What can I be signed off work with

[Rosebirdie]

I am a teacher and due back at work this week. I had my first child last year and had no intention of returning but did. I don't want to go back, the panic/fear has already set in. I've spent all week sitting down to do planning for this term and just being incredibly unproductive.

The problem is my boss is amazing, she has done so much to make me feel settled,.constant check ins etc. She knows I have been struggling. But it's just not right and hate it every second I am there. I am medicated for anxiety but feel that's not touching the sides.

My question is, what can I be signed off for? I don't feel it's necessarily WRS in the typical way, it's I hate my job, I want to be at home with my little one, I can't focus on wr tasks.

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Yeah l was on the group. I don’t know how many teachers there are in the U.K., but 100000 is a huge amount.

Teachers enjoy working with students. It’s the rest of the stuff that drives them out. I’m really thankful that my dd is in 6th form and hadn’t long to go.

Its so unfair on the students that their teachers feel like this. Instead of teacher bashing, you should be protesting about the hideous state that teaching has become as it affects your child.

I agree.

I really hope people will support the upcoming strike action as well rather than just telling the teachers we do have left that they should just leave if they don’t like it.

512000 teachers in U.K.

20% of them are in that group. That’s not good at all. I suspect more would be if they knew about it.

No you don't. To resign at Christmas you have to resign by Oct 31 so this gives her time to discuss a possible shorter resignation period with her boss tomorrow and then resign.

If you're a head it can be a full term notice but not a teacher.