Thread: Supply teachers in comparison with locum doctors

Yep I have  been asked that one a few times. They normally ask me which agencies are the best and do they pay to scale, before they hit the parachute. I tell them my fav agencies providing they are not in the same subject as me, (there is enough competition as it is if they are good!) Then I talk about the finer points like signing on with jobcentre plus and how you need an admin team if you are going to claim Council Tax benefits,...

* snobbery :)

Asking a doctor, locum or otherwise, if they are a proper doctor is abusive. Doctors have to right to refuse to treat abusive patients.

 Is that a salute to McGonagall, Geffone? Cx

I often get asked the permanent post question and I generally reply that "no I enjoy having my life back and not being at the mercy of paperwork" - shuts it down pretty quickly. When I get asked it by heads and deputies (again I get that a fair amount of time), I just reply that I'd rather do supply and wait for the ideal job to come up, rather than carpet bombing with applications and ending up somewhere I can't...

I had what was probably my worst supply day today.  Strangely, only 2 out of 5 classes had really objectionable behaviour; it was my treatment at the hands of the school and one teacher that greatly upset me. One teacher arrived in my lesson to speak to a pupil about some form that needed filling in.  She didn't ask for permission to interrupt proceedings and as I needed information on the intracies of the...