To teachers, especially special ed - Lung Conditions C...
To teachers, especially special ed
Mrmelley.we have solved the distress of home tuturing by sending all our children to work on the front line,the average age of an Nhs worker now is 12 and the early entry crteria for the police force(all 10 of them) has been lowered to just 8 yrs old. Thankfully we shut down our coal mining industry years ago to avoid industrial related lung diseases in infancy. 
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This is great! The teachers are now doing an 'invisible' job which must be pretty hard, especially when they have their own kids at home too.
My daughter is admin of a small school but is still having to work four days a week, sorting out all sorts of queries and loads of emails to answer every day. She also has to go into the building at regular intervals and run all the taps so that when school reopens it passes the Legionnaires test. Free school meals vouchers have proved another challenge. These are just a few things that aren't normally thought about, but while she is dealing with them, she can't supervise her children's lessons. She knows how hard the teachers work, not only in term time, and I know she is grateful to every one of them.
My son, on the other hand, is having a lovely time at home with the kids! He is unable to open his business at the moment but is having to bat a lot of calls and emails too. However, most of them aren't time critical so he can take time out to teach. However, he is still grateful to the teachers who manage to get his 5yr old to sit still long enough to learn and practice his reading and writing. He wonders how they manage a whole class full!
I think teachers have been undervalued for far too long. God bless 'em all!
xx Moy
How oh how do they manage a class of 30 or more !
It’s good to hear so much good feedback and appreciation for teachers at last. I spent 19 years teaching, mainly to children with special needs and it was an enormously rewarding, fun job but I do remember some friends commenting on the holidays. My answer was simple - why don’t you give it a go?
Best wishes to all teachers and ex teachers
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Absolutely agree Corin. My daughter is an assistant head yrs 5/6 and works part of the summer holidays and always works during some of Easter to help the kids get through their sats. She also stays overnight when they have a trial run for residential as most of their kids have never spent a night away from home. Then drive the bus and stays on residential, going back to pick up some kids for the day who could not tolerate staying over for a number of reasons. When ignorant folks start all that crap about holidays and crayoning she asks why if they think it’s that easy why they don’t get an application form, that is if they’ve been to university for 4 years of course. It’s about time in my opinion they are recognised for the professionals they are. Maybe now the hard, caring and nurturing work they do will be more appreciated, now that folks have had a go at it with their own kids.
My daughter works in a primary school in a very deprived area with over 700 kids in a school built for 400. So just how they social distance will be interesting.
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Your daughter is a saint.
She would say she is just doing her job, along with many others. They are still working through this. They are working hard to plan the logistics of children going back to school safely. She will not allow my gd back to school unless she is satisfied it is safe.
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I was a classroom assistant in a special school for six years. The children were lively and challenging but it was a wonderful place to work. However, every holiday started for me with laryngitis or another bug and I would be no good to anyone for the first two weeks. I used to get home from school exhausted. It would often take me half an hour to wind down before I could listen to my own children talk about their day. And remember, I wasn't a teacher with reports to write and learning to plan.
I then took a job with social services. My hours were longer and I had no school holidays but it was SO much easier. Instead of the intense days, full of laughter and disaster, I had relatively calm days with time to make a coffee in between appointments.
I realised that I was working just as hard, but it was spread out over the year with longer days and so more manageable. No more laryngitis, time for my family again.
I take my hat off to the teachers who keep going year after year. They need those holidays, they really do!
xx Moy
I remember lots of parents thinking that we teachers had a cushy job until they came on school trips ( I was in primary education) . They had charge of 8 cherubs at the most and I always had the more challenging pupils however when back at school their reaction was "I 'm exhausted- don't know how you do it - I need a few beers ? bottle of wine " x Anita
