[Crimson Dynamo]

How do you feel about all the holidays teachers get. Should they be forced to work for the community good during the holidays that are designed for children?

[Smithy]

no? teachers work hard, it's not like they're paid during the summer holidays like most people are when they take holiday from work

[joeysteele]

No.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Smithy

no? teachers work hard, it's not like they're paid during the summer holidays like most people are when they take holiday from work

we all work hard.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

we all work hard.

So?

Not all jobs are the same. Shock horror.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

So?

Not all jobs are the same. Shock horror.

yes but i am saying should this profession ,who get huge holidays be forced to work for the community good.?

Litter picking and care for elderly

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Smithy

no? teachers work hard, it's not like they're paid during the summer holidays like most people are when they take holiday from work

I think they get an annual salary do are paid for holidays?

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

yes but i am saying should this profession ,who get huge holidays be forced to work for the community good.?

Litter picking and care for elderly

You know, when the kids go off school on these holidays the teachers workload doesn't just stop until the kids come back?

I remember in high school, the teachers were back in almost 2 whole weeks before the end of the summer break.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

You know, when the kids go off school on these holidays the teachers workload doesn't just stop until the kids come back?

I remember in high school, the teachers were back in almost 2 whole weeks before the end of the summer break.

when my lot went back after easter the first day was a bloody in service day

how does that work?

[AnnieK]

No the teachers don't but the kids do

Make them litter pick during the holidays....or send em back down the mines

[Mokka]

I don't know what it's like there

But here my kids teachers apply for unemployment benefits in the summer... I have even heard of them applying for it during the Christmas break. Plus most of them take 2 to 4 weeks holidays during the school year leaving the kids with substitutes that have no idea what is going on.

Yeah, something about how that all goes down bothers me

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

when my lot went back after easter the first day was a bloody in service day

how does that work?

Do you know what those are?

Clue: The teachers don't get those days off.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

No the teachers don't but the kids do

Make them litter pick during the holidays....or send em back down the mines

they do get far too many holiday. I mean easter and october should be cancelled. It sets a bad example for later life

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Do you know what those are?

Clue: The teachers don't get those days off.

yes but whey not have them during the easter hols - its not like the teachers need 2 weeks off at easter

[Kazanne]

I get paid in the holidays,ok I am only a TA,but still get paid as I presume teachers do.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

You know, when the kids go off school on these holidays the teachers workload doesn't just stop until the kids come back?

I remember in high school, the teachers were back in almost 2 whole weeks before the end of the summer break.

So they work 40 weeks instead of the 38 (give or take) in the academic year. That's still three months off. And they take INSET days during school time. Training should be done during their extremely long holidays.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

yes but whey not have them during the easter hols - its not like the teachers need 2 weeks off at easter

That's down to the external speakers/tutors who come in for seminars/meetings etc. They schedule when they can come into the school so by and large when this inset day takes place is out of the actual school's hands.

[Jřsh]

Ahem.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Livia

So they work 40 weeks instead of the 38 (give or take) in the academic year. That's still three months off. And they take INSET days during school time. Training should be done during their extremely long holidays.

Well, I doubt those two weeks are the only weeks outside of term time they worked. It was just an example that I recalled from my own school.

And as I said earlier a lot of the training days have external influence so isn't down to the teachers/school themselves as to when they are held.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Well, I doubt those two weeks are the only weeks outside of term time they worked. It was just an example that I recalled from my own school.

You are right,
Many work a lot of the School holidays Marsh, not just those 2 weeks.

[Livia]

My friend is a primary teacher. She works one extra week per year, and she's not alone.

[Will.]

At my school teachers are paid in holidays, they get 17 weeks holiday break - which is a lot considering some people don't even have 2 weeks, but most of the teachers work hard.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Livia

My friend is a primary teacher. She works one extra week per year, and she's not alone.

So?

All professions work differently.

Let's lynch people who work in a job which provides a different working pattern to my own.

[Jay.]

Teachers take a lot of their work home with them, producing presentations, stuff to teach, tests etc. It's far more than a 9-5 job. I know that new teachers usually don't leave the school building until gone 8 because of the amount of work to do.

They also teach a vast amount of children, not just one class. I doubt they don't do any work through week breaks etc. with the amount of essays and tests to mark etc.

I remember my teacher telling me that they are paid for the months that they are there, but the salary is spread out across the year, so that they don't go penny-less over the summer. So they are only being paid during term time, so to speak.

[empire]

teachers are over paid, some of them are lazy, arrogant, argue to much, they like to tell you the truth but don't take it well when you tell them some home truths back, at my school they where paid to much and would treat us like we where not able to learn any thing, and then there was the other ones, that expected us to know what this is in are work, they just throw a book at the table and did not help us very much,