Let's boycott all school threads outside of Education

[Everyexitisanentrance]

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!

The Carnation revolution, 1974. I was a teenager and fascinated by the idea of a non-violent revolution, Piggywaspushed.

@Piggywaspushed

Oh, and scorpionqueen who first suggested the flower protest!

I thought that was me

Oh, I thought I checked ! Whoops. Sorry. Blame the

I think I might be thinking of the Rose Revolution in Georgia though...

Must have been one I actually missed as I can't see a deleted one.

I’m not a teacher but I just wanted to say I’m sorry the world is such a shitty place at the minute. I work in a key industry, utility, I’m working from home but will go in if the shit hits the fan. The thing is, I’ve done my shit hitting the fan role before. It’s a little bit more stressful now because there is a risk of contracting CV and get shit loads of abuse from customers (I’ll be drafted into the office if our service stops and people don’t respond well to utilities stopping at the best of times, let alone with all the extra animosity around at the minute). Teachers, however, are literally working out a whole new way to teach. During your PGCE you aren’t taught how to deliver online curriculum for students when you can’t see them. Or provide childcare for students who you potentially have no connection to. You’re re-learning your whole job in a matter of weeks.

I really feel for the teachers during all this. I occasionally work with KS4 students. It’s only a term and even then, not every week. The course was just about to wrap up when my work stopped all non-essential meetings and shortly after we went into lockdown. The teacher was going to send me the end of course outputs from the students but then lockdown happened and everything changed. I know the teacher is extremely busy and sending things through to me is not even on the priority list, let alone near the top, but I feel like I don’t have closure on the course. I haven’t given the students feedback on how much they’ve taken in and how much they’ve progressed in the short time I’ve known them. I can’t imagine how teachers feel when you have taught that student for most of the year, or in some cases over several years. Yet with all that, you just need to re-learn your whole job and support your students when they are facing this unprecedented change in their life, whilst trying to understand what that change means for you personally.

Full credit to @Appuskidu for the flowers idea. I love seeing them crop up. We are all in this together.

Everyexit thank you for this! I’ve been so upset recently by the teacher bashing threads that I have almost stopped using mumsnet. This has made me sad because I’ve been here for years and have been supported and entertained so many times.

At this awful time, every teacher I know has stepped up. We care about our students. Teaching from home is not what we want to be doing. It’s stressful and demoralising.

I also appreciate the mumsnet deletion message about teachers being people too.

I will be posting flowers on any negative teacher posts I see. to all my fellow teachers. I’m proud of us!

As you work in utilities , I am hoping it's sewage and shit is literally hitting fans

Just popping on to give solidarity and too all of my teaching colleagues out there.

I'm just hiding the anti-teacher threads at the moment, I can do without the upset. Got enough on with trying to adapt my lessons for online teaching, get to grips with the systems and sort my own dc out for next week!

Hoping the new term goes well - I've told all of my students to expect technical hitches next week but that we'll soldier on until we get there!

Another teacher who has reached their limit with reading the endless negative teacher bashing threads. As a consequence, these days I hardly read this forum. Between time spent at school teaching NHS workers' DC, sorting out distance learning plus keeping up with many other designated tasks, I am working flat out (like those in many other jobs). Nice to hear the positive messages on this thread though. Thank you.

I'm not a teacher but I have family who are. I know how hard they work, late nigh†s and working throughout their holidays (and still working throughout lockdown). I am getting fed up with the constant bashing on MN. I too reported the deleted thread. OP, thanks for starting this thread. I too will be posting flowers on any teacher bashing threads.

The lovely people posting here have made me feel a lot better so thankyou.
I've had a good cry today about missing my year 6 class. I worry about them so much. I'd got to the stage of either raging or quitting some of the threads.
I'm so fretful about my class, my future class and my own kids but I know that as a profession, despite what other threads might say, we are all doing our utmost and we want the best for the students. The implications for the next few years are anxiety inducing but hopefully we will weather it. I just need to remind myself that despite supposedly popular opinion we are doing as well as can be expected. I learnt google classroom in a couple of days which considering I still can't work my phone half the time is a small miracle!

here, too! to us all

Good work everybody. Cheers! It was quite something seeing all those flowers from different names on that thread.

And thanks for the support from the non-teachers!

Typo on a teaching thread , to, not too!

I forgot to mention my lovely Year 7s who have been absolutely brilliant adapting to home learning. Today' I scheduled all of the half term's classes on Teams and got lots of queries from them over email, asking what they needed to do to prepare properly. My other classes have been great too - I've got 3 A-level classes and there is still a good level of engagement from them despite the cancellation of their A-levels.

Parents by and large have been appreciative and supportive. There are a vocal minority of teacher bashers in my reality but I have to hang on to the thought of the ones who say thank you!

Another has popped up on primary education. Some flowers gathering on there.

I'm in, was getting really annoyed/frustrated/dumbfounded by all the threads but never bite! . Thank you.

Thank you so much for this thread. I have been getting more and more anxious reading some of the input on the boards. I had seen flowers and not understood! I will spread them as far and wide as possible.

Thank you again.

@Piggywaspushed thank you I felt it was important for us to start making a stand and a boycott with flowers seems to be the only way

@Drogonssmile thank you for your kind words - much appreciated. We are delighted to support you as an NHS worker

@audweb thank you for your support

@CakeAndGin - thank you for your kind words in your understanding post

@Stygimoloch thank you for your kind words - I hope that this thread has stung mumsnet into action and going forward we as a staff association will not tolerate on-line goading and bullying

@DreamingofBrie - together we can make a stand!