Especially during the summer when teachers are off. Weekend? It's the summer friggen break! During the school year it's a little different as teachers put in many, and often odd, hours so they can have many perfectly valid reasons to be there, but in the summer?
If you think teaching is babysitting I invite you to school you children with babysitters...
NOT what the Libs had proposed, because of the proposed age group, it was simply a baby sitting service.
Exactly.
Oh shit. Just saw this post of yours now after I posted above. lol
Yep, pretty much covers it.
Some teachers can have a problem with that because unlike other jobs they are basically expected to be volunteering large swaths of their time, and like I said, during the school year they frequently have long and odd hours at a school. It can make their relationship with a school a little 'weird'. Teaching is often somewhere between a 'job' and a 'calling' (which is a big part of the reason why I decided early on that it wasn't for me). This isn't really helped by teachers needing to maintain good standing in their communities, and because of teaching being perceived as a 'good job' despite having a glut of teachers there's a pretty strong selection bias over who get through teachers college and gets hired full time. It can sometimes cause identity, relatability, and work life balance issues.
Common for science teachers to go in on weekends. Running small greenhouses or similar plantings, aquariums, etc.
I'm 99% sure the issue here was summer break more than weekend... Especially if you're a custodian trying to get shit done.
The idea of teacher as member in good standing in their community is a notion from another era when teachers actually lived and worked in their communities. principals would guide and support families over two or three generations. Now they are all merely employees. Many on contracts. Many on sick leaves. Tons travelling over 100 km each day from home to school because it's a foot in the door to a full time job. shuffled from school to school each year. There is no bond. Zero opportunity for commitment to community. It's merely another aspect of the rat race , a ticket for a pay check All at the expense of our youth. they see it too,hence their cynicism
Pathetic. This has nothing to do with union no matter how much you want to pretend. A guy tried to get into a private event and wasn't allowed. End of story.
To a degree yes, and there is a clear rural / urban divide there, but a teacher still has to be far more mindful of their public face than at most jobs. (Even in the city.)
Was probably checking to see if anybody was doing "union work", you know how unions are, especially civil servant unions.
Because on off work hours, people can steal, wreak havoc when nobody is around, when a person isnt being supervised. just because a person works there, just because its their workplace, just because a person is a teacher, doesnt mean theyre a good person, up to any good, doesnt mean they have good intentions.
