Let's boycott all school threads outside of Education

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Honestly guys we are getting a kicking on other threads. We repeatedly have to explain our contracts, holidays, why we are not doing more online, why we should be doing less on ...... it is never ending. So far we have been off for the Easter break plus a max of two weeks. There is a lot of the population that do not need childcare. We are open for key worker children but that gets ignored. All the social distancing issues are ignored. All the ppe requirements are ignored. Now it could be that the trolls just see us as an easy target, hence all the forlough calls. So as a union member, I am requesting that teachers do not have to explain themselves on other threads as we are just fueling the fire. (I have been guilty of this).

So I am calling for a union boycott!

Ignoring the threads doesn’t seem to have worked well so far. The problem is just getting worse.

I dislike how people post on threads with made up facts and generalisations. It doesn't matter how patiently one tries to put them straight, teachers are then told "you're not special" and "you don't understand the real world" and "you and your unions run schools".

So, for our mental health and to show solidarity with our teacher colleagues, we are no longer trying to make people, who have no intention of taking our points of view on board, hear our side.

I've never met such vitriol towards teachers than I have on MN.

What ! What !

@User2764689 this is a staff association thread. We are trying to stop the absolutely horrendous and spiteful teacher bashing threads that damage the mental well being of members. Are you an association member?

#solidarity #teachermentalhealth

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay - report threads. If flowers dont work then we will have to boycott those threads.

@Appuskidu - good point!

They need to stay on their own negative threads. I have reported user as an interloper into the staff room

User2764689

Welcome to MN.

You are the problem.

I think as long as staffroom appears in active convos we will have posters wandering in, some well meaning and some less so.

Really @User2764689 - you have come here to spread your negativity and to goad us. Certainly not a staffroom friend

We don't need that in the staffroom thank you very much

User2764689
You don't have to engage on the threads over and over and over....

Didn't say that, A classic case of not reading what was written.

@FlissMumsnet - where are you when we need you?

User, I understand you havefeedback, but could you have this discussion on one of the other threads, please? Or this thread will turn into another one I have to hide. Thanks.

So why bother? If teachers don't attempt to justify themselves when they don't actually need to, the thread will die very quickly or just be a moany thread with the same moany posters who don't understand.

Mumsnet is a reasonably powerful medium and its daily readership filters in to people’s real lives. The problem with ignoring is that there would just be threads with myths, vitriol and bile that lurkers read and would take that into their own lives/situations.

I believe that a lot of the change in sometimes negative parent Whats App and Facebook usage has been fuelled a little by this and spilt into both mediums.
It is the responses of teachers (who can’t respond on Whats App and Facebook) that has helped a lot of posters find out what goes on behind the scenes and often has ended up supporting them too.
The flowers have not only been therapeutic for us but they have also helped stop threads becoming a bunfight or helped to delete some pretty goady ones.

Please don’t try and this thread get shut down too VeryGenericUserWithNumbers with derailment (even though you are perfectly entitled to your opinion)

No drama. Thread done and forgotten about now, in MN thread full ether and off active.

but trying to shut down discussion of a public sector service just doesn't seem right to me.
Nobody is doing this.
In fact there's lots of teachers on here who spend a lot of time happily helping people navigate the education system, happily discussing policy, happily discussing the positives and negatives of teaching.

It just so happens that many of us get fed up with goady generalisations and the same old crap started or fuelled by people with chips on their shoulders that go like this:

1. Sweeping generalisations either deliberately goady or just inaccurate
2. Teachers challenge generalisations and try to offer accurate information or constructive advice
3. Goady posters show up spouting crap and / or trying to derail the thread into their preferred teacher bashing topics
4. Teachers challenge again and try to give accurate information and advice
5. Goady posters start saying "see see teachers think their jobs are harder than anyone else... Teachers haven't worked in the mythical real world... Teachers don't even know what 9-5 is... So many people would love the school holidays but teachers just bitch about having to do some marking... Why don't teachers leave if it's so crap? Probably because they couldn't get a job doing anything else".

It's the same old goady crap, and what's worse is that all too often there's terrible advice in there as well that could hinder parents getting the resolution they seek (eg. Refuse detentions because they can't do anything, demand to see the head over tiny issue, use the word safeguarding in your email so they have to take you seriously, we did X and got the teacher sacked so try this)

And having explained reasonably to you user, have some flowers

I am not a teacher, just a parent and a volunteer in a primary school.

Thank you, for the work that goes into putting a lesson together, trying to deliver that lesson when some children are just determined to disrupt the class and all the shit that comes along with being a teacher.

I was truly hoping that this would be a turning point, that homeschooling would open the eyes of some parents to the difficulties of teaching a child.

If needed I will be sticking a bunch of flowers on a thread. You have my support. Again, thank you.

I haven't perfected the art of laying zen flowers yet and have (probably stupidly) been engaging too much.
But I will spontaneously combust if I read one more thicko person posting "how can you say your holidays are unpaid when you get a salary in August."
So maybe I should try harder to ignore.

@MontysOarlock thank you for your kind words of support

#solidarity