Temporary broom closet in lieu of staff creating a staffroom

[TheHoneyBadger]

Just in case she got lucky and is in the one school that still goes to the pub.

I've signed that petition as well

Behind as always
We seem to have quietly ditched flight paths and are currently target grade free at KS3, that’s new for this year.

@Loshad have you found the Fourty-first Republic now? Hope so!

Thanks January I have, always behind the times.

Just turned the little heater on as am sure we'll all be in here in a few minutes 🌞

Is there any ribena?

Oo hello mrsH. Tesco's Hi fruit Apple and Blackcurrant any good?

I'm just going to have a little tearful rant in the corner. Posted my woes on the end of the other thread but you'd deserted already.

I hate how uncomfortable it is to try and assert yourself and set boundaries as a teacher full stop let alone as a part timer. I want to say basically a full timer gets 2 and a half the amount of pay I get and 2 and a half times the amount of ppa I get so clearly if you're giving me the same amount of planning responsibility of full timers I am having directed time well beyond my directed hours and I don't have hours extra to spend supporting a student to produce lessons for two different year groups. Need a little scream.

Perfect, January - thanks. A hot ribena substitute is just what the doctor ordered.
Honey I should know this but who is directing you to do all this work? Because it's clearly unreasonable and you are well within your rights to ask what they'd like you to not do so you can do this. It's unsustainable for you.

Honey I would be emailing my line manager exactly what you've said there. Wierdly I've found that being more assertive gets you more respect . I have been told I am intimidating though! Even by SLT

Can't believe how quickly these threads are filling up.

OK, who ate all the chocolate biscuits before I got here?

Yep, say exactly that @TheHoneyBadger it's really clearly put. Sometimes I imagine I'm standing up for someone else (which you are, all the other part time staff now and in the future) as it can be easier to fight injustice against someone else!

Honey Assert yourself and DO NOT feel guilty.

I'm FT and hate the feeling that I work a million more hours than other FTers. It must be even worse if you're PT and the expectations are there.

It wasn't me chocolate
Wipes hands and brushes crumbs guiltily

Honey you definitely need to assert yourself here. I'm feeling overworked, but at least I'm paid for working ft. Working ft for 0.4 pay is definitely not worth it at all.

snow too pitiful to close school here today, but has anyone else been told snow days are no longer a thing and we'll all teach from home?

I'm hoping it will mean we'll agonise less over closing, but the kids are well annoyed.

chocolate that might have been me. I always eat more biscuits when I'm sitting at a laptop for ages. They're just there.

We haven't been told that Edna, but I can see it coming. I hate the thought of that. I love a snow day. The childlike excitement of not going to school and building snowmen instead is fabulous.

I really hope snow days continue!

I wouldn't be set up for a one off day from home either. I'd also not make my child attend that day so....!

Her answer is for me not to be available live to my students. That isn't an option. When we're in school I don't expect to sit at the front of the class planning and marking and dealing with emails and student teachers and just put a list of instructions on the board and then ignore the class. It's the core of my job. If I haven't got time to teach and support according to her then I definitely don't have time to support students and create all remote learning content for a year group. She seems to think the teaching bit is optional which is just weird to me!

That's true herc. I am using my visualiser loads for teaching online, but wouldn't have it with me for a one off snow day. And I certainly wouldn't have prepared lessons and worksheets ready to be sent out. So snow days may well have to continue.

Well I thought the coronavirus board was bad till I started a FSM thread on AIBU.

You should know better than that noble

honey I fully agree that teaching is the core part of the job, and in fact, is the best part of the job by far!! I love being in the classroom (apart from when I hate it obviously), but I've never felt any enjoyment from planning or marking, they are necessary evils imo. Even if you were only planning and marking though, that would assume the other teachers are also only planning and marking. So they should get equal amounts of jobs to do and, at a push, you should get half as many jobs as any of them. And that's being generous. So half of all meetings, half the amount of planning that they're doing, half the amount of marking (is this working out at least? I assume you have fewer classes to mark work for).