Do you think teachers want to return back to school?

Or would they want to work from home instead especially during this second wave?

Does it make sense to say to someone who is a teacher 'im sorry you're still having to go back to school but just stay safe'.

Any better way to put it?

Thanks!

I'm a teacher and I would much rather be at school than at home

If they have any doubts about teaching there’s a letter they can give to their head teacher and a place they can go after submitting that letter. It’s called “The Job Centre”. There they will be made to find work without any breaks or holidays and proper work for at least 50 weeks of the year not with 15 weeks paid holiday.
(Oh btw and they might not get any money when they go to the Job centre...having quit their teaching job but there will certainly be a huge “Welcome to the real world of work” )

They ought to try it. Working for a living that is.

It varies. Some teachers may resent it. Others will embrace it.

so you don't think teaching is proper work? and teachers don't work for a living?

They get a lot of holidays and still moan. There are good teachers who appreciate what they have got and they deserve full respect and want all their pupils to do well.

Then there’s the TAs many of whom are bone idle. Half the lesson spent out of class to photocopy one page from a text book, sitting at the back of class filling their nails, texting etc. Interrupting the teacher when he or she’s speaking to the class.

They get a lot of holidays and still moan. There are good teachers who appreciate what they have got and they deserve full respect and want all their pupils to do well.

Then there’s the TAs many of whom are bone idle. Half the lesson spent out of class to photocopy one page from a text book, sitting at the back of class filling their nails, texting etc. Interrupting the teacher when he or she’s speaking to the class.

As a teacher, my feelings are mixed on this. I think that schools not returning is a terrible idea - children need to be receiving an education and while my school's online provision was excellent, the same can't be said for every school sadly and many students lack computers/internet access exacerbating the gap between rich and poor students. I also think that if we're ever going to get the country going again, we have to start with schools. Until you get students back in school, parents will struggle to work and the economy won't get going. However, I do think more safety provisions will need to be put in place. A large number of schools have seen at least one bubble self-isolate as a result of a positive test so it's clear that current safety procedures aren't stringent enough. I'm not saying that we want a risk-free environment (no such thing exists), but that risk needs to be better managed. I'll be returning to work on Monday after half term. Am I nervous? Yeah I am, but equally it's important that my students receive the best education I can give them and so I recognise for that to happen, I have to be teaching in school. What I would say to students reading this thread is cut your teachers some slack here. The guidance changes all the time and we're going well beyond what many professions are expected to do to keep going. We're shattered essentially. Students complying with the guidance without arguing and a thank you to your teachers makes all the difference and just brightens our day. We get some of you may be scared, but equally know that we're nervous too, scared for our own families' safety, but we're putting that aside to give you the education you deserve.

Teach a fulltime timetable while also marking, doing lesson prep, parents evening, training, meetings, dealing with pastoral issues, making calls home etc. etc. Do that and then tell me we don't deserve the holidays we get! Wait, the holidays that aren't actually holidays because we're doing all of the above, minus the actual teaching.

Very well said!
Ofcourse it must be scary to return especially as we are now in the second wave of Covid!
And it must be scary knowing that most places are shutdown yet your work place is open, if only all students had laptops etc at home and that way teaching could be done at home like how most universities have moved onto remote learning!

That way children are getting their education and teachers are able to carry on with the job they enjoy without having to worry about safety and at the same time knowing their students are learning!
But sadly that's not possible for all schools, as not all children have access to such devices!

I really do admire teachers during this time! And as long as you stay safe and your school have provisions in place you should be okay.

Take care!

They get a lot of holidays and still moan. There are good teachers who appreciate what they have got and they deserve full respect and want all their pupils to do well.

Then there’s the TAs many of whom are bone idle. Half the lesson spent out of class to photocopy one page from a text book, sitting at the back of class filling their nails, texting etc. Interrupting the teacher when he or she’s speaking to the class.

I don't think it's fair to discredit anybody's job, particularly one you have never worked. Every job is a means to provide, and there are very few people who don't work hard or work with what they've got to at least make ends meet. Likewise, regardless of your opinion on workers such as TAs, it's completely unfair to categorise a whole job as not being proper, or being filled with 'bone idle' workers.

I am certain there are good TAs even in the school I was at there were one or two polite dedicated TAs. But if was the other ones that were not so easy.
I remember my lever arch file spilled all over the corridor between lessons, my notes and paper work everywhere. The corridor was crowded. A TA came along and just walked over my papers as it was easier doing that than walking around the obstruction. It was actually a polite pupil who helped me pick the papers up.

Another day I saw a TAs bizarre scenic route between lessons. When a lesson ends TAs need to move on to their next class. On this day the next class was about 100 metres away straight down a corridor across a yard down some steps and into another building and into the class. But the route they took was far from that simple. It involved going in completely the wrong direction. Up to the top floor of the first building for a look out the window. Then a lengthy visit to the WC then another look out the window by then the next period had started. They then went back down and proceeded to walk around the perimeter of the grounds reaching their lesson 15 minutes late!

Then there were the inset days. Or coffee days as they might as well be called. Great stuff. The whispering and s******ing. Came back from break to staff room find my jacket crumpled on top of the waste bin as it was on the back of someone’s usual seat.

The older teachers are great and get along with the pupils well getting good results with lots of encouragement . They were the ones who got to school early and last to finish. You could have a good intelligent chat with them. Sadly most are nearing retirement age.