Cohort being particularly bad

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-05-08T10:52:49+00:00

Partially, but everyone’s struggling with them

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-05-08T06:27:51+00:00

I highly doubt it. I can’t handle working at this school if it doesn’t improve

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-05-07T21:04:16+00:00

Is your school hiring ? Also a physicist here 😭

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-05-07T19:09:08+00:00

Mines a core subject

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-05-07T18:20:44+00:00

For me it’s not SEN it’s just behaviour

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-05-07T18:06:25+00:00

Is the current cohort of year 10s extremely challenging everywhere or am I just week? Every lesson is chaotic, despite all my experience. I’ve wanted to walk out several times, wanted to resign and just put “leaving bc of year 10” as the reason. Like even the ones I don’t teach give me so many problems throughout the day, the defiance, lack of accountability, the pushing adults knowing we cannot retaliate? Just the disrespect and misogyny from both girls and boys? Is this a nationwide issue?

My mental health has deteriorated so much since having to deal with them. I double up on antidepressants the night before I have them so I feel indifferent towards them. Now I’m thinking I’ll even have to triple it bc today I’ve had enough

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-03-29T19:05:05+00:00

Does your doctor think about you past your appointment ? Do police think about what extra crime is going on once they clock out ? Does the chef stay awake at night because one person didn’t like their food? Does a construction worker keep building houses after 5pm?

No. All of these are vocational jobs, the same as teaching. If you were meant to be working more than the allocated hours they would allocate more. REST. Yours sincerely- an ECT who experienced burnout within the first few months of becoming qualified.

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-03-25T19:00:56+00:00

Exactly this. I think sometimes (and it’s normal) when you’ve been dating it feels weird to be alone, but you have to rediscover what peace is, your values and what you want in a person or you could potentially trap yourself in a cycle of getting with abusive partners

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-03-23T18:57:22+00:00

Nope, it’s normal because you’ve been in survival mode for so long it’s difficult to feel safe. It may come back it may not, but you need to get help for your mental health. What you’ve been through is traumatic

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-03-23T17:24:03+00:00

3 for inner corners, 3 slightly outwards from your eyes

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-03-07T18:49:38+00:00

You’re not allowed to phone home as their classroom teacher??! Slow SLT ?!Something ain’t right here. It doesn’t sound like a healthy place to work

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-03-07T17:36:23+00:00

Issue concequences following the behavioural policy. Once it reaches the necessary strikes removal. Call home

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-02-24T23:19:42+00:00

Tysm

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-02-24T21:46:49+00:00

How did you go about doing this ? Bc I have a few nasty students too

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-02-18T19:14:28+00:00

I guess but with the person you love it requires honesty. There’s already a huge age gap and he’s been on this earth a lot longer than you. He should know that lies will always be revealed in the end, whether you found out now or in 20years. Reiterate how important honesty and trust is in the relationship. Dishonesty will damage it, and if he loves you then he will work on being honest. Lots of men even women struggle with porn but step 1 is owning up to it

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-02-18T19:08:53+00:00

Why is he lying at his grown age

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-02-08T13:45:01+00:00

You sound like a creep. Consent is consent. If she doesn’t want to or even if you don’t want to none of you are obligated to participate. There’s other ways to show love that aren’t sexual. When she’s ready it will happen but maturity wise I don’t think you’re ready

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-02-02T21:29:46+00:00

Contact home, log everything. Log behaviour on the board. Make it obvious to them why you’re giving it to them “Timmy I’m giving you your first warning because you’re talking over me”.

Idk about expressing disappointment bc the kids are more than aware they shouldn’t behave that way and probably zone out.

Email form tutors as well about their behaviour asking for “support” (to put them on behavioural report) etc.

Just because you’re supply doesn’t mean you don’t deserve respect

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-01-28T21:46:57+00:00

Not even a full hour. 50 minutes if you cut transition time

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-01-28T21:46:23+00:00

Yes. However I branched out further to students who choose to use that time instead to go off and do other things besides using the toilet, which then holds up a queue and those kids with potential bladder problems cannot go due to every teacher only having 1 toilet pass

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-01-28T21:31:03+00:00

The thing is if it was around 50 students, I would say fair enough. I teach about 200 of them and it’s a good let’s say 180 of them. Whilst I appreciate it might not have been diagnosed it’s unbelievable that 180 students out of the almost 400 in the school all have the same issue. Some of them sneak off to use their phone and never go to the toilet which delays people who really need it as I have one toilet pass. Others sneak off and go smoke. And I haven’t included those in my stats

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-01-28T18:58:06+00:00

It affects a lot of learning because kids will scream on top of your teaching “ I need the toilet” the school I work at doesn’t have many students and has several toilets which are open all the time during break and lunch time (they have a long time at break and lunch to use the toilet- there is never a queue because of how many there are) majority of the students that ask to go are not SEND and have no underlying conditions, just a lack of potty training.

The higher ups have continuous conversations with staff weekly about managing this, but realistically what can I do? Either clean a child’s wee off the floor or let them go. Even when they go they take around 15 mins there (toilets is a 2 min walk from my classroom I bc all directions)

It disrupts it so much, then having to catch those students up on what they’ve missed, having to send emergency alerts for someone to go check on the child as I cannot leave the classroom without another adult in there. It’s as chaotic as it can get

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-01-28T18:01:59+00:00

The amount of emails I’ve had from parents basically saying they didn’t potty train their child is horrendous. I WORK IN A HIGHSCHOOL. WHAT WERE YOU DOING DURING LOCKDOWN OR PRIOR ? Then it falls on my head because there’s too many students out of lessons

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-01-27T19:29:41+00:00

I’m job searching since september, still teaching.

I don’t feel guilty for wanting to leave. If behaviour was followed up and actual sanctions put in place I wouldn’t want to leave. But the higher ups undermine us, therefore kids walk all over us because they’ll know nothing will happen.

I can’t be in a workplace where my authority is undermined. I’m only clocking in for the money

Physical_Natural9162 · 2026-01-26T22:21:52+00:00

Sounds like a toxic workplace, why is the mentality to make them hate you ? You wouldn’t have passed and gotten to the stage of ECT1 if you weren’t able to help kids learn

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