Teachers...just wondered if we should start out own teacher basing thread....

[orangeandlemons]

To save everyone else the trouble

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Crap teachers/absent teachers
Feel free to add your own. 'Cos we're all crap after all

10.30pm here Shift

Disputing marks because my husband/wife/oh knows a a bit about this, did the homework for the child and wasn't happy that they got a 'D' grade

You're let off empire but the rest of you should be toiling away.

Well, it woukd be great if teachers did, but given they don't how about respecting parents knowledge rather than pretending that being a 'professional' means most of what a patent states is ignorance.

A Levels/GCSE are much easier why isn't my lazy little shit of aDC not getting an A*?
S/he's gifted and talented don't you know

A school local to me is shut this afternoon because of the olympic torch. More time off for teachers! Bet someone will say teachers are to blame for the olympics now.

Previous post should, of course, be

A Levels/GCSE are much easier why isn't my lazy little shit of a DC not getting an A*?

Picking on Little Johnny by telling him off whenever he pisses around which happens to be quite a lot.

One parent actually asked me to stop telling their poor put-upon child to do some work instead of staring out of the window. C/D borderline Y11

There have been loads of threads recently, haven't there? Someone daring to come back from maternity leave just before the holidays, one about INSET after half term, more about holidays,etc. etc.

Also interesting that there was a thread recently about the upcoming possible doctor strike - the general consensus there was much more in favour than when the teaching strike was talked about last year.

Anyway, I shouldn't be on here, I've got exams to mark and reports to copy and paste (or was that OFSTED?)

Do people just hate teachers because that was their default setting as a child and they haven't thought to update their logic since they matured?

I'm surprised teachers even have time to log onto the Internet. Or are you lot the rubbish supply ones?

Nah, we're just all rubbish

wow!!

And we don't care what your DCs are reading at home. At school they are going to read Biff and Chip.

so funny. oh dear i have quit my job to get in to schools and teaching am thinking i may have made wrong decision !!!! time will tell........

Yes, & I took my tutee's blingy Damian Hirst-esque skull earrings from her 'because I wanted them myself'.

I actually do - they're fab - but I'd really prefer a pair that haven't been through your dd's ears, Irate Parent On The Phone!

This thread is really funny and I've been howling but then some teachers prove why parents think a certain way by describing children in their care as "little s%*^#"!

That's one way for your arguments to fail! :(

Raven

I once had a go at a kid who had a topless model picture stuck on his folder.

Apparently I was jealous because I didn't look like that

"How dare you confiscate that (4" utility) knife from my child. He needs it to open his sandwich bag." I shit you not.

Would this be his reinforced high strength steel sandwich bag?

But of course he needs it.

Nope this was because he can't untie knots.

Obviously.

shift

am out the teaching lark while out the UK

collager

have also been a punchbag supply teacher

fwiw some of the kids do act like little shits, i was in top set at school and we sometimes acted like little shits, my own kid can certainly fit this description when she chooses to...tis venting nothing more. people could use ooh the little monkeys or tikes or scallywags but this undermines what sadly a lot of teachers go through on a day-to-day basis: there are stories i could tell you to make your hair curl but i don't want to scare away nicolakc you will be fine

op You have read the title back haven't you?! Go sit in the naughty pedants' corner...

Teachers who get pregnant and actually take maternity leave.

Teachers who work part time, especially in class job shares.

Teachers who are off ill. A colleague dared to break her leg and some parents were not amused.
One actually said to me 'shame it didn't happen the first week of the Summer holidays - it would have been more convenient'

I should add the irony is she broke her leg by tripping over a bag of books she had taken home to mark