Why do they always miss the point?!

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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.

What would happen if a head teacher just stopped all this and 'released' teachers to simply teach?

Presumably Ofsted, special measures, academisation - or what if they were already an academy or academy chain?

I want my children to go to school and love learning like I did. I want them taught by well-paid, motivated, inspirational teachers who love their subject.

Hahhahahahahhahahhahahhaahhhahaaaaaa!!!!! That's a dream!!

If the results were not as good as expected, They would fail ofsted, go Into special measures, the head and slt would be removed and they would haemorrhage students. If results were ok, they may not fail ofsted.

The situation is very bad.
I am retired and run workshops for schools as a volunteer. Most of us are retired teachers, there because we love working with children, but not one of us would want to go back to working as a teacher and not one could recommend it as a career to a young person. How sad is that?

I find myself saying 'yes, yes and yes!' to posts on here- so true.

My latest observations are that it is not worth a school trying to get 'outstanding' because the pressure on staff and pupils is simply not worth it and once they have achieved it the pressure is even higher to stay there. Much better to have a less pressured, happy 'good enough' school.

Friends who were Head teachers all retired early- they had to spend their time in the office 'number crunching' - it wasn't what they wanted to do in the job.

As a volunteer I meet a lot of teachers from different primary schools and morale is terrible across the board.