What do teachers do when schools are off?

RWCNT · 31-07-2014 5:14pm

Matt_Trakker wrote: »

Teaching is pretty easy though in fairness. I did it for about 3 year but gave it up coz I really didn't care about how the students did and only did it for the money.
Never had a student fail a state exam though so I was decent at the gig.

It's easy to do a job you don't give a ****e about, in fairness.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 31-07-2014 5:16pm

Got to love the wacky hoodies down in UL a few years back. 'The three reasons I want to become a teacher, June, July, August.'

No Pants · 31-07-2014 5:16pm

RWCNT wrote: »

It's easy to do a job you don't give a ****e about, in fairness.

To a degree. Eventually you won't care enough to even go in anymore, if you feel it's that pointless. I had a job like that once. Money was way better than what I'm on now, but there was no motivation. Glad to get out of it.

Matt_Trakker · 31-07-2014 5:19pm

RWCNT wrote: »

It's easy to do a job you don't give a ****e about, in fairness.

Can't imagine it's easy to be a doctor if you don't care about it, you'd be misdiagnosing the whole time and end up getting sued or fired.

Pretty demoralising though, you go into it with high hopes and then come to the realisation that nobody really gives a hoot so long as the parent continue to pay for their kids and you keep the pass average at a nice number.

Peregrine · 31-07-2014 5:23pm

You could pay their annual salary over 9 months and leave them struggling to make ends meet for 3 months or you could pay them over 12 months.

Yes, you could pay them over 9 months and tell them to save up for the summer but it's just a lot easier if they got the same wage through the year rather than having to guess what their expenses are going to be for 3 months.

At the end of the year, they still get paid the same amount so I don't get what all the fuss is about.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 31-07-2014 5:23pm

Not G.R wrote: »

Probably have one of the most stressful and under apriciated jobs around. Their time off is deserved.

Get off it, there are a fuckton more stressful jobs out there than being a teacher and the work that's done by teachers is far more appreciated than most other occupations.

Spring Onion · 31-07-2014 5:23pm

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o1s1n · 31-07-2014 5:24pm

Well if my missus is anything to go by, they laugh at their significant other going to work in the morning and then go asleep for another 5 hours.

I envy the days off and with a hdip could be an art teacher, but Christ do teenagers do my head in. No way could I listen to them every day, I'd go mad.

marie12 · 31-07-2014 5:26pm

Week 1- get over the mentalness that is june and get those ringing bells out of head
Week 2- get over the mentalness that was the whole year
Week 3- sleep in and frolic in the garden in my bikini. Plus eat when I want to, not when a bell bursts my eardrum
Week 4- watch daytime tv and listen to radio as we miss all the good stuff
Week 5- do a course so we can get 3 more days off wahoo!!
Week 6- spend a load going on hols as we miss all the cheapest flights
Week 7-walk and wander around, taking in the wonders of the world and try get all the creatures to be quieter (oh yard duty how I miss you and that extra dosh)
Week 8-go shopping for stuff to cover my legs that aren't jeans, dresses that don't ride up and tops that have high small neck holes, ahem boobage and bra straps
Week 9- prepare myself mentally and buy a new lunch box

Dave0301 · 31-07-2014 5:26pm

Matt_Trakker wrote: »

Pretty demoralising though, you go into it with high hopes and then come to the realisation that nobody really gives a hoot so long as the parent continue to pay for their kids and you keep the pass average at a nice number.

From my experience teaching, I would have to disagree with you. You will always have some students that are unwilling to engage, especially if it is a core subject they are forced to take. But if you, as a teacher, with your subject specialist knowledge cannot engage and enthuse some students, you shouldn't be there in the first place.

mikeyjames9 · 31-07-2014 5:26pm

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Get off it, there are a fuckton more stressful jobs out there than being a teacher and the work that's done by teachers is far more appreciated than most other occupations.

sure
prison officer is stressful

but who wants teachers burned out like that

No Pants · 31-07-2014 5:26pm

I don't see what the problem is. Why shouldn't children and teenagers sit in a classroom for 48 weeks of the year and get only 20 days holidays like the rest of us. It's not like they need to play or get a break from it all.

Hotfail.com · 31-07-2014 5:26pm

pickarooney wrote: »

An annual salary paid in monthly installments.

Just like... everyone, everywhere, ever?

AFAIK they get paid for the 9/10 months they work over the course of 12 months, so they don't actually get paid for being on holidays, instead they're getting paid for the work they did in school whilst they're on holidays.. If that makes sense

Geuze · 31-07-2014 5:28pm

gigglemuch82 wrote: »

What do school teachers do when schools are off? And why do they get paid the full wage if they're not working?

All workers get paid during annual leave.

Matt_Trakker · 31-07-2014 5:31pm

Dave0301 wrote: »

From my experience teaching, I would have to disagree with you. You will always have some students that are unwilling to engage, especially if it is a core subject they are forced to take. But if you, as a teacher, with your subject specialist knowledge cannot engage and enthuse some students, you shouldn't be there in the first place.

