I teach secondary and have 2 primary age children with additional needs. DH is also working from home. It is intense. We’re both trying the juggle work, whilst homeschooling our own reluctant children and feeling the stress.
I’m the only person in my dept with children. Other teachers seem to be managing their workload plus extra ‘projects’. I’m juggling setting work for my classes and look after (feed/educate) my own children whilst getting eleven billion WhatsApp notifications from my children’s parent groups. Some of the parents are HCW and homeschooling is bottom of their list, and understandably so. I feel bad for ranting about my work when they’re rushed off their feet in busy covid wards. Other parents are stay at home parents and relishing the opportunity to home school and seem to be doing 6 hours a day as if their kids were in school. I feel like I’m failing to parent properly and I’m failing to ‘teach’ properly and I hate the way work has now infringed upon every aspect of home life. There’s no escape!
Arghhhhhh!!!
It’s just all getting to me. I’m sure tomorrow I’ll be fine again.
And while I’m really off on one, a very close friend (also a teacher, but EYFS) has told me that she has got nothing to do work wise and is uploading umpteen photos a day of her n her kids sunbathing and drinking wine in the sun!
I know the solution is to take a deep breath, and come off social media! But just needed a place to RANT and get all that off my chest!
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Cardiff76 · 22/04/2020 11:54
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