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

[orangeandlemons]

To save everyone else the trouble

Topics: Holidays
Early Finishes
Training days
Snow days
Paid for by my taxes
Crap teachers/absent teachers
Feel free to add your own. 'Cos we're all crap after all

I do school trips because it's free holidays. They are soooo relaxing.

OMG spelling mistake in the title . However dd has dropped crumbs all over keyboard, and half the keys don't work!

My old HoD's father sadly passed away and she took a couple of weeks off (was from Europe). Upon her return to work a parent phoned her about her son and mentioned that she was very sorry to hear that her father had died, but it was rather inconvenient for her son's GCSE preparation that she had taken time off. I shit you not.

I was once told "how dare I let Mrs X have time off, as their child had really bonded with her and wasn't so keen on the long term supply we had in ..." She was off for a mastectomy and chemo and all the parents knew as they had had several letters and the children had made cards!

I had a parent complain about me being pregnant with twins and being 'allowed' to teach A level a her little darling's chance of getting an A* would be 'dramatically' affected. I was somewhat surprised her daughter knew I was pregnant as she hadn't turned up for the class since the second lesson of the first term and had told the HoD she'd 'dropped' the subject. How I enjoyed that telephone conversation!

I actually think a the last few posts are about discrimination and should be challenged!

I agreee they are discrimatory, but challenged by whom, oranges?

Totally outrageous that I had mumps (OMG- I've never felt so poorly) in the yet before the Easter hols a couple of years back. Mother of A Level student requested that I go to their house in the holiday to tutor her DD. the irony being that I bloody well caught the mumps from her DD in the first place.

Teachers who have a "personality clash" with a DC and refuse to change their personality to make it better.

Teachers who impose school sanctions are on their period- fact. I was told so by a 12 yr old boy last week after I wrote his name on the board for being late.

never mind you have long holidays to recuperate, and think about how valued you are

Am not a teacher but both parents were and am sad to see prejudices parents suffered from in 1970s and 80s still alive and well. My mum used to mark books til eleven pm, they would both give up weekends to go on school trips and so on and still get loads of abuse about short hours and long holidays.

all public sector gets pasting,not just teachers
gold plated pensions anyone
its not right,not fair but you just gotta suck it up

How dare I ask your 15 year old son to bring a pen with him to English. You're right, if I want him to do the work I should buy him a pen because that's what I get paid for.

Oh & a good one from Friday - another confiscation!

How completely unreasonable of me to confiscate Jake's Ipod. Did he not explain to me that he was sharing it with Callum, so each of them were in fact listening attentively to me with their spare ears?

Tsk. I really should have a word with myself.

I dunno who should challenge it tbh! Headteacher? Perhaps it needs to be in home school agreement? The bit about equality and being a non-discriminatory establishment

Picking on innocent DCs for NO REASON whatsoever.
Daring to have an accent that the kids can't be arsed to understand.
Setting too much homework.
Not setting enough homework.
Setting homework that's too hard.
Setting homework that's too easy.
Just generally being the lazy, bone idle feckers that we know them to be.

Not running endless after school clubs when you have your own family to go home to. (I'm not a teacher, but I know are teachers almost all have young families. They are not there to provide after school care for ours.)

Our teachers

I wanted to see my son in his school's summer production on Thursday (he is 5) and I'm not allowed. How selfish of me.

How about spending hours of time working with a child who is struggling and when you mention an improvement the parent steps in with a 'oh yes I spent five minutes last Tuesday doing that with them!' Yes that's why!

If I want a yr8 girl to take part in a county music concert tomorrow evening I can bloody well pick her up and drop her off afterwards. And of course it's fine that the mother doesn't want to waste her evening watching her daughter perform in front of 600 people in a prestigious venue.

The totally unacceptable thing I'd really really love to moan about teachers if i could get away with it is that the really good ones have a tendency to leave just when your daughter has fallen in love with them and then get replaced by ones your daughter hates.

really my dd needs to hold the interviews. that way my life would be calmer and she would be elevated to the position she thinks she deserves in life. life is definitely easier for me if everyone just does as she says.

Hee Hee this post if so making me laugh. I bet most parents are delighted to see you after the summer break and they have had to put up with their own children for weeks. I dearly love mine but because I gave up my career to have them and look after them I am very aware of what they are like. But you do get the odd teacher who can only cope with complient polite children who know there place at 4 or 5

I have a few acquaintances who've got pretty impressive public sector pensions scottishmummy (though no teachers btw) - frankly, it's pretty disgusting BUT as an ex-teacher, nothing, no gold-plated pension, no salary boost could have kept me in the profession.

I was once followed by an 'leader in buisness' for a day (I think he was a bank manager) as part of some activity to get initiate GCSEers in buisness - he was shocked at the level of physical imput and positivity I had to keep up all day long to keep things rolling and reported this back to the HT. He said he never realised teachers worked so hard. I think parents ought to spend time in schools and perhaps they would see a little of what a teacher's job involved.

I'm in awe of all those people who continue to teach right up to retirement. They deserve a medal (and a pension to match)!

Recent thread teacher bashing because they dared to stick to the risk assessment and not just use their common sense

Oh and not qualified or clever enough.