It is a shame that you chose to introduce yourself in such a way. Teaching is hard work nowadays and being pregnant is an additional source of stress. I hope you will be more relaxed and feel better after a few days in your garden and will have a better perspective on life. Children are the product of their upbringing. I taught in a secondary school for over thirty years, and yes, I was sometimes sworn at and children could be rude, angry and disobedient. They had yet to learn better ways of coping with frustration, anger or distress. But they only learn respect by being treated with respect and understanding. Some of the homes they came from were unbelievably bad and school was the only stable element in their lives. Many of the children I taught had special needs of some sort, but I was lucky that the school had a caring ethos and it was before the days when lives were ruled by constant tests and assessments. The children could also be delightful, kind and caring, and I still sometimes meet someone from years ago. Only last week a burly man came up to me at the farm supplies store and introduced himself as one of my ex-pupils, now aged 40, and a week or two before it was the mother of one of my first students, when I was very young and inexperienced, who came up to me in the medical centre to say hello. Very few jobs have the potential for you to make so much difference in someone's life, but motherhood is another. I hope that things go smoothly for you, that your garden cheers you and that you are able to adjust to the changes brought by having a child of your own.
Oh don't get me wrong I love my job. The boy does have problems so I wasn't so shocked.
The girl however was just trying to be smart. She knows they are not allowed to go to the toilet during lesson time.
Brilliant post Buttercupdays. Both my parents were teachers and I am also well aware, that without the enthusiasm of my own teachers, I would not have achieved much.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Teaching is the most important job there is ... my lovely step-grand-daughter is a newly qualified primary teacher and I'm immensely proud of her ..... the vast majority of teachers are saints and angels
I'd just like to say ... having been a shy child who often got teased by other girls in the toilets, I would try to wait until towards the end of break time when they'd left the area before I used the loos ... one day I timed things badly and didn't give myself enough time and had to go back to the lesson .......... I wet myself in the classroom .... I was nine years old and mortified beyond measure ........ it took years for those girls to stop teasing me and even longer for me to stop thinking that everyone in the world knew about my humiliation .... I'm not saying this was the case on your last day... you know the children you teach ... but just saying ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Teaching is the most important job there is ... my lovely step-grand-daughter is a newly qualified primary teacher and I'm immensely proud of her ..... the vast majority of teachers are saints and angels
I'd just like to say ... having been a shy child who often got teased by other girls in the toilets, I would try to wait until towards the end of break time when they'd left the area before I used the loos ... one day I timed things badly and didn't give myself enough time and had to go back to the lesson .......... I wet myself in the classroom .... I was nine years old and mortified beyond measure ........ it took years for those girls to stop teasing me and even longer for me to stop thinking that everyone in the world knew about my humiliation .... I'm not saying this was the case on your last day... you know the children you teach ... but just saying ....
Lovely, what year does she teach? I teach year 6.
They are are old enough to be able to wait for the loo until break unless of course they have a medical reason.
I was so terrified of using school toilets that I only used them 3 times in the whole of secondary school. I used to leave home at 8 and walk 2 miles there, leave and walk 2 miles home and get in at 4.30, then go to the toilet.
She teaches the littlies ... rising 5s. She said that every problem she's ever had bas been with parents, never with the children ... they're so eager to please their teacher they're like putty in her hands.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
She teaches the littlies ... rising 5s. She said that every problem she's ever had bas been with parents, never with the children ... they're so eager to please their teacher they're like putty in her hands.
Bless them. I agree it is usually the parents. The mum of the girl was more annoyed I refused the girl the toilet rather than the fact she was rude to me.
When my daughter was 5 she needed to go to the toilet and the teacher wouldn’t let her, saying she should go at break, well, sometimes at that age they can’t always time it like that. Poor kid had to do a poo in her knickers and sit in them until home time. you can’t imagine the uproar I caused down that school, I kept her off for 3 weeks, she could not face anybody. After that, I would go to the school at break time and bring her out at lunchtime. Luckily it didn’t spoil her with school forever.
I think children of that age should be allowed to go when they need to, at least the teacher apologised to Karen and to me.
Far too much pressures put on small children these days at school.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
When my daughter was 5 she needed to go to the toilet and the teacher wouldn’t let her, saying she should go at break, well, sometimes at that age they can’t always time it like that. Poor kid had to do a poo in her knickers and sit in them until home time. you can’t imagine the uproar I caused down that school, I kept her off for 3 weeks, she could not face anybody. After that, I would go to the school at break time and bring her out at lunchtime. Luckily it didn’t spoil her with school forever.
I think children of that age should be allowed to go when they need to, at least the teacher apologised to Karen and to me.
Far too much pressures put on small children these days at school.
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The girl however was just trying to be smart. She knows they are not allowed to go to the toilet during lesson time.
Both my parents were teachers and I am also well aware, that without the enthusiasm of my own teachers, I would not have achieved much.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I'd just like to say ... having been a shy child who often got teased by other girls in the toilets, I would try to wait until towards the end of break time when they'd left the area before I used the loos ... one day I timed things badly and didn't give myself enough time and had to go back to the lesson .......... I wet myself in the classroom .... I was nine years old and mortified beyond measure ........ it took years for those girls to stop teasing me and even longer for me to stop thinking that everyone in the world knew about my humiliation .... I'm not saying this was the case on your last day... you know the children you teach ... but just saying ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They are are old enough to be able to wait for the loo until break unless of course they have a medical reason.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
you can’t imagine the uproar I caused down that school, I kept her off for 3 weeks, she could not face anybody. After that, I would go to the school at break time and bring her out at lunchtime. Luckily it didn’t spoil her with school forever.
I think children of that age should be allowed to go when they need to, at least the teacher apologised to Karen and to me.
Far too much pressures put on small children these days at school.