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What do teachers do when schools are off?

gigglemuch82

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

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ThunbergsAreGo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hotfail.com

padraig.od wrote: »

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

Unfortunately not.

Cantremember

fleet_admiral wrote: »

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

Admirable, Admiral, admirable.

Cantremember

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

Micky Dolenz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

evolving_doors

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

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

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

anncoates

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

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

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

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

Christ.

I'd kill for a job like that.

forgotten password

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