Lunch time meeting I had to attend?

[Inmypyjamasalready]

I got an email this morning informing me that a meeting was to take place at lunch time and my attendance was mandatory - I am sure this isn’t right, or is it?!

At the moment I could see some emergency meetings being held re: coronavirus.

My school is having an emergency meeting in a lunchtime re Coronavirus, I can’t imagine anyone not wanting to be there

I was often requested to attend meetings and after-school events on my days off. I did complain but ended up being forced out (after 13 years teaching at same school).

Now working as a HLTA in a different school.

Everyone's lunch break is unpaid

So what? This is about a particular teacher being coerced into attending a meeting for which they are not liable.

At the moment I could see some emergency meetings being held re: coronavirus

Nothing that email can't handle. It's how it's done at my school.

The OP could go to a meeting for half an hour and still have a half an hour lunch break

She could but she can’t be directed to. If SLT want teachers to attend a meeting they can hold it in directed time at a more appropriate time like after school.

There’s usually a contingency in the directed time budget.

Echt - you made a point of saying that the lunch break for teachers is unpaid. I was saying that it is also unpaid for every other worker.

It doesn't stop people sometimes working through them. If it was a regular occurrence then it would be an issue, but as a one off, I can't see what the fuss is about. Plenty of people work through their unpaid break occasionally; nurses, Doctors, retail staff, waiters etc.

Well, after school is not necessarily directed time either. 1265 hours per year, that's roughly 6.5hrs a day directed time. School day is something like 8.30-3pm with half an hour lunch. That covers all the directed time.

Can I point out that this is The Staffroom section and therefore about teaching and working in schools. If you don’t understand what it is like to work in a school then I suggest you don’t offer your opinions.

That covers all the directed time

Yeah, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Leave the teachers in peace.

Actually I do know what I'm talking about. I am aware this is the staff room and I do work in schools.

Then you will know that the directed time budget doesn’t just cover school hours

How does your 1265 hours divide by 195 days?

Bloody hell do you want a copy of the directed time budget? It covers a bit more than teaching time....plus there is a contingency.

I am aware of that, but 1265 hours is the directed time, which is what this thread is about. I realise that most teachers do more than that.

Blimey, you really are your own worst enemy sometimes...

What exactly is your beef here, Hall?

Suspect they’ve been scheduling lunchtime meetings, not realising that every teacher hates them for it.

My school used to do lunchtime meetings, the unions made them stop.

I think @hallamoo is just expressing snd opinion and others seem a bit rude

Echt - you made a point of saying that the lunch break for teachers is unpaid. I was saying that it is also unpaid for every other worker.It doesn't stop people sometimes working through them. If it was a regular occurrence then it would be an issue, but as a one off, I can't see what the fuss is about. Plenty of people work through their unpaid break occasionally; nurses, Doctors, retail staff, waiters etc

hallamoo What other workers do is not the point. This is a teacher. On a teacher's thread. This about teachers' conditions of service.