Special secondary school folk can you tell me....

[Bearnecessity]

What members of staff in your school do the bus lists and see transport in and off site and the students on/off?

In all three special schools I've taught in class staff take pupils to buses. SLT on a daily rota to supervise. Extra staff with radios to assist with difficulties. Class teacher expected to be there, with support from SLT if needed, if a pupil is refusing to get on a bus.

Thank you Sewingbea that is interesting...

TAs do the list but the whole school comes down to the front to wait for taxis. All staff expected there to help and say goodbye. It's chaos but my fave time of the day!

@Bearnecessity - are you being asked to do stuff you aren’t happy about? That’s the second ‘who does.....’ question you’ve asked recently with no explanation, just intrigued me!

When I said class staff take pupils to buses I was obviously including class teachers in that not just TAs.

I work in the office (but am a qualified teacher) I am being asked to do lunch duty, transport duty and other stuff that I did at first to help but am now doing daily despite other office staff not taking a turn. I am the lowly clerical assistant tho'. Just getting very fed up, there are a lot of problems in the school at the moment.

That sounds rubbish - if it was everyone taking a turn not so bad, but just you is very unfair, taking teacher roles without teacher pay

I'd be fed up too.

I have a progress meeting tomorrow I am plucking up courage to bring this up then but it seems if you comment in the slightest than you are deemed difficult/lazy. The others in the office make out they are so busy and their work is so vital that they can't possibly do it. Truth is they can down tools and chat at great length indefinitely and somehow still find the time to get their work done. Unless you have a been a teacher you don't know what hard work is imo.This was supposed to be my nice little office job before I trundled off into retirement and it is being made unbearable a) By constant bitching and back-biting and b) The constant p-taking with the extra duties.

How did it go @Bearnecessity?

Class staff and escorts do it here. Definitely not office staff

How did it go today?

Well despite having a meeting for upwards of 90 mins we didn't discuss it. I have had it queried about my ability to be a'teamplayer' and problems with my communication abilities. In reality there is little wrong with my communication other than I call a spade a spade. Team player nonsense is me pushing back on the constant p-taking.

I felt sorry for you until "Unless you have a been a teacher you don't know what hard work is imo". What an entitled thing to say.

And telling someone passively aggressively they are entitled isn't an entitled thing to do Mini choc?

Er, wasn't passive aggressive. I told you directly!

You did no less entitled tho'.