Here’s the hard truth parents: To us, your child is work

I am a mother of five. I say this often, mostly in the hope that one day I shall say it and it won’t give me a jolt of surprise. The reason I say it now is to illustrate a very important point. Teachers have lives!

This is something that seems to bypass a lot of people, especially parents. They bring us their little and not so little darlings and expect us to be fully and even more invested in them than they are. So today I will be a bit stern to my fellow parents, in the hope of making the lives of my fellow teachers easier. Your children are work for us. That is the plain truth.