Actual teaching is not the main part of the job anymore. Teachers are being used as social workers, child minders, parents, filling in the gaps where others are not doing those roles. All of that is wrapped up in red tape.
I’m not a teacher but I looked into it a few years ago. After having our own kids late in life I got to see the hell that teachers go through and many leave for new careers.
All of this on top of the debt that people take on to pay for the training, on top of the debt taken on for a degree.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that this is happening.
100% agree on this. The societal backstops get underpaid, then every other resource gets gutted, and every social problem comes crashing down on them.
Honestly, I’d consider teaching, and probably wouldn’t even mind doing the pastoral side of things, if it just paid OK, and wasn’t treated like “wow, you get to teach? And you get 6 weeks off in summer? Lucky!”
Actual teaching is not the main part of the job anymore. Teachers are being used as social workers, child minders, parents, filling in the gaps where others are not doing those roles. All of that is wrapped up in red tape.
I’m not a teacher but I looked into it a few years ago. After having our own kids late in life I got to see the hell that teachers go through and many leave for new careers.
All of this on top of the debt that people take on to pay for the training, on top of the debt taken on for a degree.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that this is happening.
100% agree on this. The societal backstops get underpaid, then every other resource gets gutted, and every social problem comes crashing down on them.
Honestly, I’d consider teaching, and probably wouldn’t even mind doing the pastoral side of things, if it just paid OK, and wasn’t treated like “wow, you get to teach? And you get 6 weeks off in summer? Lucky!”