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No but I got a text at 3.15 saying School was closing at 1.30, then they rang me just as I was leaving to pick him up.

Loved the way they waited 2 hours to actually check if I got the text.
 

I'm a teacher so would like to defend the profession a little. Sure, you get a couple of teachers who do the minimum but they tend not to last as they are torn to shreds by the kids and life becomes thoroughly hellish. Once you lose your reputation, every lesson is painful and even the most ambivalent teacher comes to their wit's end.
I enjoyy job most days but it is tiring and demanding, again like most jobs, but there is no hiding place in a classroom. When my eldest was born, i was shattered and the kids could smell it. Other new dads i knew told me that they were falling asleep at work and colleagues were helping them out. In a classroom you are on your own trying to entertain 30 people who would rather be anywhere else.
Back to the snow. 3 years ago we didn't close early and the last kid was picked up at 9pm, despite being 14 his mum said
she didn't want him to come home on his own in dangerous conditions. The teacher that stayed did not get home til midnight - no extra pay or even a thank u, just a mother who claimed she had been harassed.
Anyway. I am rambling now. If teaching was easy everyone would do it.
 
School near me sent a txt msg out this morn.

outrageous, i know it's cold like but......


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The snow wasn't bad at 7.40 am when I left for college (I go to Greenbank) but by the time I went for break at 10 it had really come down, although going through town on my way home it was pretty clear, then got thicker as I got back to mine. Been told that if it stays this bad next week, as its meant to be, then its at our discretion whether to come in or not on Wednesday, though I can see it being more settled by then
 

I'm a teacher in a secondary school in London. God, it was hard work today. You can't let the kids throw snowballs because there's always the chance that it'll escalate into a punch up or someone will lose an eye. Trying to teach them bloody Shakespeare this afternoon was like having teeth pulled. Every question was like 'Miss, will it snow tonight?', 'Miss, will there be school on Monday?'.
I'm in a private school so it's so much easier for me than for others but you feel like a proper cock, stopping kiddies enjoying the best fun that there is ( slamming snowballs into people's faces) - f*** I love snow
 
janaaa said:
I'm a teacher in a secondary school in London. God, it was hard work today. You can't let the kids throw snowballs because there's always the chance that it'll escalate into a punch up or someone will lose an eye. Trying to teach them bloody Shakespeare this afternoon was like having teeth pulled. Every question was like 'Miss, will it snow tonight?', 'Miss, will there be school on Monday?'.
I'm in a private school so it's so much easier for me than for others but you feel like a proper cock, stopping kiddies enjoying the best fun that there is ( slamming snowballs into people's faces) - f*** I love snow
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Hahahaha is right sir.
 
nick_waters said:
God forbid that we'd allow a single person's wildly inaccurate take on things to denigrate the whole profession and the vast majority of schools that are open across the country. When it comes to 'lazy arse' can we include lazy arse knowledge, lazy arse thinking and lazy arse stereotyping?
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I will stand up now and admit to lazy stereotyping, it's half the fun of GOT but you must also admit to the lazy overpaid under worked teacher thing.........

*waits


Thought not.

Disclaimer; not one word of the above may be true and all teachers on GOT are paragons of educational zeal.
 

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