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Original poster

Retirees, who’s going back?😂

32 replies

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 17/12/2021 09:52

I’ll start.

No fucking way🖕🏼

Feel sorry for the students, but the way the government has treated teachers!

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amillionmenonmars · 17/12/2021 15:42

Haa haaa haaaa haaa haaa.

That would be a no.

Philandbill · 17/12/2021 18:54

I was also laughing at that suggestion. Years off retirement myself, and working full time, but I messaged my old line manager to see if she would like to come out of retirement to cover at my current school. Her response was not polite...

Fenelladepompom · 17/12/2021 20:03

Deluded.

rosegoldwatcher · 17/12/2021 21:39

Pulling out my own toenails would be preferable.

barbrahunter · 17/12/2021 21:40

Let me think about this.
ermmm, nope.

Barbie222 · 17/12/2021 22:23

I like working from home now, it's far less stressful. Not going back, no.

toomuchicecream · 18/12/2021 08:33

Such a shame the terms of my (partial) ill health retirement prohibit this….

Even without that, not a fucking chance🤣🤣🤣

GettingLardy · 18/12/2021 14:20

Bollocks to that. Why would anyone go back?

NotAnFA · 19/12/2021 22:14

On another forum it was suggested that this was a similar call to those in health care...this was my response:

From my perspective, a teacher who has left but not yet 'retired', one of those who are qualified and therefore the target of this so-called encouragement, I would say there is an enormous difference between the two.
Firstly, as to the 'importance' of the role. A health care worker is saving lives. I don't equate that level of need to putting myself in front of a class where the primary reason for the public need for me to do so is so their parents can go to work.
Then, I see health care workers encouraged back being given some protection - be that PPE or limited public contact. Certainly protection in proportion to the level of risk to which they are exposed. I don't see any such protection for me should I return to the classroom, indeed - if I were needed I would suggest that the reasons for that need would be because the teacher was ill...and probably because they were working in an environment where infection was high. Asking the next 'wave' to go 'over the top' when they've seen their colleagues mown down isn't what I would call inspired 'encouragement'!

borntobequiet · 20/12/2021 05:57

No way would I go back into school. I have no idea how teachers have stayed sane over the last nearly two years.
I’ll continue to work part time in other, safer sectors.

timanddaisy · 20/12/2021 10:25

So let me get this right - the plan is to send people with a higher risk of getting seriously ill from COVID or developing complications into the very place where infections are highest and there are little to no mitigations?????

Hahahahhahahhaha

CallmeHendricksGingleBells · 20/12/2021 13:05

It's almost amusing that all those teachers who may well have left the profession on the advice of all the posters on here telling them to quit if they didn't like how things are, are now being begged to return to help out as the shit has, as predicted, hit the fan.
Who could blame them for saying "fuck right off?!"

fussychica · 20/12/2021 13:06

Such a good idea - not!

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 20/12/2021 14:55

On another thread, the government are hoping to send civil servants in from the DFE, if there aren’t enough teachers.

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CallmeHendricksGingleBells · 20/12/2021 15:02

Who are they expecting to train those civil servants in what to do once they arrive on site?
We've all got enough to do as it is.

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 20/12/2021 15:14

schoolsweek.co.uk/dbs-ready-for-supply-teacher-drive-as-dfe-pledges-to-release-own-staff/

Here’s the link

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LostArcher · 20/12/2021 19:13

Why don't they cancel Ofsted inspections and send in the inspectors to cover - they know how to be outstanding, after all.

HamCob · 20/12/2021 23:06

@LostArcher

Why don't they cancel Ofsted inspections and send in the inspectors to cover - they know how to be outstanding, after all.
Sir Michael Wilshaw is going back apparently...so that's erm...a grand total of one then Grin
CallmeHendricksGingleBells · 21/12/2021 08:59

Bet the school he turns up in will be thrilled.

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 21/12/2021 10:41

Michael Wilsher🤮 bet the staff there aren’t maki g dolls to stick pins in…

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picklespark · 21/12/2021 12:47

@CallmeHendricksGingleBells

Who are they expecting to train those civil servants in what to do once they arrive on site? We've all got enough to do as it is.
It’s not just for any civil servants - it’s a call to DfE staff who have QTS and are ex-teachers. I’m in that category and there isn’t a cat in hell’s chance I’ll be going back into school come January. I barely made it out with my sanity the first time…
ReallyMary · 21/12/2021 17:41

Nope nope nope nope no.

Left last year already been asked back by SLT. There are 6 of them in a non teaching role - they can go in and do the teaching first.

TortolaParadise · 22/12/2021 00:02

I am loving your response @Not An FA.

physicskate · 22/12/2021 09:56

Oops. Looks like this would end my maternity leave prematurely. Otherwise I would have been first in the queue... bahahaha 😂

Knackerelli · 22/12/2021 17:51

Sir Michael Wilshaw is going into his mates school and knows what class he’s having. Everyone else will have most of their money taken by the supply agency and not know where they are going from day to day. It’s a pr stunt.