To think that teachers should have a sound grasp of spelling and grammar?

[2kidsintow]

I know this is a forum, and that punctuation is used to a greater or lesser extent by various posters because of the more informal nature of the media and that auto-corect can be responsible for a lot of errors if you don't proof read. However, I'm surprised at posts I've read that have garmmatical errors in. The one that sticks in my head at the moment is the 'you and I' rule. A few teacher posters had put 'me and my colleague' or 'me and my boss' on a thread I've just been reading. Is it dialect in some areas to use this phrasing, or just incorrect?

'John and me' is correct if it is accusative.
So many pretentious people seem to think it always has to be 'and I' to be correct. No it is not 'dialect'.
When you have brushed up your own grammar and so on, come back to us.

And the working conditions. To name just a few things.

In some schools, the criteria for a maths teacher is a pulse and a clean enhanced DBS

It's true that conditions are poor, but I was trying to address the historical reason for the acceptance of less-than-glowing candidates in teaching. It has an ignoble reputation of being the last resort: those that can, do; those that can't, teach. Successive governments haven't helped with their suggestions of mums' armies, ex-soldiers and defunct bankers to sort out education. It's amazing there are as many good ones as there are.

Certainly the hounding of teachers, their denigration in the press, and the micromanagement of their work has made even a fat pay-packet unlikely to be an inducement. Now that teachers have to pay more into their pensions, to get less out and access it later, the extrinsic attractions are much diminished.

The historical reason is that it used to be mainly women. They didn't need to be paid as much because they were women, and single, do they had no family to support. It was seen as an enhanced childminder role I expect.

All your points are very valid in that post above echt (IMO).