Teachers are cranky.
So cranky that if they could find TODAY’s Phoebe Burgess she’d probably be on detention.
Saturday detention.
Phoebe Burgess has been taken to the virtual Principal’s office of social media and scolded for her comments regarding teachers.
The panellist has found herself in trouble after claiming our beloved teachers are lazy as they “clock off at 3pm”.
The pregnant TV presenter and wife of South Sydney Rabbitohs player Sam Burgess, was on a panel discussing the move by an English secondary school to ban homework so that teachers will have more time to plan “inspiring lessons” rather than setting and marking homework.
Burgess, a regular on the show, told the hosts that she didn’t support the move, saying she was for “old school education” and felt homework was beneficial for “discipline, work ethic, cementing what they have learnt for the day.”
She said that her sister was a Latin teacher and she saw what work teachers did and she felt they certainly did have the time if they wanted to fit in marking homework.
“I think it’s plain lazy to say you don’t have time,” she said.
“You clock off at 3pm. Make the time.”
Top Comments
Phoebe Burgess is proof that an old time education, is no protection against becoming an ignorant nincompoop. The criticism is a bit rich, coming from someone who only works a few hours a day, sometimes.
Yes, I know that there is time involved, working behind the scenes. knowledge that distinguishes me from the embarrassingly stupid Mrs Burgess. Accusing a teacher of working short hours, involves a kind of deliberate blindness to the reality, that teachers who leave one place of employment at 3pm, are only going back to the place where they do much of their work, home.
As to homework, it not only wastes a teachers time, but the time of students and their parents. Study after study has shown that homework does little if anything to help in the teaching/learning process and in many cases, detracts from the learning experience.
Proof, if it's needed, that most people only know about a tenth of another person's job and too many people feel perfectly entitled to comment from a place of ignorance. Most teachers, llike most nurses, firefighters, office people ... you name it ... do a good day's work for their pay. People who think they could do better than someone else should do a day's work in their place and then feel free to judge.