Also, I know that my immediate colleagues, if I said I just couldn't sort out cover would jump in and sort it for me without question or complaint, but it's not fair that they get that extra work dumped on top of an already overflowing pile.
Comments
Log in with your Bluesky account to leave a comment
And there are always people in 'proper' jobs who say "that's what it's like for everyone," and as someone who has worked 'proper' jobs in between teaching roles I can say that they might *think* it's the same thing, but it very much is not. I've had various jobs in different industries and...
... whilst many of them did have a certain amount of slack that needed to be taken up when someone was off sick, in none of them was it anything like the workload involved in covering a teacher who is unwell.
Yeah it's not. Nothing compares to teaching. My colleague is off for the rest of the week. We've cancelled most of her meetings. Shared 2 out between us that we didn't want to move. And the rest of her work can wait until she's back. It doesn't compare in the slightest to teaching madness!
Comments