Good stuff clubs happy things are working out for you.
Missus still teaching?
no mate, she pack it up about 5 years ago, too much stress, anxiety and bullying going on within schools that turned into Academies. Soon as a school switched from council to an Academy working conditions plummeted. Every teacher would have to reapply for their own jobs on a lesser wage, as the Academies know theyres NQTs out there that would work for peanuts so loads of teachers with decades of experience, and on high wages, were here forced to have huge pay cuts or lose their jobs. Had you over a barrel. Was loads of teachers that went off sick from depression and working pressure. Longer hours for less money. Got to the point were my missus would come home and be nervous about the following day.
told her to feck it off as she wasnt enjoying it anymore, was truly horrible.
Academies were that bad as a teacher not long after she left they changed working conditions again. Get this.....because Academies are classed as business, they profit on childrens grades and grants etc, they fecked the teachers over and said your only getting paid for the standard amount of time for holidays as someone in the private sector. Meaning the 14 weeks of the year teachers have off, terms, 6 weeks holidays etc, all scrapped! They could only have 21 days paid holiday, same as everyone else in the private sector. Instantly teachers at some Academies lost 2.5 months wage! So not only did they force you to take a wage cut or lose your job, they then striped you off paid holidays!
Council run schools dont have any of the above rules, as its public sector, so teachers get 10% price rise each year, longer contracts and not yearly rolling on at Academies so your jobs never safe. So glad she got out.
Now she works at a butchers, family run, great team, better hours, zero stress! A lot less money but it doesnt matter, we're happy.