Argh seriously, seriously considering leaving teaching

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If you're going to try and be flippant, at least get your facts straight - teachers are paid pro rata. It also applies to other educational posts which aren't required during the holidays, which is why a few years ago I couldn't afford to go for a job I really wanted in a school, despite the salary being nominally quite a bit more than I was on at the time!

 

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Aren't inset days days where teachers work but the kids have days off?

 

Had to read all that 3 times before it sunk in. Unbelievable interference in a professional trying to do her job.

 

You could always do this..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE1oPIVytDs

I'm still not sure why we came back but this was the school our kids were at when we lived there.

From pre-school to Y12 all on one campus.

Was a great school.

 

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You only live once, JamDrop. If you've had enough then try something else, plenty of similarly paying jobs out there that allow you to "clock-off" as it were.

Money isn't everything though, there are a lot of things about my job that I value a lot more than the figures printed on my wage slip.

 

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Try to get a job in a private school where the kids will be better behaved and actually want to learn, probably less interference from the government too.

Or in a private school abroad, Canada or America maybe.

 

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Feel for you Jamdrop.
I managed 35 years before deciding enough was enough.
Successive governments have made the job utterly impossible.
I recognize everything you and others on the thread have said.
I was lucky starting my career in the late Seventies, before all the interference and OFSTED.
The irony of it all its that they preach the mantra that "Every Child Is Different", they then try to ensure that you put them all in the same tick box !
Gove took Education back to Dickensian times, best not get me started on him and the damage he has done with his emphasis on rote learning, memorising facts ...but then of course, this government doesn't want a generation of critical thinkers, oh no, that would threaten their own position.
I had some of the happiest, most fulfilling days ever in teaching and have memories to last a lifetime.
To see the profession now, on its knees, hurts unbelievably.
So much of the interference, it's ideological, rooted in Tory belief, they privatised our once, much vaunted Education system, 'profit before child', changed the Curriculum, made OFSTED like a secret police, introduced change afer change after change and just expected teachers to get on with it.
The whole system is an unworkable shambles.
That's why the profession is losing so many teachers. Teachers who come into the profession full of ideals and wanting to make a difference before they realise that there's so much they can't control, there's hardly a place now for the innovative teacher!
I left five years early because I stopped believing in what I was doing.
I'm glad I did.
My thoughts and sympathies with all in such a wonderful profession that has been totally destroyed by political, spiteful intervention.
Allow teachers to teach, it's about children not tick boxes and data collection!

 

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All that trendy teaching wasn't working though, it was turning out people who were barely literate and numerate, clearly something had to be done.

Seems to me teachers are a bunch of lefties who always have a strop on when the Tories are in power, I can remember all the strikes in the 80s.

 

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Weirdly there are a lot of people on here who were taught between the 70s and 90s who can read and write perfectly well. There have also been a lot of younger posters who have come through the Ofsted style of teaching who can't string a sentence together

 

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Supertyke, we agree!
Can you believe it?
Miracles do happen !

 

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That's because the Tories are notorious for taking teaching back to Dickensian times.
It's ideological.
They do it every time.
Is rote learning and memorising facts the way forward?

 

Triple that Stahlrost and you'll get the idea!
It is unbelievable.

 

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There are basics everyone should know so memorising these cant be bad. Otherwise education is all about learning to think logically to solve problems, something that clearly went over Mr. Corbyns head.

 

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A shame that correct use of punctuation seems not to have been effectively taught in some cases.

 

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I. An engineer, we don't do punctuation

 

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I'm, bloody predictive text

 

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What's Corbyn got to do with it?

 

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Just an example of education gone wrong

 

read thw whole post for once

before you start

 

And there was me thinking this thread was full of sensible posts

Displaying about as much knowledge you displayed in the post about teaching the other day. Opinions are fine as long a they are informed. Yours on this subject aren't.
Try showing a bit of empathy to the original poster who is having a hard time and is not exactly showing traits of looney left wing tendencies. Come to think of it I have not met many teacher or ex teachers (including my wife who taught for 35 years and empathises with everything teachers on here are saying who are not apolitical. The vast majority go in to teaching to try and make a difference.

Muppet!!