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File on 4: Teacher stress

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runlikeagirl · 17/03/2015 20:16

On Radio 4 now, but will be on iplayer. Very interesting and depressing.

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rollonthesummer · 17/03/2015 21:00

Will listen tomorrow. Is it balanced and well-represented?

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runlikeagirl · 17/03/2015 21:12

I suppose it depends on your experience. They have a Head talking about how hard it is to recruit, a woman who was ill from stress the hospital initially thought she had meningitis.

It reflects much of my current experience and that of my teacher friends.

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rollonthesummer · 18/03/2015 11:17

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I've just listened-it's very interesting.

These gagging clauses are terrible :(

Loads of teachers are being got rid of on the quiet (the bit where that teacher says 'we can make all of this go away' and she left with some money in her pocket and a good reference) so there are no records documenting this. Who are they filling all these vacancies with-there's nobody around to apply!?

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runlikeagirl · 18/03/2015 20:01

In my experience NQTs that are more easily manipulated.

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granolamuncher · 24/03/2015 16:14

This alarming and moving programme is still available on iplayer.

Compromise agreements with their gagging clauses and agreed references destroy careers and destroy lives, as confirmed by these sad tales on a TES forum: community.tes.co.uk/tes_workplace_dilemmas/f/96/t/658323.aspx?pi2132219857=2

CAs get sold to vulnerable teachers by their unions as a way to " make all of this go away" but what they actually do is bring new and endless nightmares, forcing you to lie for the rest of your life about what happened to you and preventing you from whistle blowing about the conduct of the head and governors, so more teachers go on to suffer at their hands.

They're a bullies' and psychopaths' charter, allowing incompetent people to get rid of excellent staff of whom they've become jealous.

Serial sackings go unnoticed because each time the affected teacher has to lie and provide an agreed reason for leaving, which doesn't reflect badly on the boss, which is untrue, and which DfE guidance advises future employers to treat as a cover for child protection issues.

If teachers had unions that were ready to stand up for them, CAs would never have been permitted in the teaching profession. They're a disgrace.

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rollonthesummer · 24/03/2015 18:30

I agree. Compromise agreements are disguising how many teachers are being hounded out by utterly inept members of SMT.

I think non-teaching SMT-in their grossly swollen numbers-are largely to blame for many of the current problems in schools.

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