Teachers - Working Day

[sunny-dave]

Spinning out of my News thread, where there was a routine swipe at "idle teachers"

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1235297-2.html

Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s I had a lot of friends who were teachers (secondary and primary). Families did not routinely have more than one car in those days and many of my teaching friends were 'stuck' at school until a non-teaching partner finished work & they could share the trip home. So they did their marking and preparation whilst they waited.

The general opinion then was that if a teacher arrived at 8:30 and worked solidly through until 5ish (ie a normal working day for other jobs) then they would have no work to do at evenings and weekends, apart from occasional bursts to do exam marking and reports.

Essentially teaching could (if you wished) be a "9 to 5" job - but with much longer holidays than any other professional career.

Is this still the case - or has the load been increased to the point where it's just not feasible any more and significant evening and weekend work is impossible to avoid?

[Svejk]

Mmmmmm, the smell of a new satchel.

[tonyav]

Yes dot that feathered hair cut was popular with the gals, did you wear one of those Treviera coats. No 1 cut for me back then.

[tonyav]

Oooooooh Svejk the satchel sniffer ! lol.

[DJHawkes]

i agree it must be fake, mind you, those aussies are plain speaking

[humbersloop]

it's a hoax, though a good one

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/maroochydore-school-answering-machine-hoax.shtml

[Svejk]

Me & my pals;
http://logicalconclusion.net/wp-content/uploads/eton-boys.jpg

[tonyav]

I bloody knew it !, Lord Snooty ^^^^^6

[vulcan42]

Don't knock it tony, that's you on the left
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ScSuKnwYCq4/TKSYe9unDMI/AAAAAAAAAKM/TLlT1k2GH2A/s1600/Picture+005.jpg

[tonyav]

Oh no it's not vulcan, I'm the third from the left !.

[Svejk]

Had to wear short trousers till we were about 20. And a little round cap 5 sizes too small.
Made us hard as nails mind.

[tonyav]

Could have been worse though Svejk, your parents could have called you Sue, now that would have made you tough lol.

[Svejk]

Svejk wasn't no bed of roses in the S.Wales valleys, Tony. ;-)
Do apologise to Sunny-Dave for going 'slightly' off topic.