so postal strike over, who is next for the character assasins,hmm.butcher baker or candlestick maker

RE: so postal strike over, who is next for the character assasins,hmm.butcher baker or candlestick m

Bramble pickers, babysitters and astronauts must be up there.

 

Not Trying To Get Rid Of You But.........

I thought you was buggering off to the pub over half hour ago

 

Geddis memorial lav...........

I see you're on 999 posts. Make your 1,000th special (Y) (Y) (Y)

 

1000 th post then......

Im now off to the boozer ...... cant beat that really!.

 

dead obvious - TEACHERS - another bunch of moaning, whinging, work shy layabouts who think they...

are hard done to.</p>

They don't know what a full weeks work is and need a good dose of reality.</p>

13 weeks annual holiday, pah!! Start at 9am, 1hr for lunch and finished by 3pm, pah!!!</p>

cue Tina Tyke.</p>

</p>

 

Roll On Your 2000th Post..........

to see if you can beat going to the boozer for a couple

 

Not at my school they dont.

I start at 8.25am, have 15 minutes for break (morning only as we don't have one in the afternoon), 40 minutes for lunch and then finish at 2.45pm. The teachers are all in school much earlier than me (I get there by 8.15am) and leave around 4pm unless they have any after school activities to oversee.

 

Ok mate if that's what you think!

I start at 7.45 at school - kids in at 9.00. Dinner break is usuallyt 15 minutes after marking and preparing work for the afternoon! Leave at five - three more hours of work when I get home. Work five to six hours on Sunday - so yeah I do nothing! Contracted for 37 hours a week and generally do 60+. The easy life! </p>

 

what do you do during those extra 8 weeks holiday a year you get

extra to most people. </p>

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I take an extra job to make up for the shortfall in salary that I make.

To echo LiverpoolRed and to sound like a "whining teacher" I start the day at 7am, usually leave school around 6:30pm where I get to take my work home and work for another 2 or 3 hours that night. On average I will devote 8-12 hours on the weekend to school. A good teacher will never just work 8-3 and toss it off. Yes there are crap teachers that do so (I work with some of them) but most put in 10 to 12 hours every day.

FACT.

 

Go into work for a lot of them - plan work for the new term

Sorry you haven't got a clue

 

But you're in the US

So aren't your holidays even longer, particularly when compared to what they get in business?

Had a friend in Chicago who was a teacher - ridiculously long summer holiday, although then she moved to California and the school there has a "rolling" holiday cycle whereby the school is hardly ever closed, just that one set of kids are off any particular week.

 

Oh aye. So what the **** are "inset days" all about then

6 weeks off and they can't be arsed to pop in the friday before to check the place is still there.

A **** load of holidays, give the kids some copying out to do so you can sit at the front and read the Sun, home by four and they whinge they're underpaid!

 

Training days

and yes we still go in before to make sure everythings okay - I spent most of my holiday helping to install a new IT suite. </p>

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By the way I don't whinge - enjoy my job think I'm well paid but it's easy to generalise when you're on the outside looking in</p>

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RE: But you're in the US

Do have a longer summer but no 1/2 terms or Easter breaks - actually have less holiday than the UK. Also worked out the hours we work over a year (not including our holiday time) compared to someone in an office job - good teachers work more hours for a lot less money and definitely a lot less respect from parents and people like Rothred who think it is an easy job and it is our fault when kids fail.

 

RE: Oh aye. So what the **** are "inset days" all about then

There are teachers like this out there and maybe all yours were like this (if so, I feel sorry for you as you were cheated out of an education) When I was in school I felt the same way about teachers. Now I am one, I realize that I had no idea about what they did. Have a lot more respect for my old teachers that tried to teach and to educate kids as opposed to giving busy-work.

 

RE: But you're in the US

I never think they do have an "easy life", gone out witha couple of teachers and know what they put in outside of school hours.


(p.s. PM!)

 

I think you will find that the original post from Rothred was a

WIND UP!!!!!!!

as can be seen by the
"They don't know what a full weeks work is and need a good dose of reality.

13 weeks annual holiday, pah!! Start at 9am, 1hr for lunch and finished by 3pm, pah!!!

cue Tina Tyke. "

It certainly worked well didnt it?

 

you just chuck a bit of bait in and up they come

they are a touchy lot teachers aren't they?,I wonder whythey are always on the defensive?</p>