I take it all back - teachers are angels and deserve their 12 weeks off, and more besides. I know I have had a slight turnaround on my previous views, but with good reason. Last week I graciously offered my services as Classroom Assistant in my 5 year old's class, thinking it would be a pleasant change from my normal daily grind - oh, how wrong could I be!
If I thought it was hard enough coping with one five year old, I was little prepared for a whole class of them, all talking and asking me questions and wanting my attention and being irritating - all at once. The apparently 12 year old teacher just breezed through it all, while I was left wondering at what point I thought being a primary school teacher was comparable with being a food-taster for Marks and Spencers. The idea of getting paid for something so easy, such fun! But now I know better, and I am a big enough person to admit when I am wrong (just ask my partner - actually, don't). I know when my opinions are misguided or slightly off balance. And so I take it all back. They deserve their holidays and their training days - they deserve them all. They are saints, they really are. And I expect the valium helps too.....
Monday 30 November 2009
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Enough Already
That’s it! I’ve had enough, I’m downing tools and going on strike. Why? Well why not?
Ok, if you want a reason, I’ll give you a reason.
It’s the teachers; well perhaps not necessarily the teachers themselves as such, but the unions, the government or whoever the bloody hell decided that 12 weeks paid holiday is just not enough. I know I’m ranting and not being my usual clear and concise self, but I’m just so angry. I can hardly string my pumpkin lights up, let alone a sentence.
Oh those poor overworked and undervalued teachers. Six week summer holidays are not enough, give them another week off to recover from the last six weeks. Oh, but hang on, we need to train them so they’ll able to teach our offspring even better. Give them another day off and add it on to the half-term holiday – no-one will notice. Oh and while we’re at it, give them another few weeks off in December and a day or two in January – we’ll call it the Christmas holiday – we’ll all be too busy watching telly and shopping and cooking and eating and looking after our kids to catch on. Tag another day on for good measure, they can call it a special team-building/ training/ educational/ new government initiative. We’re bound to swallow it. What? What’s that I hear them say? You want us have our staff parties during the holidays? Stop it right now. How dare you imply that we’re onto a good thing, that we’re taking the proverbial? Don’t we deserve a little bit of time off? To recharge our batteries so we can give our ‘all’, to your precious darlings? Surely you don’t begrudge us that? Too bloody right, I do.
Enough’s enough, I say. Parents unite, I urge you all. It’s time to say no. Let them have their 12 week holidays if they must, but that’s all they’re getting, that is more than enough. I, for one am exhausted with it all. I think I’ll go on strike for a day, just so I can put my feet up. Perhaps I’ll sit by the computer and pretend to look busy while I google rug clearance sales in the Outer Hebrides? Or perhaps I’ll just have a training day – now that does sound like a plan …..
Ok, if you want a reason, I’ll give you a reason.
It’s the teachers; well perhaps not necessarily the teachers themselves as such, but the unions, the government or whoever the bloody hell decided that 12 weeks paid holiday is just not enough. I know I’m ranting and not being my usual clear and concise self, but I’m just so angry. I can hardly string my pumpkin lights up, let alone a sentence.
Oh those poor overworked and undervalued teachers. Six week summer holidays are not enough, give them another week off to recover from the last six weeks. Oh, but hang on, we need to train them so they’ll able to teach our offspring even better. Give them another day off and add it on to the half-term holiday – no-one will notice. Oh and while we’re at it, give them another few weeks off in December and a day or two in January – we’ll call it the Christmas holiday – we’ll all be too busy watching telly and shopping and cooking and eating and looking after our kids to catch on. Tag another day on for good measure, they can call it a special team-building/ training/ educational/ new government initiative. We’re bound to swallow it. What? What’s that I hear them say? You want us have our staff parties during the holidays? Stop it right now. How dare you imply that we’re onto a good thing, that we’re taking the proverbial? Don’t we deserve a little bit of time off? To recharge our batteries so we can give our ‘all’, to your precious darlings? Surely you don’t begrudge us that? Too bloody right, I do.
Enough’s enough, I say. Parents unite, I urge you all. It’s time to say no. Let them have their 12 week holidays if they must, but that’s all they’re getting, that is more than enough. I, for one am exhausted with it all. I think I’ll go on strike for a day, just so I can put my feet up. Perhaps I’ll sit by the computer and pretend to look busy while I google rug clearance sales in the Outer Hebrides? Or perhaps I’ll just have a training day – now that does sound like a plan …..
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