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Kids that missed school missed out.
Kids that were only just born, didn't miss school and got to have lots of time with their parents.
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It would be quite nice if some of the comments at the time about realising how tricky a classroom teacher's job can be (bearing in mind that most parents only had to manage a couple of children) had a lasting impact on how much teachers are valued.
Sadly, having seen comments from certain quarters, it's clear that that respect is not universal.
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Grew up with a teacher, 4 of my wife’s friends were teachers but they’ve since all quit after about a decade, one now teaches in prisons (“so much better”) one is a dentist receptionist “I’m paid more”) and two have gone into HR (“ I am now able save for a mortgage” “I don’t miss working deep into the night”)
From what they say the teaching bit is fine. It’s all the crap that isn’t teaching that put them off
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I'd hope that teachers are good and (mostly) enjoy the teaching bit, as they chose that path and have been trained to do it. (FWIW, it really can be a fantastically rewarding thing to do.) There's something wrong with teachers who don't enjoy the teaching bit, and they shouldn't be there, for the sakes of both themselves and the children.
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A lot of parents had to manage home schooling a couple of children and a full time job. I don't think that is comparable to a regular teacher.
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It's a fair point, but IIRC, just the teaching bit seemed to be the subject of quite a bit of "how on earth do teachers do this?" comments at the time. From what I remember, the first lockdown was hell for most parents, when children were just emailed stuff in the morning and left to it. I think the second one was much better handled, overall, with a lot more structured stuff being done live online.
FWIW, it does seem to come 'naturally' to some young pupils: part of my school role has been taking pupils into other schools where they become the 'teachers': some are just brilliant from the off, some really struggle. I suspect it's the same with parents... I guess a lot of it comes down to role models, be they parents or previous teachers who have instilled stuff about how to learn well (or not) into the next generation.
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I dunno, they were in pretty underprivileged places. Priority was feeding and clothing the most needy long before they got to teaching. Sounded awful tbh. Basically spend 1/4 of the day acting as social services and then getting in trouble for not getting through the curriculum sufficiently.
You can't really teach children like that in the normal way - it's not set up for that.
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I just find it really odd that teachers would use this as justification for the challenges of their job. Having training and experience at anything makes it easier.
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Yep, that makes the teaching bit take second place, and even they are good at all the other 'stuff', it's not why they went into the job in the first place.
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I can see why they’re all leaving. Can you believe my friend thinks teaching in prisons is better than primary kids. She was deputy head teacher at 27 at one point.
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My hunch would be that those inmates who go to her lessons actually want to learn stuff. Unfortunately not all children see the point in learning the stuff that they have to. The real reward from teaching comes from people learning stuff, not the £s.
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Well, someone else is dealing with discipline, food, clothing, etc. Very easy to see why it might be easier.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Funny how you get hardened to the sleep deprivation.
With #1 it felt brutal. I remember mentioning it a lot.
Pretty sure I am getting less sleep with #2 but meh, I really don't notice it in the same way. Don't get me wrong, I'm falling asleep on the train both ways which is usually a sign I'm pretty tired, and the concentration is definitely poor, but it just doesn't feel horrific like it did with #1.
Noticed in a baby class a lot of the first time parents saying how tough the sleep deprivation was. Honestly, I'd forgotten about it.
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Lol. After a while you just forget what not being tired feels like.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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The parenting gods have punished me for this post. I’m sleeping worse than when he was a newborn. The boy gripes *so loudly* in his sleep all night. Starts about at 1am and stops around 4;30am
3rd night on the sofa. Getting quite sore in the neck and shoulders now.
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Nice one.
A not insignificant event... I can still remember when I realised I didn't need stabilisers (and they were actually getting in the way), so asked my dad to take them off...
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Next stop; aggressively hot housing in a futile pursuit to create a world beating cyclist.
(….or just buying her an ice cream to say well done)
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No stabilisers in the modern world. Balance before pedals.
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Old school.
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Yes. Buy the bike with pedals, lower the seat and take the pedals off.
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Did buy stabilisers and then ditch them?
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Came with them. Quite a good design they were really easy to take on and off without tools.
Though I think that it was pink with unicorns is really what swung it.
plus it cost the same as a balance bike.
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Depends on the kid I think. One of ours really wanted a pedal bike with stabilisers. One loved zooming about on their balance bike. Both can ride now.
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Horses for courses, my eldest had the pink sparkly bike with stabilisers and never got to grips with the balance bike at all (she just walked while straddling it).
The youngest picked it up immediately and used to stand up on the crossbar to make it more exciting. She also learned to ride a pedal bike very quickly and quite young but I think it was just natural aptitude rather than a big benefit of the balance bike
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