Gove. When will he go?

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Things are unravelling for our Michael. What do you think will become of him? If he goes I will hold a party

All one ever needs to know about teachers can be found on this thread.

Well, JaneParker, I do agree with you.

What I have identified from this thread is a group of passionate teachers (here I refer to the ones currently teaching in state education). They care about what they do. As has been pointed out, they have very poor starting salaries, and yet they go in day after day trying to think of creative ways to educate our children within the shackles of a restrictive and distrustful education system which gives no respect whatsoever to teachers understanding of either their jobs or their pupils.

I am so grateful to all those teachers who keep working despite the horrendous education system and the NC.

I myself learnt a huge amount less in school, particularly in my primary school. It took me much longer to learn to read, I'm sure my maths probably wasn't as good, and I'm pretty sure I knew a lot less facts (I certainly never did times tables). We had time to explore ideas, to come up with our own projects - the learning potential of these would probably be defined as zero in the current climate. But what I gained from my education was a profound passion for learning. I have a PhD now. Thanks to my factually useless, grammatically rubbish and totally inspiring primary education.

I often wish I could go back and thank my primary school teachers in particular.

So, JaneParker it is nice to know that someone else values the passion and commitment of teachers, and the fact that they won't sit back and let some moron ruin my children's future.

p.s. I loved Of Mice and Men when I read it for GCSE English

Just to add JaneParker I really should have said I partly agree with you. I do think that there is some good evidence of the passionate nature of many teachers. But, I must admit, I do think it is a little bit unrealistic to suggest that you can learn everything you need to know about any group of human beings from a Mumsnet thread. Whilst Mumsnet is a useful source of information, any good teacher will point out that you need to consult a wide variety of sources of information and spend time gaining a thorough understanding of a topic before passing judgement.

But as Janeparker did not use state schools and has not had a child going through national exams since Gove's changes really started to bite ...... her knowledge of what makes teachers tick is somewhat limited.

No, life isn't fair.

It is up to us collectively to make it fair, or at least fairer. I don't like living in an unfair society, myself.