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Hugh Reilly: Teachers make hay in May, for all too soon it will be June

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Published Date: 13 May 2009
IN TERMS of the school calendar, May is the chill-out month for stressed classroom teachers. As a consequence of the SQA examinations, senior pupils are on study leave, thus class contact is greatly reduced.
Some petty-minded, non-teaching friends think it is a disgrace that chalkies such as I continue to draw a full salary, at the taxpayers' expense, for teaching only half of the week.

When I choose to reply to this green-eyed smear by invoking the...



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  • Last Updated: 12 May 2009 6:41 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Hugh Reilly , Teaching
 
1

fife runner,

13/05/2009 06:52:38
my wife certainly does not chill out. she has new classes to prepare for. other colleagues are away with primary school kids coming up to secondary so she has to cover for them.

although it does allow a certain amount of leeway, it does make up for the extra hours spent at home both weekday nights and weekends doing school work at most other times. if teachers did work contracted hours then school would come to a grinding halt if extra work not done.

it also also allows her to destress to a certain amount. Although most kisd are great it is the ones who are disruptive cause misery for both staff and pupils alike. Her present school is ok but at previous school she was assaulted twice, once leading to 6 weeks off.

 

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