Glastonbury for Teachers

[mattrgee]

Hi guys,

Any teachers out there who have bunked off school to get to Glastonbury or planning too? If so, what excuse did you use, or were the school understanding?

[OhTheGoats]

I teach year 6. My school only works mornings on a Friday, and I've already agreed with my year group team that I can have the morning off. Today my head of year (we're a big school), said that I could have Thursday afternoon too if I wangle it with the Head. It was decided that I not mention it until Easter on a formal basis though. We'll be fully into end of year rehearsals for the school play at that point - this year we were giving each other afternoons off all over the place because we just didn't need that many staff running the rehearsals.

I won't skive, if they won't give me the time off then I'll only be able to go down Friday lunchtime.

I always leave Sunday night anyway (just can't drink anymore by Sunday), so Monday will be rough but do-able.

[biigsybmx]

I did this year, but was only doing a maternity cover and said I had a pre arranged holiday when i took the contract! planning on doing something similar fo 2010!

[IamChappu]

My friend & her bf are both primary school teachers at the same school. Luckily they have a day off on the Friday anyway (not sure why?) & their headmaster has said they can take the Monday off too!

[markeee]

wont it be hard to get a good spot if you dont go till friday?

[biigsybmx]

wont it be hard to get a good spot if you dont go till friday?

[llcoolphil]

Don't teachers have enough holidays?

[-pogo-]

Don't teachers have enough holidays?

[llcoolphil]

Awww poo poo. Would you expect to work over your holidays? (marking, class plans, etc)

[OhTheGoats]

Campervan - my mates are going in on Wednesday. I just go and join them.

[-pogo-]

If I had 13 weeks of them, reckon I might squeeze a bit in yeah.

[LondonTom]

If I had 13 weeks of them, reckon I might squeeze a bit in yeah.

[Langdale Wolf]

How to piss off your mates who are teachers - 2 examples:

1. You get long holidays, don't you?

2. You only work until 3.30. Get a full time job.

They only have 1 reply.

1. Yeah, but we have to do MARKING.

Bets response? F**k - how DO you manage to put a tick or a cross next to a 10 year old's 12 times tables homework?

Annoys them greatly. It's fun. And they need to be annoyed. Put 2 teachers (who have never previously met before) in a room and introduce them as teachers and you can bet they'll talk about f**king teaching.

Ah well, we get to go to Glasto on Wednesday morning. Early. And be drinking beer before 9am whilst you're trying to teach some ignorant sprogling that Churchill was prime minister, not a 'jowley insurance hound'.

I spend a lot of time in the company of teachers. And they talk about teaching too much. Does my irritation show?

[OhTheGoats]

Well, I came in to teaching late after 10 years in finance management.. and you'll get no arguments from me, the holidays are ace.. even if in reality you only end up getting half your official amount as 'free' holidays, it still allows me a month long trip a year plus a couple of other holidays. I would have been lucky to find time to take my official 5 weeks at all in my old job.

The rest of the working conditions are broadly comparable - I work just as much in my 'free' time now as I did in my previous 'life'. Just now I have a load more fun at work, I laugh more in a day at the 'office' than I used to in a year. I earn shit all in comparison, but for the moment it's worth it.

I try not to talk about teaching with my mates. It's boring for them.

[llcoolphil]

Can't choose though can you so there's one more minus point to the teachers having the 13 weeks.

[OhTheGoats]

Well, luckily those teachers will be used to dealing with immature children, and also to turning on the 'oh dear, I'm so jealous' faked response - we do it everyday. Fact is, if they wanted to go, they could.

[Storm_NL]

I spend a lot of time in the company of teachers. And they talk about teaching too much. Does my irritation show?

[Langdale Wolf]

You don't spend *enough* time in the company of teachers! Your spelling and grammar is appalling, you man!!!

[Storm_NL]

Is it balls! I might have spent 'jowly' wrong, but otherwise my SPAG is perfect.

So get to f**k!

[-pogo-]

One more minus point? What are the others? 13 weeks holiday is going to take a lot of minus points to counteract it let me tell you!

[BeddyDriver]

We've already established it's not 13 weeks realy. It's about half that; 6.5 weeks. Now it doesn't seem as appealing does it?

[-pogo-]

yeh but youve forgotten the early finish every day too ;-Q

[BeddyDriver]

Which when you get home, you have x ammount of homework jotters to mark. Say an extra 2 hours at night for that?

[LondonTom]

yeh but youve forgotten the early finish every day too ;-Q

[biscant]

A scouse teacher from our college said he had a "dodgy knee" got robbed of 500 quid so sold 8 grams of cocaine and went home, true story.