Email misery

Constant emails from “aggressive” parents are becoming “unbearable” for some teachers, a survey suggests. The poll indicates seven in ten teachers have had their email addresses passed on to parents.

A further point is that parents these days are much more likely to take the children’s side immediately, whereas years ago if a child got punished at school they risked another punishment at home for doing whatever led to the punishment at school. Parents are too prone to think their children are (a) brilliant, (b) angels in behaviour. Teachers can get called to account by parents for the slightest suggestion to the contrary.

Pfbrownsey Have a couple of email addresses, one for work and a personal one, then you can just scrap the work one if needed and create a new one and the abusers are stopped.

Englishandinscotland Today GCHQ is warning IT users to regularly change passwords and email addresses.

Samuelcoldstream If I was a teacher I’d require a snailmail letter, not an email. Having hard evidence is useful if a problem arises. And snailmail requires more effort. I’d reply in like manner after the headie had approved my reply. Passing the buck!

andrew macaulay As an American teacher,

I am all too familiar with this issue. Our school email addresses are published on the school website. We have to post grades on an online grade book. Parents want us to post homework assignments etc. This is one factor that contributes to a 50 per cent attrition rate of teachers in the first five years of work. And are the students performing better? No!

Ragnar Working in a “customer”facing, front-line role, I can identify with this. Once a “customer” has your personal contact details, you’re doomed. They think they’ve bought you, not the service. You become the ‘friend’ they can contact 24/7, 365 to discuss their personal demands and expectations. And woe betide you if you don’t deliver! Management quizzed me, and were told exactly why I was no longer prepared to deal with work stuff at all hours.

choccywoccydoda Can they not just answer their emails at 3:30 when they have nothing else to do as all the kids have gone home then?

Damian Thirsty You must be joking! Teachers’ workloads these days are absolutely horrendous.

Sarah Bowman than 18 months after the bridge opened. Ministers have revealed that a total of 13 of 23 tasks that were incomplete when traffic started using the bridge in August 2017 are still being worked on.

The First Minister claimed it was the finest bridge in the world – however, she forgot to look further down the Forth and she would have seen the finest bridge in the world which was built around 125 years beforehand and never closed even during two world wars and was not built by the SNP.

Auldreeky

On time and under budget. Unlike Crossrail. Only the SNP deliver large infrastructure projects properly. Snagging is normal. Bridge is not closed.

Dickie Tea

“Snagging”. Noun. British: The process of checking a new building for minor faults that need to be rectified.” That is to say faults in what has been done. Not work unfinished or pieces of work not even started. SNP re-writing the dictionary, again.

Paulholyrood

Scottish Labour condemned the delays as “totally unacceptable”. Left to them they would still be talking about starting. Hypocrites.

Jim Thomas

Seem to remember Sturgeon saying “another project built on time”... but she didn’t say “but not finished”.

Jomydo “Completion of all the snagging work is still expected in October”. Oh, good. When does the bridge’s first ‘refurbishment’ begin? October? Are there still no plans to do anything with the FRB other than use it as a glorified bus lane?

Toosh The SNP spokeswoman says we have not thought that far ahead yet!

Stuart Andrew D Rankin