Parents' Evening on my day off....bleurgh

[Lucycat]

I have to go into work in about 30 minutes and I soooo don't feel like it. Year 7 Parents' Evening from 4.30 - 7.30, it's been looming over my head all day.

Would much rather sit here and drink tea

Good luck, why are you doing it on your day off? Above and beyond, I'd have thought.

Wish me luck, I'm on the parent side tonight! I just love it when they start spouting crap and I ask them pertinent questions about levels and what exactly are they marking for, as I can't tell from ds's books, so why should he?

If you don't teach on that day, union guidance is: you don't do parent's evenings.

SMT like to fail to mention this......, although I understood you had to do a proprtion = to your timetable percentage amount

Yes I know, but I've only done 2 this year and I'm 0.36 so it's about fair.

knackered now though!

If you do go in Lucy then you need to be given time off in lieu and it is entirely your choice.

Dh is p/t and chose to go in on a training day so got a day off in lieu.

You are entirely within your rights not to attend.

What? Time off in lieu?!!! Think I've been taken for a mug. I'm 0.6 and I do all 5 INSET days, all parents' evenings (whichever day of the week they are) and, over the years, probably done about 80% of staff meetings. Is there are primary/secondary divide here, or am I just unlucky?

I do INSET pro rata so I've done 2 of the 5 this year, but I can't see me getting time off in lieu!

Dh workds 0.4 at the moment but he has other work commitments on the days he doesn't work so he can't just attend an INSET on a non working day.

In most cases he agrees to attend and gets a day off in lieu if it falls on a non working day, this is usually so that he can re-arrange his other work (he taches freelance as a peri as well) he attends all insets that fall on working days regardless of how many.

However they held an INSET the first day back after Easter which was his first day of term with another organisation and he could not possibly go. There was nothing they could do about that.

I find SMT tend to stay very quiet about all this............