School Teachers

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Like most jobs, its not for everyone. If you're thinking of doing it, get into a school and see what its really like. Ideally, get into more than one.
 
Noy really mate, I work 'til 8 most nights marking and then get up at 4 to set the work for the day. Holidays are spent marking again and planning, lucky if by the time I've done all that I've got 18 weeks left out of my measly 19.
 
Work in a school, but not a teacher. Also my mum is a teacher. We're expecting Ofsted soon, and all the staff are working their arses off to retain our Outstanding status. They're pretty much all working 10/11hrs, 6 days a week, and that's just what I'm aware off. All the paperwork that's involved seems crazy. My mum has been encouraging me to get into it for years, and now my head asked me. But seeing what they go through I wouldn't do it.
 

Blooy said:
I bet he's not even a school teacher. Rather some old lock smith or something.
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I used to know someone who was a locksmith, boy do they have it easy.

They drive round in their vans most of the day, turn up and spend 30 mins fixing a lock before charging £120 and hour labour for the priviedge.

And go on holiday 6 times a year.
 
Teachers unfortunately have to cater for those that dwell in the gutter to the stars. And that doesnt make a good teaching environment that is beneficial to all under their tutelage.

Too much scum in schools. But then too much scum in society. The befeficial systems will always be eaten away by cancers within.
 
My Dad hated it, my Aunty loved it, and my Uncle seemed to enjoy it too. I guess it depends on you as a person, the school and also what you do in your personal life.
 
My other half teaches in a private pre-prep school. Every morning she starts at 8am with a free breakfast. She also gets free lunch, and a full fifty minutes to eat it. At 4pm she gets a free sandwich. She has a class of nine well-behaved children - she has taught in state schools and says the difference in behaviour is beyond profound - and she leaves each day by 6pm. She has eighteen weeks' holiday a year guaranteed in her contract, of which she probably spends a total of four going into school for planning and marking. On top of all this, she's in her mid twenties and earns more than £1600 a month net.

She absolutely loves her job, and cites the above as the reasons why. Obviously if you can't stand kids then teaching is not the job for you, but I can see why a lot of people leave other professions to take it up.
 

Always wanted to be a teacher growing up. Did a course during my A-levels where I was placed in a school as a teacher's help to get a feel for it. Went back to the primary school I attended as a child in Huyton and gave up on teaching there and then. Too many kids that seemed to need a smack or medication and I couldn't control the classroom, a fight broke out the one time I was left alone for 10 minutes. Dreams=crushed.
 
It must be a broad church when you consider all the types of schools and subjects - could see some jobs being quite easy, others would be brutal.
e.g. Teaching A-level maths at a good school strikes me as a piece of pish (assuming you're v solid on the subject yourself). But teaching something like English or French at a rough school would be a lot harder.
Also primary school education looks like a severe work load, but is maybe more rewarding because young kids change the fastest and have so much potential, so you can see your teaching impacting them more. [Just speculating here, I'm not a teacher myself].
 
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