Going back post 40

[Brookville]

I've read, rather worryingly, on a few Staffroom posts here that schools are not keen on retaining or even employing teachers above 40. I'm currently on a sort-of a childcare break–I took 4 years off, went back for a bit, stopped again and am now thinking of finding a new post for Autumn 2016. I'm MFL with lots of experience but am I too expensive at ups2? Will they only want NQTs or younger staff?

What is triple marking? Never come across that, or even double marking.

Triple marking is: you mark and set targets, advice, 'even better if' etc, they respond (usually in the purple pen of progress) and you respond back to their response.
Sounds absolutely ridiculous written down but totally prevalent in most schools nationwide.

I say this to not to be smug

I have read a few of your posts saying pretty much that 'teaching is ok if you do supply'. I agree, but I think that permanent teaching is absolutely horrific at the moment. Unsustainable. It also isn't going to work to have everyone on supply. I wouldn't want my kids to have supply teachers for every single lesson-would you?

Something's got to give.

I've just read this BBC article about there not being enough nurses-it sounds a similar situation to teaching. They've tried to save money but now there's not enough nurses, they're scrapping the bursaries to train and the loans will probably deter people from training to be a nurse.

This comment from the Royal college of nursing was interesting though

"We've a long way to go. We've got to catch up on this for some time. But equally, we have to keep the nurses we've already got. It's great to train people, it's great to bring people in, but our experienced nurses are leaving."They're leaving because they're overtired - it's a bit of a vicious circle."

This seems to suggest that older nurses are leaving because they are tired and fed up but in teaching, the older, more expensive teachers are actually being forced out against their will, being told they're rubbish and put on capability/a support plan.

Does that also happen in nursing, does anyone know?

The comments from Nicky Morgan and Nick Gibb rarely mention what to do to keep the experienced teachers. Why's it different?