The hours that teachers are contracted for in no way match the hours they are required to put in.
Teachers are essentially contracted for 6 and a half hours a day with then the long school holidays. The breaks they are contracted for can nearly never be taken, and they’ll need to cram food in or dash to the toilet in the 5 mins they have spare.
My wife is a primary school teacher and she easily works 10-11 hour days regularly, occasionally longer, and has to work multiple hours on weekends, and usually multiple days per week through holidays.
The demand and expectations on teachers to meet ever increasing curriculum and Ofsted requirements mean that they’re doing boatloads of unpaid overtime.
Poor PC Murdoch’s going to have his hands full with Wullie ,Wee Eck, Fat Boab and Soapy Soutar off School
Good for them; being a teacher is thankless work. Teachers work too hard and deal with too much shit to not deserve an adequate wage. Best of luck to em.
Good for them.
Just hope parents do not let their children fall behind for missed time.
No surprise. About 100,000 teachers are thinking of jacking it in.
That’s what the effective privatisation of schools and 12 years of the Tories has given us.
The Tories don’t give a fuck, of course. Little Tarquin or Persephone will go to a private school so are insulated from it. In fact, it helps them to disadvantage “the oiks’ – they might upset the likelihood of ending up with a meritocracy.
some of my uni professors are striking rn but they haven’t told us which lectures we’re missing so we sorta just have to show up and wait to find out if we’re meant to be there or not
Can parents fine the government for each day of school missed while teachers have to wait for improved conditions to be agreed?
The SNP promise the world at elections but act like the Conservatives when in power.
It isn’t affordable they say. But all those wasteful project of theirs are. So one must assume they do not value the hard work teachers put into their profession and instead want to impoverish them just like the Tories.
Didn’t they do something similar with refuse collectors recently?
Those who think teachers have it easy should try the job for just one week. They would not last until lunchtime on the first day and it might shut them up about holidays and prove to them teachers don’t go home five minutes after the kids do. Having the opportunity to work with kids was fantastic and I really loved that, however the long hours, lack of professional autonomy, pointless government targets and thankless parents just means teaching is not worth it.
When education is so important in society, you need teaching to be a well-respected and well-paid profession. Instead, we have a system which discourages people from staying in the profession longer than a few years, or that just puts off applicants altogether. We could very well see teaching reach crisis point if the staff exodus is allowed to continue, which I very much see the Tories allowing, to the detriment of future generations.
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The hours that teachers are contracted for in no way match the hours they are required to put in.
Teachers are essentially contracted for 6 and a half hours a day with then the long school holidays. The breaks they are contracted for can nearly never be taken, and they’ll need to cram food in or dash to the toilet in the 5 mins they have spare.
My wife is a primary school teacher and she easily works 10-11 hour days regularly, occasionally longer, and has to work multiple hours on weekends, and usually multiple days per week through holidays.
The demand and expectations on teachers to meet ever increasing curriculum and Ofsted requirements mean that they’re doing boatloads of unpaid overtime.
Poor PC Murdoch’s going to have his hands full with Wullie ,Wee Eck, Fat Boab and Soapy Soutar off School
Good for them; being a teacher is thankless work. Teachers work too hard and deal with too much shit to not deserve an adequate wage. Best of luck to em.
Good for them.
Just hope parents do not let their children fall behind for missed time.
No surprise. About 100,000 teachers are thinking of jacking it in.
That’s what the effective privatisation of schools and 12 years of the Tories has given us.
The Tories don’t give a fuck, of course. Little Tarquin or Persephone will go to a private school so are insulated from it. In fact, it helps them to disadvantage “the oiks’ – they might upset the likelihood of ending up with a meritocracy.
some of my uni professors are striking rn but they haven’t told us which lectures we’re missing so we sorta just have to show up and wait to find out if we’re meant to be there or not
Can parents fine the government for each day of school missed while teachers have to wait for improved conditions to be agreed?
The SNP promise the world at elections but act like the Conservatives when in power.
It isn’t affordable they say. But all those wasteful project of theirs are. So one must assume they do not value the hard work teachers put into their profession and instead want to impoverish them just like the Tories.
Didn’t they do something similar with refuse collectors recently?
Those who think teachers have it easy should try the job for just one week. They would not last until lunchtime on the first day and it might shut them up about holidays and prove to them teachers don’t go home five minutes after the kids do. Having the opportunity to work with kids was fantastic and I really loved that, however the long hours, lack of professional autonomy, pointless government targets and thankless parents just means teaching is not worth it.
When education is so important in society, you need teaching to be a well-respected and well-paid profession. Instead, we have a system which discourages people from staying in the profession longer than a few years, or that just puts off applicants altogether. We could very well see teaching reach crisis point if the staff exodus is allowed to continue, which I very much see the Tories allowing, to the detriment of future generations.