Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
Well it was....this was a small primary school whereas I'm guessing you governed a larger secondary school? Don't know if that makes a difference.

IIRC (and it was maybe 20 years ago) the context was setting up holiday clubs across summer and looking for teachers (and TA's) to run them as "extra hours". Most had other work commitments.

But in general as chair of finance, salaries was maybe the biggest discussion points as it was a huge %age of revenue
Hmmm…so we’ve gone from ‘I thought MOST teachers had second jobs’ to…20 years ago we struggled to find teachers and TA’s to staff holiday clubs.
As I’m sure you know the situation for TA’s is very different from teachers. Unlike teachers, the former are not ‘salaried’ throughout the year and seeking alternative employment throughout the summer is consequently not uncommon, they may therefore have made other longstanding arrangements.

Beyond that I’m amazed that, in a small primary school you were awarded the somewhat grandiose title of Chair of Finance and I also suspect you may have misinterpreted commitments as ‘work commitments’. Many teachers have ‘commitments’ during the summer but they are more typically of the holiday or child care variety - also applicable to TA’s - and a very far cry from demonstrating your initial claim that MOST teachers have second jobs.

It seems our two accountants both, somewhat surprisingly, seem to struggle with the concept of ‘most’.