We have 10 staff leaving in May...

[TheSnowFairy]

They're not even staying til July. It's getting worse, isn't it?

21 left at DHs school last year. Over 30 have already handed their notice in for this year, quite a few without jobs lined up. The head left at Easter and their replacement has already stood down. DH has a job interview on Weds, fingers crossed he will be leaving too. Yet SLT refuse to believe that there is a problem.

I'm not involved in education, other than as a parent. There has been a lot of turnover in my girls' primary, some for the better, but a lot of dedicated teachers retiring or leaving, going to supply teaching. It must be so hard being one of those remaining.

We have three teachers leaving out of 14. Two are SLT. Two are the only two males we have on staff.

I teach in secondary. In September 2016 we will only have 15 teachers left who are here this year. This is the worst we've ever had it.

We are in special measures and converting to an academy, so kind of think normal notice periods are not applying atm it is not a great place to be

7 teachers leaving this year and 7 left last year in my primary. I am surrounded by bewildered NQTs and agency staff sobbing at every turn.

When was an NQT-I had a massive staff of experienced teachers to support me. These NQTs have one part-time experienced teacher to help the lot of them!

It's just crumbling around our ears.

I go into lots of primary schools for my job and the system is in chaos. So many - mainly academies - are being staffed with NQT's or Teach First's with hardly any experienced staff to guide them. It is a disaster

My daughters infant school used to have v low turnover of staff (part of what attracted me to it) but lost most of them this last year or two. Lots of nqts or v young staff

I don't like it.

11 leaving in July at our school, I'm staying for another year but if it's anything like the last 2 it'll be my last. I'm a TA and feel I can't do my job properly as the demands outweigh both my training and the time I have to do them. I thought I'd eventually train to teach but very much doubt that now.

They've halved the number of tas across the four schools in our trust for September.

Loads leaving ours. I'll be leaving in December after a brief return from maternity leave, and can't wait!

Was in a secondary school today, London suburbs where nearly half are leaving, and two so far also have interviews this week, so may tender resignation before 31st. One other teacher who does not have an interview told me at lunchtime she may just resign anyway. (As a supply teacher often get confided in as I am not part of the school establishment.
Minimal interest in the ads the school have put out for replacements ( they just just changing the deadlines in the ads in the how that no-one will notice.
Bit... if we vote 'Remain' there will be plenty of EU teachers (speaking perfect English) from acceding countries - Albania, Macedonia, Turkey etc to fill the gaps - maybe one reason the gvt is so keen that we remain...

We have a Romanian supply teacher in our dept at the moment. She speaks 5 languages fluently and is excellent.

So no worries. The exodus will be filled with well-qualified Romanians.
No prob with resignations - crisis averted!

We're not awash with e.g. Polish teachers filling the gaps, why suspect that Romanians would be any more likely to want to teach here?

As well as this - How many people are like me? I have always, forever wanted to be a teacher, it has always been my childhood dream.
I'm not touching it with a ten foot barge pole now. I was on that path and now I'm not even remotely interested with training anymore because I know from the inside how horrific it is. It's such a crisis!

Yup - I wanted to retrain as a psychologist, did the initial degree and now I have kids its all too awkward to commute and retrain.

I wish I'd done that (or anythinng else) other than teaching first time around.

I have spent the last few years working in early years while doing a science degree with the OU, I wanted to go into teaching when I graduated.

I am a secondary school governor so I have some kind of idea what it is like in schools at the moment (although I realise, however friendly and approachable to staff I try to be I'll always be treated with caution) and I know now it is not something I want to do. The children are (for the most part) great but the ever changing and increasing expectations are unrealistic.

I am a parent and I used to be a primary teacher. For a while I thought about converting to secondary maths (i have the quals and was a maths specialist at primary), but the threads on here put me off.

My dd (yr 7) is already feeling the strain of inexperienced staff and I am doing a fair bit of teaching her at home. I am happy to do so - I miss teaching weirdo but I feel so sorry for the staff left in situations they cannot feel comfortable in.

Will I end up home edding her and ds (about to move up) completely do you think?

Head of local school has regularly sourced teachers from Ireland and Canada, and is now picking up teachers from Greece.

Don't worry its all part of the Tory plan to remove LEAs, underfund schools to the point of collapse and remove any need for a teaching qualification.

Don't worry its all part of the Tory plan to remove LEAs, underfund schools to the point of collapse and remove any need for a teaching qualification.

Agree

Thing is, removing any need for a teaching qualification doesn't square with their new more rigorous tests, GCSEs, A-levels.

Do they really think these higher standards can be reached by employing anyone off the street with a pulse?

But they don't want higher standards - they want you to fail to reach higher standards.

Standard privatisation model - underfund/create problem, demonise system, sell it off (ie enforced academisation by the back door).

I left teaching about ten years ago it sounds like it has got worse. I had considered returning but it sounds horrendous. I taught physics & Chemistry I guess there is a shortage, I expect with all the changes and everthing my skills would be out of date and impossible to go back anyway

Selling it off won't magically create extra teachers though, that's the problem.

vicki if you've experience of teaching physics then they'd rip your arm off to hire you. Out of date knowledge/skills is better than nothing which is what a lot of schools are facing.