I don't like teachers

big_white_dog84

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I've developed a bit of a dislike of teachers after a few incidents I've had with them recently. I'm an engineer and I've done a bit of work in and around various schools over the last few months. This has given me my first contact with teachers since leaving school 8 years ago. (EDIT - for clarity this contact has been on a one to one basis when there have been no children around.)

I noticed very quickly that they speak to people in a very different way to the rest of society. They insisted on speaking to me like I was a child, even to the point that they introdiced themselves as 'Mr', 'Mrs', 'Miss' etc rather than their first names. I don't even call my Managing Director 'Mr MD' so there was no way I was calling them anything other than their real names, which they didn't seem to like at all.

I also don't understand why they get a 9-3.30 working day (and many of them DO work these hours - I've seen the cars driving away) and about three times as many holidays as anyone else.

On top of this it's about as secure a job as you could get - a teacher getting sacked is so rare that it makes the press. Yet from everyone's experience as a child we all know that there are so so many terrible teachers out there. I think that a main purpose of an education is to prepare children for life in the real world. How can teachers do this when the majority of them have never been outside the academic environment?

I think my dislike comes partly from the attitude they seem to develop and partly from jealousy about their cushy working lives.

Does anyone else share similar feelings? Can any teachers tell me why I'm wrong?
 
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I dont like people who call themselves engineers when they are just technicians, what is it you do?

Ive had so many fantaqstic teachers in high school, too many to name. Guess I was one of the lucky ones.
 
I hated my last teacher at college. Had my parents in loads saying I wasn't working etc and I knew I was. He was awful, really bad. He ended up getting sacked but he actually made me feel really like dirt. The way he spoke etc.
No-one in the class liked him (thus the reason why chairs were thrown at him).
 
i'm still at school, i get on really well with some of the teachers, one of the younger teachers especially as he poured whiskey into me all night when i met him at the pub lol :D
 
I'm very surprised if they only work 9-3.30. that would suggest their terrible teachers and wouldn't be surprised if they were morons. Yes they do get long holidays but my mum usually works 8am-6pm and she takes about 5 days at the end of her summer hols or any holiday infact, to make sure shes all set for the next term.

I'd maybe talk to the headteacher about their low work rate.
 
slambo69 said:
I dont like people who call themselves engineers when they are just technicians, what is it you do?
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I work on the 11kV and 33kV electricity networks. I design and deliver new connections at these voltages and deviations of our apparatus to allow new developments to take place. I have a MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. I am not a technician.
 
"and about three times as many holidays as anyone else."
They don't get paid for all those holidays plus they are force to take holydays when trips cost the most.

I do agree a lot of teachers have an attitude problem and don't know how easy they have it compared to so called real jobs. You can often tell which teachers have had jobs outside education and which ones have only been teachers. For sure teachers have it easy more so compared to other school staff.
 
-Exodus- said:
i'm still at school, i get on really well with some of the teachers, one of the younger teachers especially as he poured whiskey into me all night when i met him at the pub lol :D
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WE all know you've been giving him "favors" for grades Exo ;)
 
slambo69 said:
I dont like people who call themselves engineers when they are just technicians, what is it you do?
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i hate the wives of people that claim their husband is an engineer.

"my husbands an engineer you know and even he couldnt do it" seriously how hard is it to put a curtain track up (i work in furnishings)
 
Pottsey said:
"and about three times as many holidays as anyone else."
They don't get paid for all those holidays plus they are force to take holydays when trips cost the most.
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I'm pretty sure they do. My friend remarked to me yesterday that his mum (a teacher) wasn't getting paid this summer because she was starting a new role, so her last contract expired last term, and her new one starts this coming term.
 
you're an engineer, be happy that you get paid more than them and you don't have to deal with kids all day.

also mention those that can't teach, always goes down well.

KaHn
 
my friends parents are teachers, as are the parents of another friend of mine, one of my friends is a teacher too.

if you really think they only work 9:00 - 3:30 then you're an idiot. I wonder if thats why they spoke to you like a child, because you put that accross?
 
Teachers are human too you know, and like humans, some are knob heads some are sound people. :)
 
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