Are school teachers lazy?

What full time job is there where you get 14 weeks paid holiday each year in addition to umpteen inset days (coffee days) and only need to work from 9am to 3:30pm? Ah yes teaching! Effectively it’s a part time job with full time pay that hard working tax payers are paying for, but not getting a lot in return.

Children have lost months and months of education due to Covid yet the extravagant long holidays are protected. 7 weeks off this summer and it seems head teachers decide when the schools go back, they might just as well return when the teachers feel like it which would probably be never. It’s now September and they still have another week off! Teaching assistants also need to do fat more to help teachers and pupils.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2816819/Teachers-lazy-turn-late-t-bothered-set-homework-says-superhead-sent-failing-school.html

Sorry if this sounds like a rant but kids are in desperate need of education. They have almost lost a year. Now we are an independent stand alone nation free from Europe, we need our children to be highly educated and ready to fulfil their meaningful role in society or higher education. We don’t want to become a land of poorly educated youngsters because our nation will become a laughing stock.

Holidays should be reduced to max of:
4 weeks in summer.
2 weeks at Christmas
1 week at Easter
And 3 half term weeks.
Inset days should either be scrapped or done during holiday time.

Do teachers need to work harder?h

What full time job is there where you get 14 weeks paid holiday each year in addition to umpteen inset days (coffee days) and only need to work from 9am to 3:30pm? Ah yes teaching! Effectively it’s a part time job with full time pay that hard working tax payers are paying for, but not getting a lot in return.

Children have lost months and months of education due to Covid yet the extravagant long holidays are protected. 7 weeks off this summer and it seems head teachers decide when the schools go back, they might just as well return when the teachers feel like it which would probably be never. It’s now September and they still have another week off! Teaching assistants also need to do fat more to help teachers and pupils.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2816819/Teachers-lazy-turn-late-t-bothered-set-homework-says-superhead-sent-failing-school.html

Sorry if this sounds like a rant but kids are in desperate need of education. They have almost lost a year. Now we are an independent stand alone nation free from Europe, we need our children to be highly educated and ready to fulfil their meaningful role in society or higher education. We don’t want to become a land of poorly educated youngsters because our nation will become a laughing stock.

Holidays should be reduced to max of:
4 weeks in summer.
2 weeks at Christmas
1 week at Easter
And 3 half term weeks.
Inset days should either be scrapped or done during holiday time.

Do teachers need to work harder?h

Nuance isn't really your thing, is it?

I don't usually bite with your flames and trolling, but even for you this is a particularly silly, ill-informed rant. The fact that you call INSET days 'coffee days', think that a teacher's day finishes when lessons finish at 3.30pm and have referenced the Daily Fail in support of your 'argument' shows that you know precisely nothing about teaching, how a school works or any of the actual facts or practicalities you'd need to construct a serious argument, comme d'habitude.

As for the 'hard-working tax payers' bit, I thought you were on benefits, from previous posting? Bit ironic to be talking about 'hard-working tax payers', isn't it?

The annoying thing is if the government wasted a bit less money on teachers salary, there would be more left over for hard working benefit claimants like OP

Posts like this annoy me so much.

Unless you have been through teacher training/are a teacher, you're really not in a position to talk.

What full time job is there where you get 14 weeks paid holiday each year in addition to umpteen inset days (coffee days) and only need to work from 9am to 3:30pm? Ah yes teaching! Effectively it’s a part time job with full time pay that hard working tax payers are paying for, but not getting a lot in return.

Children have lost months and months of education due to Covid yet the extravagant long holidays are protected. 7 weeks off this summer and it seems head teachers decide when the schools go back, they might just as well return when the teachers feel like it which would probably be never. It’s now September and they still have another week off! Teaching assistants also need to do fat more to help teachers and pupils.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2816819/Teachers-lazy-turn-late-t-bothered-set-homework-says-superhead-sent-failing-school.html

Sorry if this sounds like a rant but kids are in desperate need of education. They have almost lost a year. Now we are an independent stand alone nation free from Europe, we need our children to be highly educated and ready to fulfil their meaningful role in society or higher education. We don’t want to become a land of poorly educated youngsters because our nation will become a laughing stock.

Holidays should be reduced to max of:
4 weeks in summer.
2 weeks at Christmas
1 week at Easter
And 3 half term weeks.
Inset days should either be scrapped or done during holiday time.

Do teachers need to work harder?h

What full time job is there where you get 14 weeks paid holiday each year in addition to umpteen inset days (coffee days) and only need to work from 9am to 3:30pm? Ah yes teaching! Effectively it’s a part time job with full time pay that hard working tax payers are paying for, but not getting a lot in return.

Children have lost months and months of education due to Covid yet the extravagant long holidays are protected. 7 weeks off this summer and it seems head teachers decide when the schools go back, they might just as well return when the teachers feel like it which would probably be never. It’s now September and they still have another week off! Teaching assistants also need to do fat more to help teachers and pupils.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2816819/Teachers-lazy-turn-late-t-bothered-set-homework-says-superhead-sent-failing-school.html

Sorry if this sounds like a rant but kids are in desperate need of education. They have almost lost a year. Now we are an independent stand alone nation free from Europe, we need our children to be highly educated and ready to fulfil their meaningful role in society or higher education. We don’t want to become a land of poorly educated youngsters because our nation will become a laughing stock.

Holidays should be reduced to max of:
4 weeks in summer.
2 weeks at Christmas
1 week at Easter
And 3 half term weeks.
Inset days should either be scrapped or done during holiday time.

Do teachers need to work harder?h

The teachers I’ve seen seem to get home the same time as the school pupils and spend most of their time in pubs and spending the entire 7 week summer holiday travelling while normal people are working their fingers to the bone earning a pittance to pay for childcare while the schools are shut and semi derelict for 7 weeks and have to pay taxes for teachers to have extravagantly long paid holidays.
Teachers should spare a thought for the parents who are going through torture during the long summer break and trying to hold down a job.