Ds's teacher has returned to work after mat leave and her baby has just started nursery full-time ...

[bibbitybobbityhat]

I wonder how many days she will need to have off to look after her poorly baby.

Onepiece - A few years ago a fellow mum at school moaned to me about the days dd1's teacher had had off sick. So I pointed out that said teacher was childless, the days off occurred every few months, no explanation was offered and she seemed physically well when she came back so maybe, just maybe she was having fertility treatment and/or miscarrying. That thought shut her up.
I don't know if that was the case but she has since adopted two children.

to cremeegg .

Honestly, posts like the OP's make my feminist blood boil.

Teachers have the same right to a life as the rest of us. They might even want to have too much to drink at some point in their lives, or swing naked from the chandeliers (not likely on a teacher's salary), or go to a festival, get covered in mud and behave like goons.

Great, I say. I don't want some perfect robot teaching my children, I want a real person with a real life - who, I hope, also understands that as a working mum I can't come to the bake sale or the reading morning because they are during working hours.

Actually, we are all in this together. Or at least, we should be.

What a BITCH daring to go back full time after having children, get her back in the kitchen where she belongs, hey.

Now I know you'll come on and say that's not what you really meant bobbity, but what a mean, spiteful, self-centred post you have written. Let's hope other parents in your DS's class don't treat her with the same attitude and make her hand in her resignation, thereby meaning your son has to put up with a change of teacher (or even supply teacher while the school try to fill her place).

I'm surprised at you Bibbity.

Why do some women make other women's lives hard? Boils my piss.

I would assume that she has a back up childcare plan in place for if her baby needs a day off from nursery. Actually, scrub that it wouldn't have even entered my head to worry about her taking time off for a sick baby in the first place.

The OP once called one of my posts charmless. It stung for weeks.

I feel better now.

bibbity - come back and reassure us that how your OP sounded isn't what it meant.
Worst case scenario - yes, the baby catches every virus going and the father's a feckless bastard who has pissed off with the woman in the post office and both her parents are dead. So your DS will have some supply teachers. He'll be fine. If he's not fine, you talk to the Head about getting consistency in supply teachers - do they do what they can to get the same cover in each time, etc?

WTF?

Well, at least from this thread most of us are in this together.

Okay popbiscuit fair enough to your second post, but starting a thread in the way Bibbity has is really rather off.

and? I'm sure it won't mean the whole class has no work to do or that all the children will be sent home ...........so she has a good job and wants to keep it! Whats wrong with that!

wow, if I've read this right, I think you're really nasty and quite spiteful. I wonder how long you stood at the school gates bitching about her.

And pointy may I teach your children please :)

Omg at the hysteria! Ha haa haa! Was just asking the q.

What a lesson to be learnt here in reading what you want to in a plain question.

Why the attention seeking then?

Well except it wasn't a plain question, was it? And - just speculating here - I'm guessing that you're a SAHM? (To which I have absolutely no axe to grind, great if you can do it, but I'm still betting you are?)

Okay Bibbity then I think 8 days. Is that what you were after, a list of numbers? Why?

time they insisted that all female teachers were sterilised surely, our childrens reading levels are at stake!!!!

Has Bibbity's account been hacked?

Crikey

So are you wanting people to put a number on it? Join in the speculation? What were you expecting the replies to be?

I was shocked reading this OP.

I have just returned to full time primary teaching after maternity leave. I am going back to teach year 6 and be literacy coordinator. DD2 is 7 months and DD1 2.3 years, both in full time nursery at the same school I work.

Thank you so much other mumsnetters for restoring my faith, I can take on these important roles and have young children. How we arrange our family life is between me and my family.