comprehensive school system struggling to run

[ollie989898]

Many of the NQT's seem to think they can do it 9 to 5 and enjoy the holidays & pension.

Then when evenings and weekends are taken up with planning, marking and phonecalls to parents they soon lose interest, which is how we get to a career average of 5 years and management/leadership positions for anyone who sticks it longer than 5 years.

This is true of many professions. The public/keen new entrants of it, particularly in medicine, do not appreciate the extra hours that will be worked but for which you may not be paid for.

 

[ollie989898]

Back when I was in senior school I can’t think of a single teacher that left in the 7 years I was there (obviously there may have been some younger teachers that did) but to many of them it was a vocation
They had respect from us and they gave us respect back, as pupils
Discipline was enforced and we respected the boundaries
I think today’s schools are much harder on teachers as there was a no respect anymore

None of my teachers left the whole time I was in school except for maternity leave for one of them.

 

[Johnnyboxer]

None of my teachers left the whole time I was in school except for maternity leave for one of them.

Those were the days, most of mine wore caps & gowns to classes - it's was their life's vocation to teach young people and they were very good at it too

 

[SteveHants]

None of my teachers left the whole time I was in school except for maternity leave for one of them.

My mum was a primary school teacher (moving into being a deputy head when I was young and a head when I was in my teens) all of her career.

She started off teaching in primaries in some of the roughest parts of Salford - can still tell you how many children she's been bitten by in her career.

Has never been in favour of hitting children and has never struck a child (at work - I don't count apparently).
It's not the kids - kids don't change. They pay is low and they are put under more and more pressure from government targets, interference and poor leadership in the face of this.

 

[britishblue]

I got the belt at least once a week at school. It didnt really hurt.

You are lucky. I remember when in PE this lad landed badly doing the high jump and swore. Our PE teacher who was a Scottish cap for cricket and a first division rugby player at the peak of fitness gave Bobby 3 of the best. I swear he was still howling over an hour later with bruises all the way up his fore arm. When I think about it now I can only say what a sadistic basta*d he was and completely unacceptable!