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The teachers strike

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    #32
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    kilkern5 wrote: »
    I work in the education sector and silently laugh to myself when they start talking about how difficult and stressful the job is.

    Please explain what you mean by "work in the education sector"
    kilkern5 wrote: »
    Every year at P/T meetings when they have to stay late they are in the staff room the next day "exhausted" because they did not get home till after 5pm. 5PM!!!!!

    Most of my teachers don't leave until 5 on normal days. They come in at 8 for morning classes etc. and leave after 5 after supervising detention, homework club (not a happy place btw), coaching et al. I know a few teachers who are in until 7 every Monday teaching adults, that's right teaching the parents of first years to help their kids. 8-5 or 8-7 isn't exactly great.

    Parent teacher meetings start at 4:30 in my school and go on until 7pm, 6 days a year not once a year.
    kilkern5 wrote: »
    We have just had 2 weeks off at Easter and 4 weeks later my school is off again for a full week for mid term, one teacher in the yard said to me how she cant believe its still a whole week to go before the next break. HONESTLY! Then its only 7 weeks till the summer break when there is 9 weeks off!!!!
    The first thing to be sorted at the first staff meeting every September is how to work the 183 classroom days to maximise the holidays around bank holidays.

    Teachers correct tests, copies etc. during holidays, you do know that? I've had maybe 20 or 30 A4 pages corrected over the Easter holidays for English. That's one of the 200 or so classes they teach. Many teachers also come in during the February mid term and Easter holidays to teach. Even in Junior Cert year I was in school for 5 or 6 school days out of the 10 we were off for. Maths, science experiment catch up etc.
    kilkern5 wrote: »
    I love my job. I work with fantastic teachers, principals and SNAs but seriously........they need to have a reality check!!!!
    Getting paid to do yard duty!!!
    Getting paid to hold various posts!!!
    Truly mad stuff going on!!

    I think you need a reality check. Yard duty in my school involves breaking up at least 2 fights every day, that's 2 fights in 10 minutes. This doesn't stop in yard duty. Truly mad stuff going on indeed.

    I'm in 5th year and I like most of my teachers but dear god I would not like to have their job.


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    #33
    randylonghorn
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 29,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Please don't resurrect zombie threads.


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    #34
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,139 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    The troll apparently working 'in the education sector' doesn't know the school year starts in August and has done for years.
    Die thread of the zombie folk!

    Bah, randy beat me to it.


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    #35
    randylonghorn
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 29,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    spurious wrote: »
    The troll apparently working 'in the education sector' doesn't know the school year starts in August and has done for years.
    Die thread of the zombie folk!

    Bah, randy beat me to it.
    ^_^


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