The Fifty Ninth Republic - May Half Term beckons

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Well, we got slated whatever we provided. Too much/too little, too easy/too hard, too tech-based/too much printing required.
No one gave a monkeys that we were thrown in at the deep end with zero training or funding and most of us were perching at the kitchen table on our own little old laptops.
And now we're working all hours trying to scoop everyone back on the bus and move them along and we're getting all sorts of grief for that too.
Can you tell I've had enough? Been in this game too long, I think.
Maybe it's time to jack it in...

Yes, Is aw my first 'what are teachers doing' comment on a thread for quite some time yesterday! Apparently when year 11 leave we all go and drink gin in gardens again.

You sound thoroughly fed-up, Ange, not surprised with the isolation ruining your half term on top of everything else.

I've started a thread. I didn't even mention covid.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4260657-This-government-still-doesnt-give-a-shit-about-schools-or-your-kids

@motherrunner

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-57335558

Made mainstream media that Sir Kevan has resigned.

No doubt he will not be mentioned again or will just be referred to as being some ex-teacher who had ridiculously high expectations of the money that was ever going to be available for schools.

How much did they spaff to Dido Harding for T+T, whilst we’re talking about money...?!

Hmmm... 17% have already voted that the government really acres.

How???????????

Sir KC resigning will be the unions' faults. You wait.

Apparently when year 11 leave we all go and drink gin in gardens again

I’ll take my Pimms and show ‘em!

LKS2 here - my class are pretty much where they should be, academically. They are, however, very immature in themselves - much less able than usual to resolve their own squabbles without adult support, and many of them believe they are the centre of the universe. I have had to work very hard to get a grip on behaviour following the spring term lockdown, but they have now adjusted to having boundaries again. The gaps they have are mostly social/emotional, not academic.

Well actually, when year 11 and 13 leave I do gain 10 extra frees a week . I will be given jobs like rewriting schemes of work to take account of things we haven't had time to teach properly this year, write new tests for the new schemes of work, etc. It won't be sitting on my backside time, but it also won't be anywhere near as strenuous as teaching that many exam classes.

many of them believe they are the centre of the universe

Yes, exactly that. They seem genuinely unable to deal with the fact that they need to listen to the adult who is teaching the class, and nobody is coming along afterwards to cajole them through the work.

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Still a resounding silence from all the posters shouting about MH of children and the detriment to the poor disadvantaged children during lockdown.

Yes it was hard but just fucking own the fact you didn’t want your children at home rather than hide behind pretending to give a shit about other children. I know you all know that. I wanted to say it here and not elsewhere sorry!

Yes, well, we'll see what they have to say on noble's new thread perhaps!

They seem genuinely unable to deal with the fact that they need to listen to the adult who is teaching the class, and nobody is coming along afterwards to cajole them through the work.

Absolutely! Stamina is shot to pieces as well - it was worse in September though! My class needed a lot of 'reminding' about my expectations for classroom behaviour and work in general. When they first came back, several of them seemed to imagine that writing anything was optional.

Yes. The bare minimum seems to be their mantra.
Our school last term has put on compulsory private style ‘prep’ (but called them ‘homework clubs) for pupils identified as needing further support and it can be such a frustrating waste of time for some where they write a couple of words, sometimes even a sentence and then claim to be done and then cause disruption.
There are better solutions out there than ‘stay in school for longer’ and it’s frustrating they are still not being explored.

Apparently when year 11 leave we all go and drink gin in gardens again.
I drink gin because of year 11!!! And I got three bottles from year 11 🤣

Yep MrsH where are they!? I can tell you that some are starting negative threads about teachers but I remember them on Mumsnet posting that they weren’t doing any work with their children during Jan etc. It’s just a vicious circle that again, is not going to be solved by failed ‘programmes’ from the govt. There is just too much anger and hate out there about schools in general.

I feel bad about having taken the piss out of Kevan when he signed up to the job, he seems to have more integrity than the lot of them put together.

Wondering when U4T will start flooding my thread with agreement. They are the only ones standing up for children after all.

@TortolaParadise

Just a question - if extended days are needed for pupil 'catch up' and tuition is needed for pupil 'catch up' was remote learning a complete waste of all of our time? Just a question - feeling confused!!

This is a very good question. I worked my arse off to deliver quality online lessons, to the point that I sought CPD in order to help me do so. My own kids didn't have any remote lessons and were off for three weeks longer than England. Perhaps their school got it right - everybody is now in the same boat for no need for a catch up plan.

This is tongue in cheek by the way. I felt and say the impact of being sent endless photographed worksheets.

None of this is making any sense.

*saw

Yes. The bare minimum seems to be their mantra

So agree with this. I kept one kid in for 1 minute at break to pull him up on his lack of work. He genuinely thought he’d done loads, he’d done 11 words the whole lesson

@ChloeDecker

Have no idea why there are three

I hope it's not a premonition! 😂 👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻

Thank you all, you're all so lovely.

Difficult for Kevan not to resign really, now that the media have picked up on how thoroughly the government are disregarding his recommendations.

Have we seen this?

Our lunch break is 40 minutes. Would love to know how we’ll get 2000 kids through in 10 minutes 🤔

Yes, I have seen it. That's 0 minutes lunch break for me then!

Tosser.

(Gavelar, not you!)