I’ve been warning colleagues of these sort of developments for the past few years…
Teachers’ unions today attacked a plan that would see staff answering email queries from their GCSE pupils outside school hours.
The government is to pilot its “e-mentoring” idea next year as an alternative to traditional study leave, which ministers want abolished.
But teachers’ unions said the scheme was “completely unreasonable” […] Chris Keates, the general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), called for an urgent meeting with officials to discuss the idea. She said she was “extremely concerned” by the plan, which seemed to run against government promises to cut teachers’ workload.
“It is completely unreasonable to expect teachers to be on-call, online out of hours.