People like making things up about teachers.
Somewhere along the line, someone started a rumour that teachers in Australia start work at, like, 8:30ish. They just waltz into a classroom, probably pulling a box television from the 1980s, and while they drink their coffee and read a magazine, they force their students to watch some traumatising sex-ed video before shouting: “NO QUESTIONS”.
After that, they get a recess break AND a lunch break, before running out the door at 3:15pm to go home and watch Netflix. And they only do that for like… four weeks a year. The rest of the time they’re in the Maldives. On holiday. Fanning themselves with taxpayers money.
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As the daughter of two teachers, I can say how much I enjoyed our family holidays in the Maldives growing up, and how great it was having my parents at home at 4pm everyday, smiling about their stress-free days.
Except I cannot say that at all because none of it happened.
There are five questions that people seriously have to stop asking teachers, because there seems to be some bizarre myths about one of the world’s most important professions.
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Teaching is the best job I've ever had. A lot of teachers have no clue what it's like not to be a teacher. I am realistic in saying that teachers do very much live in the real world, but to constantly complain about the job? The article is such a load of crap. The main thing that irks me is that people who don't teach have no clue what other things the job entails, I would say the smallest part of my job is actually teaching. The rest is data entry, pastoral care, dealing with fucked in the head parents who turn their child into an anxious mess, extra curricular activities, never ending professional development, pretty much organising a town of kids and that's just starting with the nuts and bolts of the job. But our pay is great, holidays are fantastic, work hours are flexible once the final bell goes and most leave not long after the bell to do some work at night. But working with kids is an awesome job, I love it, I love teaching them new things, giving them confidence when their parents shoot them down because they didn't get a certain grade their cousin's child got so they are embarrassing the family, etc. etc. I've heard the "You're out to get my child" before. There's a simple response to that. I say "How good is education here, you can go and enrol in another school if that's the way you feel. I want what's best for your child and if you aren't interested in sharing the same goal there's the door." That generally shuts their mouth and gets them onside when they realise you aren't going to take their shit. Adults are just like kids, if they know a pussy is in charge they will run riot.
What nonsense. Waste of my time reading this. You’d be lucky to find a teacher past 4pm at my kids’ primary school.