Deirdre Reynolds
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105 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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Well, he says he's sticking it to the establishment.
No, I, along with Jen, I probably would respectfully disagree.
And, you know, I was chatting about this with some teachers last night and one of them sent me back a 19 minute voice note that is unerrable.
She so vehemently disagreed with the sentiment.
You felt strongly about it?
Yeah, a little bit strongly.
I suppose the issue was a lot of people, unfortunately, maybe read your follow up statement.
tweet or X or whatever we're calling them now first as I did and I don't have any skin in the game because I don't have kids but even my blood was boiling at that and then when I went back and read your original message I said yeah but that obviously does make sense because the society has moved on and
For me, the only impact it really has on me is when I want to go to the gym in the morning, the classes are all kind of revolve around the school run.
So and my commute to work, you know, the traffic revolves around the school run.
But certainly, yeah, likewise, I have teacher friends who the amount of silent labour that they do, it's weekends, it's after hours.
And I would worry, as you say, Jen, that there is an expectation that teachers are now going to have to
to parent as well.
Well, they already do.
You know, they are effectively kind of being treated as childminders, I think, in some sense.
I take teenagers over young children any time, I'm afraid.
Not if you added a zero to the amount the primary school teachers get paid, would you pay me to do it?
Honestly, it's such a tough job.
And I just so much respect for you.
And it's different nowadays because when we were in primary school, we're all probably of a similar vintage.
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