I don't like teachers

[TW]Fox;12403741 said:
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MIET (ie working towards CEng - 2 years in and probably 18 months to 2 years to go)

Do you design things or fix them?
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Both.

Hopefully I've now satisfied you that my job allows me to hold the opinions expressed in the original post.
I should have mentioned that my mum is a teacher, and therefore I owe everything I was provided with as a child to a teacher.
 
GeX said:
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?
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LOL exactly. my family get totally wound up by my mums work rate. I get sick of all this dissing of teachers. their job is 5x harder than yours. Go out for a certain few hours then go home early/mid evening and watch television all night.

Just think at the same time there are thousands of teachers who only get 1 free hour a night doing work at home. I can understand them rather go home at 3.30 and do work at home than stay at the grotty school which is under funded by the damn robbers that are the labour party.

Even if they do get paid over the holidays they only get 25k per anum pre-tax if their lucky. just be gratefull some of you guys jobs, which lets face it, isn't as vital as their gets paid more.
 
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"I'm pretty sure they do."
We get paid so we don't have a month without pay but it's taken out the hours we work the rest of the year. They work out the hours we work a year then average it out per month. We get a few weeks paid holiday then the rest are unpaid. I lose over 4k a year because I have to take all those forced holidays. Not that I am complaining as I prefer time off over extra cash.



"Do you design things or fix them?"
Technicians in schools often do both, I know I do.
 
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.

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.
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lozzick said:
LOL exactly. my family get totally wound up by my mums work rate. I get sick of all this dissing of teachers. their job is 5x harder than yours. Go out for a certain few hours then go home early/mid evening and watch television all night.

Just think at the same time there are thousands of teachers who only get 1 free hour a night doing work at home. I can understand them rather go home at 3.30 and do work at home than stay at the grotty school which is under funded by the damn robbers that are the labour party.

Even if they do get paid over the holidays they only get 25k if their lucky. just be gratefull some of you guys jobs, which lets face it, isn't as vital as their gets paid more.
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Well as a trainee primary school teacher I have come in contact woth people with these different points of view. Some people see teaching as being easy it isn't. My last placement wasn't good. I was up at 6am going to bed at 2am every night for 5 weeks. That's working from 8 til 6. Then coming home and working 7.30 - 2.00. That's tough in anybodies eyes. When you actually get a job its a lot of work as well but hey thats what you sign up for.
 
Teachers get a lot more stick than their "holidays" make up for.

For a start every lesson has to be planned, including what they're going to do and how to follow on later keeping with the curriculum. Also with this they have to set and mark homework, attend various staff and parent meetings, in some cases manage yeargroups/subjects. No way can any teacher do all that 9-3.30 and teach their classes. Most of them take their work home and continue planning/marking there.

Be happy that you're an engineer whilst they're looking after your kids for 6 hours of the day.
 
I have noticed some teachers pull out their condecending attitudes. In my line of work (banking) I have had to deal with some in financial difficulty and had that same "I'm a teacher, you don't tell me as I know best" attitude. Then again, the vast majority are fine and normal people who work damn hard.

I have a couple of mates who are teachers. One is a psychology teacher and quite how he is teaching I do not know. Took 3 years to do 'A' levels, with only very average grades, managed a 2:2 from Teesside Uni and is hardly the sharpest tool in the box. Yet as head of psychology, he's raking in over £32k - I see teachers doing a lot of work, then again, I do a shed load of work for less money, less holiday and a poorer retirement as I'm in the private sector. Teachers do not have it THAT bad!(other than working with kids!!!)
 
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Teachers made me realise that numbers count for everything.

I.E. A class room of pupils can easily bring a teacher to the point where they just give up. :p


This experience will come in handy when I begin my revolution against the authorities of the World.
 
Moses99p said "Urmmm, I thought teachers earned a salary, x amount per annum, so they do earn money over the holidays :\."
The simplified version is you work 39 weeks work at £xx per hour. 4 weeks of paid holidays so 43 total working weeks. You then divide that wage by 12 so you get the same every month.

So you have 9 weeks unpaid per year and your holidays cost more.
 
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I think you are missing the point. Its called respect. If your mum is a teacher you should know this. They don't want you calling them by their first name in front of the children.
 
How can teachers do this when the majority of them have never been outside the academic environment?
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Thats a load of ****, everyone, well, most people, have a social life.
If you buried your head in books instead of socilising then you're a damn fool and shouldn't be working with kids.

I've never encountered a teacher who objected to me using their first name either.
Late secondary school we did, and college and uni, you wouldn't use anything else. I didn't know some of my lecturers second names if i'm quite honest.
 
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