get childcare even when they work at home

Classed as essential workers but in my authority not essential enough for a hub place for kids as i work in hub school 🤔 so to protect others aged relatives and to allow them to work, my parent, over 70 looks after my kids so I can look after theirs.
Doesn't bother me as I am paid to do a job, my parent has been fab taking them. So when wfh i have 2 and when in school i do their school work in the evenings and weekends just like lots of other parents just now.

OP you've been thinking about this at 8pm on a Saturday night why?

Love the way this was also worded 'about' teachers rather than a genuine question 'to' teachers.

Our headteacher has been in school pretty much every day since the start of lockdown as we've had vulnerable children in pretty much everyday. Her children had to go to their school as she is a keyworker and single mum and not able to work from home.

Just as I side issue (for those who weren't aware) the whole keyworker thing not being able to send your DC to school if you worked from home is true. Both of us are key workers. DP in work, I worked from home so had to keep DC at home even when I was working nights. That was almost impossible and it's very hard to recover from no sleep. One size very definitely doesn't fit all.

@Twinklelittlestar1 well because I have had concerns about my child's distant learning provision and have been wondering how to approach it with her teachers. As I mentioned I have kept quiet til now as I was sympathetic to the teachers juggling a lot like everyone else wfh with children. But then I got to thinking how if they were key workers, they can access childcare.

But now I know that's not the case

Hope this is a sufficient explanation

the teachers I know are dealing with their own children at home, and then their children go in when the teacher is teaching at school.

Nope. Preparing lessons and narrating PowerPoints whilst helping my daughter complete her school work. The thought of doing this for 7 more weeks ...

Social workers get childcare even when they work at home

Some may have but definitely not all. I haven’t had any provision for either of my children. I’m a social worker and DH is also a keyworker (not a social worker).

Some primary schools were only accepting children if both parents were keyworkers so my answer, as a teacher, is no. Find a new hobby that doesn’t involve finding fault with teachers who did not ask the government to close schools.

*Haven't they been able to access childcare at schools?

Here I was sympathetic to all teachers having to deliver lessons whilst looking after their own kids and this just dawned on me.......*

No, because I was working from home and so didn't need or want one. I was allowed to take him with me whilst I worked in the hub though.

He also won't go in now, even though I'm back in full time school from today. He's entitled to it but we've chosen to make our own arrangements because we can and schools need numbers to stay low this term in order to keep things safe.