Reply to: School teachers are ******* useless

[NotAllThere]

I must be regaining my grip... I'll just nip off to a permie meeting so I can start losing it again.

[oracleslave]

Sane comment.

Surprising from someone that's NotAllThere

[expat]

Teaching is decent pay compared to the national average - end up with about £30K if you don't push for team-leader/management points. Not high compared to other professional careers though, although I guess £30K for a software developer ain't that bad outside the south-east, if you're still quite young.

That's reasonable enough. Most young professionals have little to spend on things other than the essentials. It comes as a shock to many young people, who thought that a degree and a useful professional job would get you into the middle class and have you able to do things like buy a new car, etc.

[d000hg]

No money in teaching you have to work at 8am to 7pm with little to spend other things other than the essentials.

Teaching is decent pay compared to the national average - end up with about £30K if you don't push for team-leader/management points. Not high compared to other professional careers though, although I guess £30K for a software developer ain't that bad outside the south-east, if you're still quite young.

[ratewhore]

The Daily Mash has a view on this here. A few choice snippets:

Thousands of schools remained shut despite improving weather conditions, leaving millions of parents standing in the freezing cold at the top of a slight incline, wishing they were dead.

and, a quote from a teacher:

...much better then being stabbed in the bollock with a compass by some 12 year-old tulip.

Gotta love the mash...

[Recruitment Agent]

Get your wife to take the afternoon Home Economics class (or Domestic Engineering or whatever it is called).

She can get the kids to make different courses, put them in containers, and you'll get dinner earlier.

I think you are on to something there

[Unicorn]

I dont get my dinner till 8pm and that is crap

Get your wife to take the afternoon Home Economics class (or Domestic Engineering or whatever it is called).

She can get the kids to make different courses, put them in containers, and you'll get dinner earlier.

[Recruitment Agent]

There it is from the horse's mouth: no dinner till 8 Not that I usually believe anything an agent says

But as I always endear myself to permies by saying about contracting, if you think it's so good why aren't you doing it?

No money in teaching you have to work at 8am to 7pm with little to spend other things other than the essentials.

[cailin maith]

Im ok im working the European market where the pay rates are not affected by the CC im a traditional husband I bring home the money she cooks and cleans

and works!!!

[Recruitment Agent]

Maybe you should cook for her since you have so little to do right now?

That's our arrangement... if one of us is not working they become house-wife/husband, otherwise we roughly split it depending on how busy we both are (although I admit I am not great keeping my end of the bargain)

Im ok im working the European market where the pay rates are not affected by the CC im a traditional husband I bring home the money she cooks and cleans

[ratewhore]

I couldn't teach a bunch of little bastards, I know that much already.

And fwiw, I blame the Health and Safety Nazis for closing the schools. And I agree that it was probably good for the kids to have a day off in the snow. I know my 3 had a whale of a time playing out with their friends and with their mum.

So I'm not moaning...

[expat]

My Wife is a teacher she does enjoy the 12 weeks off a year and works the 8 till 3.30 but it doesnt stop there she has to come home and do planning and other crap labour Education Education Education forms she has to fill out to satisfy the in touch government. I dont get my dinner till 8pm and that is crap

There it is from the horse's mouth: no dinner till 8 Not that I usually believe anything an agent says

But as I always endear myself to permies by saying about contracting, if you think it's so good why aren't you doing it?

[d000hg]

My Wife is a teacher she does enjoy the 12 weeks off a year and works the 8 till 3.30 but it doesnt stop there she has to come home and do planning and other crap labour Education Education Education forms she has to fill out to satisfy the in touch government. I dont get my dinner till 8pm and that is crap

Maybe you should cook for her since you have so little to do right now?

That's our arrangement... if one of us is not working they become house-wife/husband, otherwise we roughly split it depending on how busy we both are (although I admit I am not great keeping my end of the bargain)

[Recruitment Agent]

I have to work. They should have to work.

Teachers are notoriously work shy. Six weeks off in the summer, hours of 8.30-3.00, apples everyday and presents from the kids every end of term.

GET OUT OF BED YOU WORK SHY LAYABOUTS!

My Wife is a teacher she does enjoy the 12 weeks off a year and works the 8 till 3.30 but it doesnt stop there she has to come home and do planning and other crap labour Education Education Education forms she has to fill out to satisfy the in touch government. I dont get my dinner till 8pm and that is crap

[expat]

Funny how people just read the headline...

I had interactions with social services at one time, when they intervened in my wife's brother's family, as he was beating on his kids. I found them to be caring people, trying to do a good job in difficult circumstances. But generally not very bright, not good at doing things properly, and not much initiative. I'd imagine that it's hard to attract high quality staff when their so much stigma attached and the wages are so lousy.

It's the SS system that stinks - not the workers themselves.

Sane comment.