So as school budgets become increasingly inadequate, the new wheeze seems to be to make your experienced teachers’ lives so uncomfortable so that they quit and you can replace them with a much cheaper NQT.
“A survey by Teacher Tapp of 3,568 school staff found that 10 per cent were “confident” that teachers on the upper pay scale at their school had been encouraged to leave or had been made redundant to clear space for cheaper staff.”
Replacing experienced teachers with cheap support staff was also a measure recommended to a school by the DfE’s cost-cutting taskforce.
In what other profession would experience be so undervalued? Encourage your experienced heart surgeon to leave so she can be replaced by someone fresh out of medical school? People would soon spot the flaws in that plan, but when it’s teaching? ‘Oh but NQTs have so much enthusiasm’
As plans go, it also ignores the dwindling supply of NQTs. Teaching needs to hold onto its experienced teachers not get them to quit, because there aren’t enough teachers to go around as it is.
schoolsweek.co.uk/forced-out-the-experienced-teachers-losing-their-livelihoods-as-schools-cut-costs/
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noblegiraffe · 29/04/2019 11:29
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