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

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minishiteboard · 26/08/2025 15:27

( 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

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menopausalmare · 30/08/2025 13:28

I have very much enjoyed six weeks of not wasting my life trying to log onto i- Trent.

noblegiraffe · 30/08/2025 13:53

Nant90 · 30/08/2025 12:31

Oh god, that bad @noblegiraffe and @TaborlinTheGreat ? Behaviour was shit before it started and has got no better but no worse either since they brought it in but I feel it will be massively ramping up now.

Yes, I'm afraid so. When my school went Paul Dix was the closest I've ever come to quitting teaching. Behaviour was absolutely appalling and workload went through the roof - it was basically impossible to get a kid removed from your classroom however disruptive they were being, and the only sanction available was a 'restorative conversation' with them in your own time before the next lesson. And when you tried to book this conversation in with the miscreant, they'd suck their teeth and say they could fit you in in a fortnight because they were all booked up.

And then because following the behaviour system creates workload for teachers and doesn't actually work, teachers end up not bothering even trying to use it. If you know that giving little Johnny another warning just means he is going to be wasting your lunchtime, you absolutely reconsider giving it to him.

Jujujudo · 30/08/2025 13:55

mnahmnah · 26/08/2025 15:39

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.

This is awful. I left my first ever teaching job because of someone like this, and I loved that job. I’m so sorry.

Pythag · 30/08/2025 14:00

BeachedOff · 27/08/2025 19:12

I'm with you OP. It always amuses me when they do the obligatory INSET on different learning styles and adaptation. This is of course whilst literally talking at a group of people for hours on end using a boring PowerPoint. Apparently different learning styles stop after childhood.

Does your school talk about learning styles? The theory of learning styles has been so debunked! Nobody has a different learning style!

HedyPrism · 31/08/2025 08:57

I'm not looking forward to early alarms or doing seating plans. No idea of my timetable. Also not looking forward to my tutor group being Y9 with all the drama that will bring.

Really looking forward to seeing my colleagues and actually teaching though.

Pythag · 31/08/2025 15:07

HedyPrism · 31/08/2025 08:57

I'm not looking forward to early alarms or doing seating plans. No idea of my timetable. Also not looking forward to my tutor group being Y9 with all the drama that will bring.

Really looking forward to seeing my colleagues and actually teaching though.

I had a year 9 tutor group last year - the drama wasn’t too bad, but maybe because all boys…

TheeNotoriousPIG · 31/08/2025 15:27

Weekmindedfool · 26/08/2025 18:59

The fucking kids.

School would be so much better without them..

We were saying just last week how much nicer our college is when it doesn't have any students in it 😁

We're wondering if the mullet will still be Haircut of the Year. When I saw the first one, I couldn't help but say, "Who let THAT out of the 1980's?!" and we're wondering if the fashions will have changed...

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