Before you criticise - try to find out what it's like to be a teacher these days.
People who are familiar with what is involved with this career will realise that its not one that you can do well for more than 30 years. It's not one to stay in until you retire if you started young.
I believe there are statistics that show that when teachers retire they don't live much more than five years because they are exhausted and their bodies collapse.
It's a job people do because they get a lot of satisfaction from struggling against the odds doing a job that parents often don't do - giving students a purpose in life. In doing this it takes a lot out of the people that do it well.
Lets support those that give so much to the community and can give our children so much of their energy and sense of purpose.
Many of the problems in education are with the system ruled by politicians who have no idea what makes a good teacher.
Government behaviour like the present will discourage people from staying in teaching. Those with the qualities we admire will often find an alternative career doing something in society that far more satisfying than dealing with young people that are totally switched off because of an oppressive system.
If your children have a poor school, it could be that the excellent teachers have left during the last twenty years.
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