The Plus Side Of Schools Being Shut

[diddlydo]

From friends and acquaintances I have the impression that parents, particularly those of primary school kids, are finding the home-schooling thing very stressful to deal with. Perhaps this will stop some people from knocking teachers and saying that they have a cushy life and that teaching is "easy" and make parents more appreciative of the great job they are doing. I hope......

[Buenchico]

When I used to run tours for our school sports' teams (cricket and football), we always had a policy of inviting a parent to join us as one of our supervisory team. They all came back saying it was the most exhausting experience they'd ever had ;-)

[diddlydo]

Precisely Buenchico! Non-teachers have no idea how demanding the job is. As well as clapping for the NHS and carers on Thursday evenings, we should also clap for teachers who have worked in schools in rotation throughout the Easter holidays in order to keep them open for the children of key workers and vulnerable children.

[albaqwerty]

I hope when/if we ever get back to normal, the parents who were never away from school complaining about the punishments their ''little darlings'' were given now realise that their ''little darling'' has been the problem all along.

[Buenchico]

Your post, Alba, reminds me of the time I answered the phone in our school staff room some time after the school had closed. It was the mother of one of the girls in my class, wanting to know why she'd not yet arrived home.

I asked around a few colleagues and found that she'd be kept in detention for half an hour by the Head of English but that
(a) she would have had had a note to take home about it in advance and ;
(b) she'd left school some time before and should have been home by now.

I explained this to her mother, who launched into a tirade about how dangerous it was for her 15yo daughter to have to walk about half a mile home at 3.30pm, rather than catch the school bus at 3pm. (That was despite me knowing that her daughter walked home from the youth club on the school premises at 10pm every night).

I politely said that I'd pass this on to her English teacher, so that (if a similar situation arose again) he could apply an alternative sanction, such as setting extra homework. I then received another tirade about the amount of homework that the daughter was already getting and that she definitely should never be given any more.

Without any further prompting from me, the mother then yelled out all her reasons why her daughter should never be punished in any way at all (including mentioning caning, which had been abolished years before anyway).

I wasn't allowed to get any more words in myself, however, before her mother screamed one final sentence at me and slammed the phone down. That final sentence? "There's NO DISCIPLINE in schools these days!"

;-)

[albaqwerty]

I wouldn't know whether to have laughed or cried when sitting holding the phone after that tirade.

some people.... :D :D

[shoota]

There's a term for that - it's called 'Teacake logic'...

[fiction-factory]

Some parents might find it hard dealing with their children one-to one or one-to-two but a lot would still be shocked if they could see what some of their children get up to at school when playing up to impress their mates. I wish some classes could be filmed or parents could sit in at the back to see what their darlings get up to.

[Prernasharma]

This is not completely true. There are e-learning app companies who are designing the reliable and user friendly apps that are making the online teaching and learning easily. Parents can easily access the facility and keep the children active in this lockdown. I found this one of the effective way without compromising.