Teachers are one of the most undervalued sections of UK (and all) society
Created | Updated Mar 16, 2002
Teachers have a really bad time in the UK today.
They are blamed for bad results, often the focus of attacks by angry parents who feel that they should turn "naughty little johnny" into a chruch going, choir-singing piller of society while at the same time undermining everything that they try to do.
Their professionalism is called into question at each and every turn with senior management (government) under the unbelievable misapprehension that they know better than the profesionals how best to do their job. Forcing well-trained, poorly-paid, badly motivated, undervalued individuals to teach this way and not that only months after telling them to teach that way not this can only lead to a massive move away from the teaching "profession" into ... well anything else really. Oh!
I got out.
I'm a statistic now.
I'm part of the problem. No I am not. I'm a symptom (bit like a bad rash) the government are the only ones who can deal with the problem.
Leave the teachers alone so that they can get on with teaching. Stop worrying about methods and league tables and grammer/comprehensive and parent-power and targets. Teaching is not a business and cannot be run as one. Teachers have an awesome responsibility, let's not make it worse by piling on a mountain of other stuff on top.
Are teachers treated any better in other parts of the world?
Should I go back?
Could I go back?
Do I want to?
They are blamed for bad results, often the focus of attacks by angry parents who feel that they should turn "naughty little johnny" into a chruch going, choir-singing piller of society while at the same time undermining everything that they try to do.
Their professionalism is called into question at each and every turn with senior management (government) under the unbelievable misapprehension that they know better than the profesionals how best to do their job. Forcing well-trained, poorly-paid, badly motivated, undervalued individuals to teach this way and not that only months after telling them to teach that way not this can only lead to a massive move away from the teaching "profession" into ... well anything else really. Oh!
I got out.
I'm a statistic now.
I'm part of the problem. No I am not. I'm a symptom (bit like a bad rash) the government are the only ones who can deal with the problem.
Leave the teachers alone so that they can get on with teaching. Stop worrying about methods and league tables and grammer/comprehensive and parent-power and targets. Teaching is not a business and cannot be run as one. Teachers have an awesome responsibility, let's not make it worse by piling on a mountain of other stuff on top.
Are teachers treated any better in other parts of the world?
Should I go back?
Could I go back?
Do I want to?
