Teacher leaving - next week

[inappropriatelyemployed]

Newsletter on Friday says DS's class teacher is leaving next Friday.

She is a NQT and is moving on to another job.

Is it usual for teachers to leave with just a week's notice?!

Nope. Teachers have to give a term of notice.

It IS usual for schools to keep the information from parents though, to 'protect' the teacher from annoyed parents.

NQTs should not move in the middle of their year generally speaking as they undergo assessment.

I would have thought other issues were afoot there...

Yes, teachers must give a term's notice and parents do not get told.

Thanks. Is that a term as in a half term or full term?

The rules are you have to resign a half term in advance, and you can only leave at the end of the Xmas, Easter or Summer term. Anything else involves a lot of negotiation between the schools involved.
I think she's dropped out of teaching, and the new job may well not be as a teacher.

For example, if you want to leave at the end of the summer term, your resignation has to be in no later than 31st May.

It's related but not teaching in a school.

So she's quit teaching. It happens, and if she's stressed and unhappy or failing then the school will have helped her to leave.

I sympathise. She was a bit of a sick note so I suspected problems.

It's a split year class with Y6 children taking SATs so maybe it was thought better to go earlier than leave it til Easter

Teaching has a very high dropout rate in the first few years. Around half of all NQTs quit, and a third more within the next 5 years.

That's very sad. It is a lot of pressure

That's a very civillised response from you, inappropriatelyemployed, as a teacher I appreciate it. The NQT might have other things going on in her life, or she might just not be coping with the job.
I hope your DS manages the changes. And that you have a SENCO prepared to facilitate.

I look at these teachers and I can't even remember what it was like to be that young let alone control a class, teach and deal with the demands of very different parents. I really do have every sympathy. Expectations are so high and praise is so rarely given.

Absolutely agree. I really feel for teachers and don't know how on earth they do it