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Is it any wonder?

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OneInTent · 10/04/2020 23:23

The general population seem to think teachers are having an extended holiday?

Since we were forced to close, I've tried to keep in contact with, monitor, set appropriate work for and generally support about 200 kids who make up the classes I'm responsible for teaching my subject to. I'm marking the work of the ones who are in a position to engage over the Easter 'break' .

My SLT have been great and staffed the provision for the kids who need to be in school, allowing everyone else to work from home, per general government advice.

Just overheard my DH on the phone answering generic questions about how we're both getting on, emphasising that I haven't 'had to go in' to work and how the kids haven't all logged on or done the tasks, implying that me trying to teach them is pointless and not achieving much, without mentioning that it's not for want of trying!

I spent the first couple of weeks working so hard to plan ahead and keep things going, responding individually to and worrying about particular kids way after normal working hours, that he told me to relax and just do my best. He saw that it's been harder than usual, but still seems to be giving the impression that schools being shut means there's no work to be done!

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InArrears · 10/04/2020 23:26

That's not the general population, just your husband.

Appuskidu · 10/04/2020 23:29

My DH certainly wouldn’t say that about what I’ve been doing! Maybe you need to have a conversation with him?

OneInTent · 11/04/2020 00:07

I have had a conversation with him, and I've had plenty up until this point about the reality of what we're doing, which is what I mean is strange. He's been telling me working remotely to teach can't be perfect and acknowledging I've been working (too) hard, but then with someone who doesn't really know, or want to know, about it, reverted to the party line.

I guess what he said specifically was just him, but he didn't call it a holiday to thr other person. I just think it would be easy to assume. And that's the kind of thing I've been reading on MN (generally, not staffroom) about teachers not doing much and it being fine to lose the six week holidays.

I'm just bemused that the myth of us not working or being on holiday right now seems to be perpetuated so easily, and it's almost too difficult to say what it's really like.

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