“Welcome back to teaching, Mr Chips! Before you get started, you just need to complete this 532-page form from OFSTED and… hello? Are you still there??”
Quick straw poll…
Does anyone on this sub have retired parents who are teachers or patents who are going to return to teaching, or have left the profession themselves and are going to return?
My daughter’s primary has lost two.teachrrs and been unable to replace them so now this year all the classes spent a half term with the teaching assistant doing the teaching as the parents complain and so the teachers are juggled round to the 5/7 classes with the most parents.
[deleted]
I’m a music teacher. In a junior school. And a tutor at a university.
I teach in 6 classrooms a week. Plus groups of kids for ukelele, guitar, keyboard & choir. Principal is repeatedly threatening compulsory redundancies at the end of the academic year. So I put in the unpaid overtime.
My uni line manager is an anti vaxxer. Expects me to attend a performance attended by 200 people. In two weeks.
Work stress is insane ATM.
I want to retire. I’m in my sixties. But can’t afford to retire.
What they forget to tell you is they will all have to have a DBS check.
That right there can be 8 weeks
NQTs are barely lasting three years these days. Maybe the government should work on fixing that instead of dragging teachers out of retirement? I left and you could not pay me to go back. The job should be about helping kids to learn and to get them to love learning, not constantly trying to collect evidence to show they can do something and preparing them for standardised tests at the age of six. I did so much overtime that I burnt out spectacularly fast, not to mention the pressure I was put under to never deliver anything less than an outstanding lesson by the SLT. Teaching is a terrible job and ex-teachers are smart enough to know they will return to the same issues they left, only made worse because of COVID.
Well my mum was a teacher. But she’s 77 so it’s unlikely.
I doubt the government is very upset by this at all, they all have private schools / private tutors for their own kids and as far as they are concerned, an uneducated population is the best kind to have, they hate the idea of a well educated population as they can see straight through all the government BS
I’d only do it on the stipulation that all children are masked at all times and vaccinated. If you are not vaccinated then remove child from the school.
I just got my ticket out.. My dpt is going to be screwed.
11 comments
“Welcome back to teaching, Mr Chips! Before you get started, you just need to complete this 532-page form from OFSTED and… hello? Are you still there??”
Quick straw poll…
Does anyone on this sub have retired parents who are teachers or patents who are going to return to teaching, or have left the profession themselves and are going to return?
My daughter’s primary has lost two.teachrrs and been unable to replace them so now this year all the classes spent a half term with the teaching assistant doing the teaching as the parents complain and so the teachers are juggled round to the 5/7 classes with the most parents.
[deleted]
I’m a music teacher. In a junior school. And a tutor at a university.
I teach in 6 classrooms a week. Plus groups of kids for ukelele, guitar, keyboard & choir. Principal is repeatedly threatening compulsory redundancies at the end of the academic year. So I put in the unpaid overtime.
My uni line manager is an anti vaxxer. Expects me to attend a performance attended by 200 people. In two weeks.
Work stress is insane ATM.
I want to retire. I’m in my sixties. But can’t afford to retire.
What they forget to tell you is they will all have to have a DBS check.
That right there can be 8 weeks
NQTs are barely lasting three years these days. Maybe the government should work on fixing that instead of dragging teachers out of retirement? I left and you could not pay me to go back. The job should be about helping kids to learn and to get them to love learning, not constantly trying to collect evidence to show they can do something and preparing them for standardised tests at the age of six. I did so much overtime that I burnt out spectacularly fast, not to mention the pressure I was put under to never deliver anything less than an outstanding lesson by the SLT. Teaching is a terrible job and ex-teachers are smart enough to know they will return to the same issues they left, only made worse because of COVID.
Well my mum was a teacher. But she’s 77 so it’s unlikely.
I doubt the government is very upset by this at all, they all have private schools / private tutors for their own kids and as far as they are concerned, an uneducated population is the best kind to have, they hate the idea of a well educated population as they can see straight through all the government BS
I’d only do it on the stipulation that all children are masked at all times and vaccinated. If you are not vaccinated then remove child from the school.
I just got my ticket out.. My dpt is going to be screwed.