Ex Teachers - Why Did You Quit Teaching?
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Ex teachers - why did you quit teaching?
44,000 left the profession last year and the schools minister puts most of the blame on poor behaviour of children.
Source: www.thesun.co.uk/news/23125157/naughty-kids-teachers-quit-job-retention-schools-minister/
Well come on teachers don't go to school to get abuse and most get it on a daily basis so no wonder there quilting
My granddaughter is leaving because she is sick of all the paperwork and out of teaching work which most people seem to think is their own free time. They are required to phone the parents of every child at least once a month.
She is in a very good school and mostly the children are well behaved and want to learn.
However, a friends teacher sister has taken early retirement due to the atrocious behaviour of most of the kids. No one can discipline kids these days and boy, do they know it. This is one area where I believe we need to go back to punishing bad behaviour before it is too late and the school system breaks down.
Lynibis I remember when I was in high school I was about 15 and the science teacher once asked me to help him mark his students papers. He gave me all their booklets and the answer sheet and all I had to do was give a tick or cross. I was absolutely thrilled to help him but now thinking back, He must have had a lot of work to do teaching all the different year groups and sets.
A friend of mine's daughter spent four years training ( three for her degree and an extra one teacher training) to be a Teacher, but quit after only four months , as she was unable to handle the children she was teaching ,she now works in a local printers shop.
Mango4 Wow that happened quite fast! Was it a primary school or secondary?
SamGoodship It was an inner city secondary school, she hated it from day one. She made it through one term until Christmas and never went back . Of course she was only 23 herself, so some of the pupils weren't that much younger. Personally I think she made the wrong choice of school /area to start out in.
As someone who works in education I love my job but it's hard. I had a 6 year old on Friday tell me he was going to kick me in the sh*t and told me to go bit*h. I've been punched, slapped, kicked, bitten repeatedly. Had shoes, books and other items thrown at me. I've been spat at had kids ram things like trikes at me on purpose to hurt me. Food thrown at me. I've colleagues have knifes pulled on them. This is all by primary school kids. So you want to know why people are leaving. Before anyone mentions kids with needs such as autism some can be linked to it but theres some that is behaviour and add in that education has no funding and schools are expected to be inclusive but with no extra funds to pay staff or give any staff the correct training it's to much.
Jerseydrew I know that the inclusion of children with LD and those on the spectrum within mainstream schools was devised as a modern and empathetic approach to education but these children and their families have been sold a lie. It's time to radically rethink how we teach children that's have significant challenges.
Jerseydrew Unbelievable what goes on in some primary schools. I assumed some of these parents are on a certain type of benefit which might explain their children's behaviour.
comriegold the idea is great but dreamt up by people in an office who have no idea what it's like in practice or don't care. They expect those on the front line to somehow cope and it be perfect. The truth is all that's happening is kids are being failed. Staff are being failed. It's awful. Whole families being failed. It's not ok
Being dragged up and lack of disicipline is to blame. Children rule the roost now.
We are in a world where you aren't able to reprimand children. School children know that there is nothing that can be done and that they can do whatever they want without recourse - so what should we all expect? I am surprised that we have any teachers left at all. This lack of discipline can't be sustained long term as the whole system will break down and it doesn't teach children anything about how the world works and what they can expect when they go out and get a job.
Children need boundaries, they will always push them but that is to be expected.
I remember when kids used to notoriously act up really bad with supply teachers and even the usual ones. Some would cry and some would even leave.
There seems to be a perception that teaching is a cushy job where they start at 8 and finish at 3, with lots of holiday time aswell.
Anyone that’s been around teachers knows that’s not the reality at all, they spend a lot of time planning lessons and marking. Both my parents were teachers and I remember they were always working during the holidays.
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