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!

Happy to ignore them. The bitter and angry crowd are a waste of energy who want to cling to their own bigoted views on teachers. I did see a thread about 'paying' for Mumsnet and I certainly won't be doing that. Apparently it's ok to be viciously unpleasant and prejudiced about a group of people as long as they are teachers!

I've just ignored. The people who post those threads are not in the slightest bit interested in hearing why we're not all running 8 hours of online class a day, etc. Anything we say or do will be wrong or not good enough.

They're frustrated and looking for someone to place their anger on in a trying time.

I called my form class this week to check up on things and all the parents were lovely. Asked how I was doing, said they knew how hard it must be. Thanked me for me time and effort and said their kids were safe and happy, but very much looking forward to getting back when we can. I think of those conversations, instead of spending my time in these bloody echo chambers.

I don't need to defend myself as I know exactly the effort I am putting in and the measures that I have taken to support my students.The teacher bashing threads are boring and predictable. I have better uses for my precious time!

@BlackboardMonitorVimes thank you for your kind words

@FaFoutis thank you for your kind words

It’s similar to arguing with a stroppy, righteous, illogical teenager.
Pointless to elaborate.
I agree that it often does much more damage to engage, merely fuelling the sense of outrage and confidence that they are correct in their opinions. I gave up explaining Baker Days, holidays and the hours I work years ago, and without fuel, the accuser usually gets bored and wanders onto a different topic.

Mnhq have finally got back to me about my reports - they are going to investigate

Academics Corner gets occasional visitors but not as many. I wonder if that is because it is tucked away in MN Jobs.

I've been really shocked by the threads here and the general mood on Twitter, etc - I got that teachers weren't popular, but I had no idea that we were actually the scum of the earth. Have fallen out with my usually amiable bil about it.

It sometimes gets forgotten that the government closed schools. Almost as if teachers closed them. Teachers are just small cogs in a bigger machine.

Oh you’re all so good with the , I’d have been too tempted by 🖕

I was tempted by . That'd wind em right up.

Even my dsis asked me if I had been furloughed. Just prior to that she'd been telling me about an app her DC was using that the teachers were setting and marking work each day and I'd told her about the online platform I was using daily.

This generation of parents are stuck in the 80s. I'm hopeful that the children going through the education system now or in the last 15 years will get it.

Actually, although I'm generalising, my younger parents recently have all been quite vocal about how hard most of their teachers worked at school thinking about it.

Yes there are shit teachers like there are shit members of staff in every profession before it is pointed out to us.

Unless you are a teacher or live with one, you can never know what the job entails. It is a lifestyle choice. Other people will never understand and also you can't argue with stupid. Best answer is: 'You are absolutely right, it's so easy. Finish at 3 pm every day and months of holidays. You should do a PGCE too!'
Before school shut, I was teaching lessons to those left, plus loading everything on Google classroom for those who were already isolating. After school shut, I was at my computer from 8.30 am till around 2/3 pm every day without a break: answering emails, setting work, marking work, phoning parents and talking to colleagues. Then doing more planning later on.
Then I did have a shortened Easter 'holiday' (half of what we should have had). Now we have had training on teaching live lessons and recording ourselves and will be starting that next week. It's terrifying.

The way teachers get treated is ridiculous, I'm not one (my job in a school doesn't get mentioned ever, I don't exist) thank goodness.

It is disappointing that given that MN has had a pretty good service from teachers over the years advising parents on school issues, curriculum changes (how many threads on the 9-1 changes!), individual support and advice on kids with mental health issues or SEN, advice on revision, options, school selection and it goes on and on and on...that they think endless threads criticising schools and individual teachers and the response to a global pandemic which is a) largely beyond our control and b) massively inconsistent due to total lack of leadership from the DfE, is somehow ‘in the spirit of Mumsnet’.

I'm hiding all the teacher threads now. I'm really struggling with all of this now. It's absolutely awful.

Maybe we should all report any threads in The Staffroom that are not started by school staff and always report any teacher bashing as not being in the spirit.

Absolutely agree noblegiraffe.

The spirit of Mumsnet isn't what it used to be. I can't imagine many teachers being prepared to pay for premium.

I can't anyway, I have to pay for my own subscriptions to resource sites, whiteboard pens, glue sticks etc. first.

Not a teacher but work in a school. My head emailed everyone yesterday to say how many positive comments he has had from parents and he was proud. Think there are just some nuts on here lately. Everyone I know in real life is happy with teachers.

Yes, I've never seen so many teacher threads. Although they all tend to centre round:"let's open schools so I don't have to do childcare anymore". Schools have been with for 2 weeks. Most people I.know will happily take their kids abroad for 2 weeks in term.time, so why the sudden.angst over missing education?

And if people want schools open for childcare, be honest about it and don't expect us to be teaching properly. All the back to school threads just give me vague nameless anxiety.

I've only seen the negatively on here too, on social media parents haven't been able to speak highly enough of my DCs school. I think if anybody was critical there would be a mass pile on so they are probably keeping quiet.

noblegiraffe not all of us are being good with our daffs.
Some of us are using morse code.

Opps I used the wrong flower