What do teachers do when schools are off?

ThunbergsAreGo · 01-08-2014 02:20PM

LeinsterDub wrote: »

How much are those flights around Halloween, Christmas ,Easter , Mid terms ? Surely a bargain or 2 to be pick up then?

As someone who goes out with a teacher, no there is not! its an awful drawback of the job

osarusan · 01-08-2014 02:25PM

pickarooney wrote: »

Temporary workers not getting paid when they're not working? This too, is not abnormal I would have thought.

Not abnormal at all, but the posters blabbering on and on about the holidays teachers get don't seem to pay much attention to this rather important point.

Irishcrx · 01-08-2014 02:25PM

Don't see what all the fuss is about , they get paid for what they work just split over the year, makes sense.

Is a tough job for the most part I reckon , not a chance in hell I'd be dealing with mouthy kids/teenagers day in day out I'd end up living in a cave somewhere suffering with multiple personality disorder spending my days hugging myself muttering 'Hodor' 'Hodor' from the stress of it all.

...or jail for killing one the ****ers first.

c_man · 01-08-2014 02:26PM

RWCNT wrote: »

Better question - Why don't all these people who are bitter at teachers just become teachers if it's such an easy gig?

Great argument. Must use it whenever somebody gives out about bankers, politicians, unemployed... Israeli settler, Gazan native... bin-man looking for Christmas tips. "Well why don't you just become one?"

marie12 · 01-08-2014 02:34PM

LeinsterDub wrote: »

How much are those flights around Halloween, Christmas ,Easter , Mid terms ? Surely a bargain or 2 to be pick up then?

They are still dearer than during term. Explains why so many families go on holiday during school year. We do have a lot of holidays but I'm definitely not doing it for that reason. There's no way I could. I love what I do. I also love that 12o clock bell in late june ha

pickarooney · 01-08-2014 02:41PM

People who work and have kids are generally limited to a set couple of weeks in the summer when they can go on holidays, weeks they have to scramble to book before their colleagues do. It's fairly standard and, unsurprisingly the reason why flights and accommodation are dearer in summer.

LeinsterDub · 01-08-2014 02:50PM

marie12 wrote: »

They are still dearer than during term. Explains why so many families go on holiday during school year. We do have a lot of holidays but I'm definitely not doing it for that reason. There's no way I could. I love what I do. I also love that 12o clock bell in late june ha

Clearly they are going to be dearer but unlike summer not everyone heads on during the middle 2 weeks in October or whenever it is.

padraig.od · 01-08-2014 02:52PM

**** the 6th years who just finished up.

Hotfail.com · 01-08-2014 02:53PM

padraig.od wrote: »

**** the 6th years who just finished up.

Unfortunately not.

Cantremember · 01-08-2014 02:53PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Do you add a steel cap toe to the bollox each time you say it?

Admirable, Admiral, admirable.

Cantremember · 01-08-2014 02:55PM

Primary teachers work 183 days in the year? Second level 167? There's a whole lot of preparation going on....

Micky Dolenz · 01-08-2014 02:58PM

I don't get the teacher hating, It's a crappy job that is underpaid. More power to them. I wouldn't be stepping up to do it.

pickarooney · 01-08-2014 03:14PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I don't get the teacher hating, It's a crappy job that is underpaid. More power to them. I wouldn't be stepping up to do it.

That's probably because you have a great job that is overpaid.

Micky Dolenz · 01-08-2014 03:23PM

pickarooney wrote: »

That's probably because you have a great job that is overpaid.

This may or may not be true, although my bank did call me recently to ask if I would open another account as my normal one was full.

Insect Overlord · 01-08-2014 03:27PM

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?

What's your opinion, OP? I notice you've said nothing at all since starting this thread.

Sir Arthur Daley · 01-08-2014 03:30PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I don't get the teacher hating, It's a crappy job that is underpaid. More power to them. I wouldn't be stepping up to do it.

What is so crappy about teaching, are you referring to secondary school teachers?

