Yesterday's news was that 50% of teachers wanted to leave the profession within 2 years and today's is saying that with swelling pupil numbers and a recruitment crisis-things are not looking good.
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Why then, is Nicky Morgan banging on about teaching being as popular as ever and all we need to do is pay a little bursary to encourage the 'brightest and the best graduates' in?!
Did she read any of those thousands of replies to the Teacher Workload survey?? Money has very little to do with it!
Why don't they listen to the complaints about the time consuming nature of the job which actually could be changed? Marking, in particular is what is taking up great wodges of my time at the moment-I write loads, they write back to me and I comment in a different colour. I'm not their pen pal, FFS. Simple changes could very easily be made.
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rollonthesummer · 05/10/2015 23:01
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