Person 1: But how can this be? Teaching is so easy with all those long holidays and their pay is so good.
Person 2: So why don’t you become a teacher?
Person 1: …………….
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Aside from that, something clearly needs to be done to help recruit teachers and help them stay in the job. We deserve to give our children the best education possible and in most cases, that isn’t happening.
they’ll just lower the requirements to be a teacher and call anyone arguing against elitist.
Not surprising. The pay is crap and you’re surrounded by a bunch of careless, rowdy germ carriers.
Most of those careless, rowdy germ carriers don’t want to be there either.
Is anyone surprised ? The pay isn’t really that good. You’ve got what 30 other people’s kids to look after at least 1 of them will be an utter arsehole. Constantly buying shit the school can’t supply because it dosent have the funds.
Yeah like fuck would I want to do that.
Aren’t most of them academy’s now too. Meaning they’re run like a business and not a school, so cheap labour is the way forward.
I’d never be a secondary school teacher anyway, u know what I was like and would lose my job.
Getting out of teaching (secondary school STEM subject) was literally the best decision of my adult life.
The kids were alright. You had to be very patient and firm with them, but it was usually quite enjoyable.
The pay as well… Don’t get me wrong, it is good money for people who are either fresh out of uni or having worked only NMW jobs, but if you have a STEM degree then there’s a good chance that you can literally walk into an entry-level job that pays more than what you’d get after 5-10 years of teaching (and not get regularly treated like you’re some paedo who hasn’t been caught yet).
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They could offer me 200k a year and I still wouldn’t dust off my PGCE and take the plunge back into teaching.
So things were actually *worse* five years ago than they are now?
Considering we have had 2 years of Covid, and everything else, that seems pretty astonishing
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Person 1: But how can this be? Teaching is so easy with all those long holidays and their pay is so good.
Person 2: So why don’t you become a teacher?
Person 1: …………….
​
Aside from that, something clearly needs to be done to help recruit teachers and help them stay in the job. We deserve to give our children the best education possible and in most cases, that isn’t happening.
they’ll just lower the requirements to be a teacher and call anyone arguing against elitist.
Not surprising. The pay is crap and you’re surrounded by a bunch of careless, rowdy germ carriers.
Most of those careless, rowdy germ carriers don’t want to be there either.
Is anyone surprised ? The pay isn’t really that good. You’ve got what 30 other people’s kids to look after at least 1 of them will be an utter arsehole. Constantly buying shit the school can’t supply because it dosent have the funds.
Yeah like fuck would I want to do that.
Aren’t most of them academy’s now too. Meaning they’re run like a business and not a school, so cheap labour is the way forward.
I’d never be a secondary school teacher anyway, u know what I was like and would lose my job.
Getting out of teaching (secondary school STEM subject) was literally the best decision of my adult life.
The kids were alright. You had to be very patient and firm with them, but it was usually quite enjoyable.
But it was the teaching staff that irked me the most. Keeping it short, but it was like working in [Moss Eisley Spaceport](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcb4_QwP6fE).
The pay as well… Don’t get me wrong, it is good money for people who are either fresh out of uni or having worked only NMW jobs, but if you have a STEM degree then there’s a good chance that you can literally walk into an entry-level job that pays more than what you’d get after 5-10 years of teaching (and not get regularly treated like you’re some paedo who hasn’t been caught yet).
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They could offer me 200k a year and I still wouldn’t dust off my PGCE and take the plunge back into teaching.
So things were actually *worse* five years ago than they are now?
Considering we have had 2 years of Covid, and everything else, that seems pretty astonishing