Strikes
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My youngest missed enough school because of covid and now she's missing out on classroom time because teachers aren't happy about having to do work from home... Like every ****er else.
****ing joke, tbh.
Fooksake they never work beyond 3pm.. Six weeks off in the summer... do they actually do any teaching [HASHTAG]#strikes[/HASHTAG]
All my sympathies for strikes lie with the frontline NHS staff. You could triple their pay for me and I'd still suggest they deserve a bit more. They just get on with it without 6 weeks holidays, 2 weeks for Christmas, half terms, Easter holidays.
Actually pissed off the bairn is missing school because teachers 'think' they work too many hours. Biggest ****ing LOL in a long time.
As I said, a lot of people do extra work from home and dont make an issue about it.
I'm cushy mate, don't get in until 8.30 and out by 3 remember?
Love it, the perks of staying on in school after 15
What perks would they be, other than a job you hate, where the hours are too many and you have to strike for more pay, that don't sound very cushy to me.
Surely if you was more motivated and career minded, you would leave and find a job where they treat you better - or maybe that's your failing, you haven't got the balls to.
I said from the beginning mate, they are hiding behind the nurses.
They think the public support all strikers, it couldn't be further from the truth.
They are hiding behind the NHS to justify their own selfish greed.
I hadn't actually thought about it which tends to happen when I post on here. I just go with the flow for banter.
Penny has dropped tonight for some reason and I cant believe it. What sort of work ethic must they have built in that only being on the job for 7/7.5 hours and having to do a bit from home is too much?
No wonder the government are slamming the door in their faces over negotiations.
Its no big deal for my kids. They have tax, NI insurance, car repayment and now mortgage deductions so what's the difference.
Tell them they are just investing in their future. Median salaries for graduates are £9000 per year higher than non-graduates so its a good investment as well.
I actually agree with this when it comes to the teachers. I remember having a bit of an online argument (yeah, I know, unusual for me!) with a friend of mine who is a teaching assistant, when the COVID jabs were first being introduced. She didn’t like it when I said teachers don’t even make the top 10 most deserving professions to queue jump for the vaccine.
You should have read some of the comments I received, from her teacher colleagues, when I said they were the most laziest profession in the world!
mid one of my lads is behind, that they are doing work on the evening/weekend then it’s one of two things.
1. They are being mismanaged by me.
2. They are not at the level for the project I have given them.
now if teachers are all heading home to do work, then either the government is at fault or they are all just not good enough.
Bit of marking, planning and reports at home sometimes, but mainly done in school that. And this is full time two languages.
As others have said though, most people do some extras and it's part of their yearly salary. My own contract states 37.5 but I work a minimum 45 hours a week and don't get overtime for that. I get a yearly salary.
Nor do I get 13 weeks paid holiday a year.
Maybe she's just better organised than all the one's moaning they can't do their job on their current conditions?
I've never said other jobs don't do these things and I would agree it is "part of the job", indeed that was my point. I've done probably 10 different jobs (as I had to pay my way through uni) and the majority have no real expectation of much work being done at home. We're slightly comparing apples and pears here.
As for moaning, I answered questions I was directly asked with true statements. Not sure what people wanted me to do? I could probably try and find a link to a union site saying teachers work 60+ hours a week, etc based on a survey they did but that doesn't reflect me.
Well done her. The government's own research came out at an average of 49.6 hours per week. I have, on site, 23 hours of teaching, 6 hours of form time, 2 hours of meetings, 2 hours of duty and 2.5 hours of enrichments every week. I also do two hours of "voluntary" lessons for my year elevens afterschool. That's 37 hours even if I fanciful imagine I get all my lunched and breaks undisturbed. Without having done any planning, marking, etc. I reckon if I did any less than 45-50 I'd be out of a job by the Summer.
I don't think anyone realistically buys the idea that teachers work 60 hour weeks, it's bollocks.
Teachers who are striking really should be more realistic in their narrative, as they will then get better support. Making claims like those hours (i'm not saying you are) and that without teachers the world stops and we're all cavemen again, makes people scornful.
I know my own Mrs isn't overworked, and I know her conditions are fine, but I also know she hasn't had a proper pay rise in line with inflation for years.
