Five teachers have left DD's school including two of her GCSE teachers!

[JufusMum]

DD has told me that five of her teachers have left her school including her German and her Maths teacher, the head of English and both pastoral care teachers.

She goes in year 11 in September and I'm worried about continuity for her German and Maths GCSEs. Apparently her new Maths teacher is the teacher who has previously only taught Business. Should I be worried?

School is dying on it's arse and she doesn't intend to stay there for 6th form.

rebelnotaslave

How would you expect someone to get home?
They would be allowed to go and get there belongings. normally with an escort.

Usually they would wait until the end of the lesson so that there are no pupils there. And they wouldn't be allowed to talk to the pupils and say they were leaving/had been sacked.

rebelnotaslave

yes, "Usually" but there are many things to take into account.

Such as a pissed off head who wants them off premises ASAP.

My daughter's English teacher left the school at the end of her Year 10. Until that point, she was on track for an A or A*. She got a B and I believe that was the reason.

My daughter's English teacher left the school at the end of her Year 10. Until that point, she was on track for an A or A. She got a B and I believe that was the reason.*

That's hardly fair. Teachers need to be allowed a life. There is always a class to leave and if your DD was capable of a A at the end of yr 10 she was capable of an A in yr 11. At what point did it become the sole responsibility of the teacher?

Thing is, secondary teachers do tend to have exam classes whenever they leave. I left several classes of year 10s and year 12s. Had I stayed until they'd finished, I'd have left a different lot...

Several years ago my DDs A level history teacher walked out on the penultimate day of the summer term. No notice. Came into the class and announced he was going. Just walked out. That was totally unprofessional and school struggled to recruit and it did make a difference because the replacement was unqualified and hadn't "taught" for 10 years. Utterly dreadful for all concerned.

Several years ago my DDs A level history teacher walked out on the penultimate day of the summer term. No notice. Came into the class and announced he was going. Just walked out.

clearly for him his health was worth more then his career.

I suspect it was the other way around. They didn't struggle to recruit because he walked out.

More likely he was being treated like shit, which was both the reason he walked out, and the reason they stuggled to recruit.

Foxyloxy1plus1
Every time I've left a school I've always left exam classes because when I've been in 11-16 I've had year 10 and 11 and when I've been in 11-18 I've had 3 or 4 groups in y10,11,12,13.

A child who has worked hard through school, works well and is on track for an A is able of getting an A independent of who teaches them for the final 6 months of a course (because realistically that's all it is in y11. By March, if not earlier, it's just exam papers and revision).
Much as I would love to claim that the years my results were off the scale good were because I'm awesome, those spikes happened because those STUDENTS did everything I asked of them and worked their arses off. Im a great teacher, but i wasn't a better teacher that year.