teachers - what aspect of going back are you dreading the most?

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( even if you like your job)

I am dreading sitting in the chuffing hall all day where they tell us the latest shitnitiative they have come up with

Seeing a certain member of my department who threw me under the bus last term and I now cannot stand to be near. I don’t know how I am going to get through working with them anymore, let alone manage them. They turned a place I loved working into somewhere I now feel anxious about and uncomfortable.

Getting up
wearing proper clothes 😂

Being stuck indoors all day. I’ve enjoyed the summer and spent most of it outside all day. I always find it claustrophobic when I return in September

The relentless pace. Log on, get ready for six lessons in a row rush to briefing, try not to be late to tutor, battle the 'one way' system, try to have to starter ready on the board and be at the door to greet, take the register in the first two minutes, manage behaviour, distribute resources, explain, question, check, model, circulate, dismiss, try to have to starter on the board and also be at the door to greet and repeat until 3:15pm. Sort everything (behaviour / marking etc.) from that day, head to CPD and after that finally prepare everything (planning / resources etc. for the next day.

This. By people who teach less in a week than the rest of us in a day.

Ease the boredom with a couple of rounds of bullshit bingo?

I always kind of look forward to going back, but the fresh start feeling only lasts about 2 days! What I'm not looking forward to is the amount of bollocks that will bd packed into the one INSET day. At previous schools we usually had either one or two INSET days and then a day when only Y7 and Y12 were in. Under our new Head at this school, it's one day then all kids in 😫

The fucking kids.

School would be so much better without them..

I'm lucky to have very nice ones, but I've certainly worked in schools where I felt a bit like that!

I am looking forward to it, but know that the pace will be relentless soon !

I’ve been back for two weeks already (SLT…sorry! 😆).

Miss the kids. Can’t say the same for all of the adults, though.

Psyching myself up to deal with the (minority of) staff who are more childish and needy than the kids and are just a massive fucking drain on my time and energy.

The marking

Getting my class lists at the last minute cos there's a new system dontcha know so nothing can be done in a timely manner.

Then spending the evening after boring inset making all my seating plans and checking SEN, medical etc so I can do my job properly the next day.

On the plus side I have already got my new laptop so I don't have to deal with that taking four hours to log in for the first time!

Oh I never do lists for the first fortnight.

One year, on the first day back, a colleague said to me ‘back to the real world’. I replied ‘this isn’t the real world’ and started making plans to escape.

The alarm clock
Needy parents

The pace. I have to drop my kids off at breakfast club and nursery so I always start the day feeling behind and rushing to form time etc.

The to-do list that just gets longer every day no matter how hard you work at it. Day one it will lengthen with all the online mandatory training.

The mean girls club, who don't even realise they're such arseholes.

Kids or staff?

I'm abroad on holiday and I still can't escape! I have GCSE students asking me to look through papers they've requested. The main one is trying to get up from an 8 to a 9, even though she has her place in 6th form etc and is quite a lot of marks off a 9.

Do you work at my school?!

My school blocks access to any of our stuff when we're outside the UK. It's great!

Not being able to go to the loo as and when I want to!

But overall pleased with my timetable for this year and happy to be going back!

Exactly this. The endless morning of presentation by the head of statistics and other admin when all we want to do is to get on with sorting out our rooms, doing our photocopiuies and laising with our colleagues.

My tutor group. I inherited them last year and 95% of them are lovely but they simply do not want to do the mandated pshe/expert learner/wellbeing/leadership/bonding/assembly/Newsround schedule in the first 20 minutes of every day. They want to chill out and chat with their friends. I can't lead them to the bloody stream, let alone interest them in drinking the enriching educational waters.