Parents targeting teachers with ‘aggressive’ emails since Covid outbreak

NASUWT say tutors being contacted 24 hours of the day as job parameters become blurred amid pandemic

Parents now feel they can access teachers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and have got into the habit of firing off aggressive and accusatory" emails at any time of the day or night, a teaching conference has heard.

Teachers said that since the outbreak of the pandemic, the parameters of their job have become blurred, and parents now feel they can just jump on the phone" or go on to social media to directly contact their child's teacher outside school hours.