@alwaysraining123
Teaching is not my paid job either but yet I’ve been expected to teach for the best part of the year (along with my actual job). Teachers need to be more adaptable.
Ok. So please tell me how you'd like teachers to be more adaptable.
They are currently working either in school with keyworker children or from home, whilst (very often) educating their own children as they may not qualify for a keyworker place if their partner isn't a keyworker.
How else can they teach? I'm unsure what else they can possibly do?
Oh. They're also constantly Doug welfare checks, dealing with ever increasing safeguarding issues, sorting out school meals for those most in need who are not at school whilst still teaching. If you haven't seen this side of their job then that's probably because your nice little family/world don't require that level of help. But many, many others do.
Or should they now go forward and work, unpaid, outside of their contracts over this mythical extension of education during the school holidays that this twatty, useless government are teasing all the baying public crowd with.
Would you work for free? For a considerable amount of time to the detriment of your family? Perhaps you'd like to not see your relatives (some of whom you may have not seen for nearly a year due to shielding) to educated/summer school other people's little poppets for free?
No? Ah. Is that because your profession isn't considered a 'vocation'? (Such a wonderful word to use to erode any perceived value within a job).
Oh. And would you work in close proximity to others who are highly prone to passing on bodily fluids without both parties wearing a mask during this pandemic.
Or be in an enclosed small space with around 30 maskless people who can, according to the scientists, pass on this disease highly effective but be symptomless.
You wouldn't? Funny that...
Teachers are working very very hard.
Teaching is a job, not voluntary work.
Teachers deserve time with their own families without any fear of passing on a deadly disease.