Micky Dolenz · 01-08-2014 03:34PM

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

What is so crappy about teaching, are you referring to secondary school teachers?

Anything to do with children or teenagers. Managing them on a daily basis would be crappy to me.

LeinsterDub · 01-08-2014 04:15PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Anything to do with children or teenagers. Managing them on a daily basis would be crappy to me.

Crappier that http://www.thameswater.co.uk/help-and-advice/13911.htm ?

IrishEyes19 · 02-08-2014 02:00AM

it's an amazement that half of the keyboard warriors on here aren't teachers considering they think its such a cushy job. :rolleyes:

complain all you want, but I've more respect for someone who has actually worked the job, and can pin point the issues rather than the same boring people going on about something they have never worked as.

IrishEyes19 · 02-08-2014 02:05AM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I don't get the teacher hating, It's a crappy job that is underpaid. More power to them. I wouldn't be stepping up to do it.

I worked really hard in college to qualify as a teacher and the dip year is intensive. a job is only crappy if you hate it. I love teaching, its tough, working to deadlines, correcting and parents :rolleyes: but being in the classroom is where I want to be. I know its after hours but calling it a crappy job is offensive. not everyone can teach.

oh and Im not permanent so these paid holidays don't exist in my world right now. :rolleyes:

Noccy_Mondy · 02-08-2014 03:06AM

Ahh yes another teaching bashing thread. This one was overdue :rolleyes:

evolving_doors · 13-08-2014 07:18PM

An File wrote: »

What's your opinion, OP? I notice you've said nothing at all since starting this thread.

Ah who cares it's just the quarterly teacher bashing thread. Lets just get back to the insults....

carry on class:pac::pac::pac::pac:

Micky Dolenz · 13-08-2014 07:26PM

IrishEyes19 wrote: »

I worked really hard in college to qualify as a teacher and the dip year is intensive. a job is only crappy if you hate it. I love teaching, its tough, working to deadlines, correcting and parents :rolleyes: but being in the classroom is where I want to be. I know its after hours but calling it a crappy job is offensive. not everyone can teach.

oh and Im not permanent so these paid holidays don't exist in my world right now. :rolleyes:

Whether or not you find it offensive is irrelevant to me.

I'd hope you don't throw your eyes up to heaven as much when you are in class. Not a good thing to be teaching.

Let me clarify for you.
In my opinion, it's a crappy job for me. Just like tonnes of other jobs that would be crappy for me. I'm not saying it's unimportant, far from it. I would just hate to do it.

Just because I don't want to be a member of AGS or the ambulance service, another crappy jobs imo, doesn't mean it's not the perfect job for someone else I.E someone who doesn't think it's crappy and would like to do it.

The Rabbit · 13-08-2014 07:35PM

If my teacher friends are anything to go by, they drink wine every day and get fat.

anncoates · 13-08-2014 07:43PM

You'd think the summer holidays were expressly dreamt up as a doss break to benefit teachers rather being the summer holidays for the schools in which they teach.

Kiwi in IE · 13-08-2014 07:52PM

People moaning about teachers should have spent more time listening to their teachers, and then they might have a better job and perhaps not feel so much envy toward teachers!

catallus · 13-08-2014 08:31PM

The Rabbit wrote: »

If my teacher friends are anything to go by, they drink wine every day and get fat.

I want to hear more about this.

The Rabbit · 13-08-2014 08:39PM

catallus wrote: »

I want to hear more about this.

I don't really know what to tell you.

They basically become alcoholic for the summer, drink bottles and bottles of wine (what seems like) constantly and become lazy, sofa bound recluses gorging on take-aways and who'll only venture outside if it's to a pub.

Fair play to them if that's what they want to do but seriously, it seems like such a huge waste of three months off.

catallus · 13-08-2014 08:40PM

Christ.

I'd kill for a job like that.

forgotten password · 13-08-2014 08:45PM

i look at it very much like that, you take the momentum of the school into the summer,

What do teachers do when schools are off?

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