I’m really wondering about being signed off sick

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I have a new job, starting January.

I’m a secondary teacher. I’m having a horrendous time with one particular year group. This has been going on since last year. To be honest, I feel bullied by them. They made me cry once (I know, I know) and I actually think it’s a game trying to get me to do it again.

I don’t want to put pressure on my colleagues or leave on a sour note but I’m so fed up.

Oh, I see

We don’t send kids out because there is literally nowhere to send them. There’s no sort of on call or referral system. It isn’t a rule so much as something you just can’t really do.

We just send the twats outside the classroom before knocking them down a peg outside. Little feckers! People forget we're teaching maniacs who have yet to be diagnosed insane....

What would happen if you told the head that this class were damaging your MH and he/she has a choice, get that class covered for you or you would be seeing your GP about being signed off and therefore ALL your classes would need covering?

What would happen if you just gave up with this class and put a stream of DVDs on? And turned a blind eye to phones.

It’s ‘only’ a few weeks. You need to do what you can do to survive. If the reference has been set and the new job offered as long as you stay within the law your pretty much untouchable by SLT.

I worked at a private boys school for a short time (this wasn’t the only problem).

I just started telling them to collect their things and wait outside. Then I’d ring the office and simply tell them there was a boy who needed collecting from outside my room.

Because they didn’t have an on call system it would always be a member of SLT who showed up .

The most surprising part was that no one ever complained to me about doing it. 👌

Urgh I feel for you. I’m fortunate that my contract ends next week as I’m going on maternity leave and am not coming back. One class made me cry last week and it made me feel horrendous and incompetent. Pretty much every lesson ive had them I’ve had to call management to take someone out which makes me feel utterly rubbish. I’m not a bad teacher, I’m a good one, but sometimes a class or two can just ruin everything, no matter what you do. The constant back chat, talking, arrogance and sheer rudeness is breath taking and wearing. It’s not even the ones you would expect it from, all students seem to have the same attitude at times.
I’d second trying to get senior management in if possible to observe or even to lurk outside to catch them in the act. Either that or go on the sick like previously suggested. Have you looked at other school jobs? Hoping it gets better for you very soon.

There’s quite a bit of nonsense here from posters who are not actually bothering to read the OP.
It’s not that SLT can magically make kids behave, it’s that there needs to be a SYSTEM OF SUPPORT in the form of an on call alarm. In this case, there isn’t one. The kids know and IME that knowledge of their invincibility can become dangerous (actually physically dangerous). In the wrong school, it can put teachers in a diabolical situation. I personally would be walking away without any guilt because it’s actually the school who have let you down rather than the other way around. In all honesty, walking away would leave me with less professional guilt than putting on DVDs and letting them play on phones!

Sorry I forgot to say!

I ended up getting signed off from that school for a multitude of horrid reasons and as I had a job to go to in September I neither felt guilty or tried to go back 👌

Put yourself first for once and take this time off to regroup and recover in time for your new job x

Thanks. I really feel exhausted with them.

I feel that my relationship with the year group as a whole has irreparably broken down.