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Chemistryandpilates

@chemnorfolk

female Head of Chemistry in Norfolk. Pilates/Yoga enthusiast. PhD in BioChemistry. Cambridge + UEA alumini. Northern girl gone south

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calendar_today16-02-2021 07:23:51

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On DM from a class teacher of 20+ years: 'Everyone is being really cagey about behaviour in their school, in decades I have never seen so much chaos. Squirrelling away to make it all look better than it is…. The needs are huge, social behaviours dreadful, (about 20%) teachers

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In the final staff briefing head said well they missed two years of school. Once again was I living in the twilight zone because I have definitely been in the majority of that?!

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Except everyone tells us how easy it is and how lazy we are. It’s the media that peddles this. Sad to hear a teacher saying the below

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No thanks. Always struggling with the fact the flights are wed or Fridays. When the actual hell are teachers meant to get away if we had maybe two weeks at a time so could fit in one weeks holiday!

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The toilet argument still seems to be rumbling on. What jobs exactly are all these trolls doing where you can go to the toilet whenever you want? Nothing I’ve never worked in before teaching allowed me to just go to the toilet whenever I fancied?!

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news.sky.com/story/cost-of-… so private wages went up which fueled inflation…. So we must keep public sector pay low…. Rightyo

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This. Friend asked me today will I get a pay cut or sacked if all Students don’t get target. How can I be responsible for 40 young adults attainment? I literally have no more to give/gave every waking second.

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School- take email of your phone during summer for ‘wellbeing’ Also school- pointless emails asking questions about class lists send multiple times if I don’t reply within 30 min?!

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Dreading tomorrow because I can already feel the demeaning telling off heads of subject get… even though we had no control over the changes to grades. Even though we cannot make a kid care. Even though we cannot make a kid pick up a pen. But sure. It’s all our fault