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!

I was not dressed a tigger - one of the students was dressed as tigger. Small year 10 student who can still squeeze into dressing up outfits

If Joe Wicks can do fancy dress Friday and a whole workout dressed as Scooby Doo then I don’t see why teachers think they can get away with not dressing as Tigger.

Come on, make an effort!

Our guidelines say we need to be professionally dressed. Doesn't specify a profession though.

Just popping in. I had my first day off since we started summer term today and it made such a difference to be able to concentrate on getting my own dc sorted - I don't think I've been so relaxed for ages!

I hid the thread about the teacher making a mistake with the answers about 5 posts in - definitely don't need to be reading that. It made me chuckle a bit though as often I make a mistake in the classroom because I'm already thinking ahead to the next thing I'm going to write on the board. I remember a particular lesson with Year 9 after a late night of marking and a tough week - I got 3 calculations in a row wrong which they all found hilarious. I tell all of my students it's difficult to do algebra on 3 hours' sleep.....

Oh you shouldn't have hidden that one! There was a classic retraction and grovel. The OP suited her name...

I have read and reread the last two posts just before @FrippEnos commented on the AIBU thread recently. I don’t understand what they are trying to say. I must be losing my teacher translation touch

God, I have NO CLUE!

Have to ask fripp!

There was an interesting one about MH and the impact of SD when schools do reopen. Already been hijacked into a 'all the rest of the keyworkers do it' thread about whether schools should open. It frustrates me so much.

@StaffAssociationRepresentative

Haha! I thought it must be a primary student. Must have given you a surprise with yr 10! Unless they are generally bonkers?!

I’m being driven mad by students emailing me about the work. Which is clearly in the place online that we put all homework. Feel like a stick record.

Currently wading my way through yr 9 reports to be done by midnight

Reports!? Dear Lord...

My school are being so good to us at the moment.

I had to tell a year 10 how to save a word document today so that he could write in boxes on a worksheet...

He's lucky I am so advanced in my IT skills!

I was signed off sick awaiting hospital treatment when all this occurred so haven't had to negotiate any working online etc. Now the hospital treatment is delayed so I'm sort of stuck in an inbetween place unable to be signed back on but feeling guilty about being signed off and worried about the impact.

I have been teaching a non specialist subject part time for the last couple of years and it's hard work at the best of times - no idea how I would have managed doing it from home without department support or decent resources (literally one set of text books with utterly shite undifferentiated tasks for each year group/block of study).

Very off topic but just wanted to say well done to everyone who is managing this time and don't let people's moaning get you down. I would secretly love to kidnap the biggest teacher bashers and stick them in front of one of my particularly lively year 9 groups for an hour's lesson and observe and give them feedback. Doubt they'd ever criticise us again.

So True! [grin}

@Piggywaspushed

Yep. End of year full reports. Did all four of my yr 7 classes just before Easter. All of yr 9 tonight.

On the plus side, in other ways our head is being very good. We’re on for 1 day every 6 weeks. We’re setting half-term long projects for KS3 and lesson by lesson for yr10 and 12. But no online zoom lessons.

They are all emailing work in instead of uploading it - duh - ah well at least it is being done.

I missed the retraction and grovel - just done 8pm clap and had a glass of wine

Best news is that I am off tomorrow afternoon as there is no cover!

Although, having my 1-2-1 meeting with my line manager on the phone for an hour was challenging, while my own kids were playing laser tag around me. And again when I have to do phone meetings with my department.

@cheesecurdsandgravy

I'm fairly sure its a fairly incoherent rant about made up things that teachers are supposed to have said, with the second post being about posts on social media saying that parents are going to find out as thewinkingprawn posted that its not the teacher that was the problem.

But that is only my interpretation of it and I could be wrong.

They are all emailing work in instead of uploading it - duh - ah well at least it is being done

I'm a git so reply: "please upload this" to emailed work.

My particular bugbear is attachments with no title and work with no name on it.

echt

I have been doing the same.

@echt, Me three!

Telegraph tomorrow: Justine MNHQ has helped set up a helpline for frazzled parents who need advice on homeschooling.

Not seen it mentioned on here?

I prefer it emailed our VLE is so clunky. It takes too long to retrieve it:-(

a helpline for frazzled parents
Presumably staffed by the volunteer teacher army.

It's a pretty valid point as to who is going to advise the frazzled parents ...