Naw, there's only so much p!ssing against the tide you can do before throwing in the hanky.
Like I said, all my former students passed their govt exams, that's all they, the bosses and their parents cared about.
Why would you invest so much of yourself if nobody else was willing to?

corner of hells · 31-07-2014 5:35pm

They do what my brother in law does ,

Runs about six miles a day
Minds his three kids
If Dublin are playing , drinks himself into a coma
Wrecks his house doing DIY
Goes back to the school when the alarm triggers , has done this drunk and been returned back to my sister by the Gardai.
Interviews on panels for new teachers for other schools hoping they arent drug dealers or paedophiles.

Cienciano · 31-07-2014 5:51pm

looksee wrote: »

Oh lord, here we go again............... That's the way it is. Get over it.

No thanks, I want to moan at teachers a bit longer.
Finished the working day at 3, mid term breaks, great christmas holidays, holy days off. Can come in hungover and tell the kids to read page 53 while they read a newspaper.
There's no denying it's a handy job, that pays extremely well for what it is :pac:

guest2014 · 31-07-2014 5:59pm

They drown puppies and make these.
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Lia_lia · 31-07-2014 6:00pm

Any teacher I know seems to be gone on holidays for the summer. Lucky them!

daingeanrob · 31-07-2014 6:02pm

as a man married to a teacher i can tell you what she does, my laundry and making my dinner.

kingtut · 31-07-2014 6:37pm

They do the same thing they do during term time .... Nothing

vamos! · 31-07-2014 10:56pm

-Early June: thrown 22 summer tests in bin. Can't correct them or fill in reports- it's summer! Race out of carpark in Jag. Leave clasroom for the cleaners to clean and the secretaries can fill in the reports.
-Watch the butler polish the vintage car collection (his work is shabby during term)
-June holiday: the villa in South of France
-July holiday: pop home to annoy hard-working friends by inviting them to dine at L'Ecrivan in the early evening. Do some shopping in London and New York. Collection of cardigans far superior to Brown Thomas.
-August holiday: Italy usually. Head back to school in early September* refreshed and ready to battle it out until Morocco during October midterm.

*Secondary teachers may actually be back in school 2nd last week in August but the meeja and Joe Duffy keep that one quiet.

vicwatson · 31-07-2014 11:01pm

Whine about not getting paid this week thanks to boi feck up?

evolving_doors · 31-07-2014 11:47pm

For 3 months I gaze out the window thinking about a particularly difficult class I had 2013-2014 and I wonder about 2014-2015 and I say...

How can I reeech these keeeds, How can I reeech these keeeds, How can I reeech these keeeds, How can I reeech these keeeds ,How can I reeech these keeeds.. is what I say ...

Then I need to take a few more sips of my mojito just to kill the sound of Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise playing over and over in my head...

I'm also confused because Coolio uses the corrupted version of Gangster to imply rebellion and sub culture, but yet he was conscientious and educated enough to put the apostrophe to denote possession. Maybe the message is that there is hope for theese keeeds...

Yess I can reeech them , I can do eeeet..

This is called teacher reflection folks...

just doing my job.

vicwatson · 01-08-2014 12:07am

Go back to school

LizT · 01-08-2014 12:11am

Speaking personally, fcuk all :P

Jebus Diced · 01-08-2014 12:25am

They P A R T Y for a few months and then moan about pay/conditions when there back

Macavity. · 01-08-2014 1:29am

In some European countries people aspire to be teachers like someone aspires to be a doctor. In my experience, over here it would seem a huge percentage of our teachers did poorly in Arts degrees and then decided to teach (genuinely not dissing Arts), not trying to be a dick to teachers, this is just something I have noticed.

Adamantium · 01-08-2014 1:38am

Armelodie wrote: »

For 3 months I gaze out the window thinking about a particularly difficult class I had 2013-2014 and I wonder about 2014-2015 and I say...

How can I reeech these keeeds, How can I reeech these keeeds, How can I reeech these keeeds, How can I reeech these keeeds ,How can I reeech these keeeds.. is what I say ...

Then I need to take a few more sips of my mojito just to kill the sound of Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise playing over and over in my head...

I'm also confused because Coolio uses the corrupted version of Gangster to imply rebellion and sub culture, but yet he was conscientious and educated enough to put the apostrophe to denote possession. Maybe the message is that there is hope for theese keeeds...

Yess I can reeech them , I can do eeeet..

This is called teacher reflection folks...

just doing my job.

Oooh, an urgent plea from Edward James Olmos. ... "Free sample of fabric softener"...woo hoo!

Louthdrog · 01-08-2014 1:52am

Us in the uk system only get six weeks holidays..........it's a disgrace!!

What do teachers do when schools are off?

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