OK, time to come clean.
We only set it because we are nasty, fetishistic old bags who love nothing more than to make people?s lives a misery.
We set it knowing that it hinders you child?s learning, and we do it in a way that creates the maximum amount of disruption and misery to your lives. We even make it difficult to understand.
In lessons we constantly put kids down, we try as hard as we can to make their lives more difficult. We make a conscious effort to hold back the bright and able and over stress those finding things hard.
We step in too often except when we step in too late. We do too many things outside of school with kids, except when we do too few. We are over strict except when we are too lenient.
We do this because deep down we are all just bad people.
We were also the unknown gunmen behind the grassy knoll; we shot JR, take places in M & T parking spaces and never pay for our grapes.
Basically we are the scum of the earth.
There, now I feel better!
Seriously, I have had the worst day in school. I have been sworn at, had to step in to sort out a fight and run after a child to stop her leaving school. I have just finished my prep work for tomorrow and read that I should also be running homework clubs. It seems that I can get 30 kids in a room to work, when parents say they can't get them to work at home.
I'm not a saint ladies, I am just a regular woman who is getting tired of the kicking my profession is getting on Mumsnet. Sure, some teachers are crap. I know this. And I understand that you all want the very best for your kids, so do I. But we are not all the spawn of Satan, just reasonable people trying to do their best.
I have no problems with people complaining about the actions of some, but can we lay of some of the ruder generalisations, If for no other reason that other peoples kids have given me a shitty day today.