I thought I'd try and equal the number of threads about the Philpots with ones about teaching?
Why oh why does everyone have to have an opinion on teaching? Why is it ok to say 'well if you don't like it, get another job?' Don't people want teachers to teach their children or is everyone planning on home edding?
One argument is that there are other jobs out there that are just as shit. Maybe we could just list the jobs that have all of the following:
A similar level of unrelenting pressure
National expectation & judgement of results
Responsibility for future success of the next generation
Constant derision from service users ie parents/ public
Systematic devaluing of the profession by their employer ie government
Similar annual hours
Same post-graduate qualification level
Same salary
Then all the teachers can say yes, they are shit jobs too. And all the other people can be pleased that the teachers have acknowledged they don't have the only shit job in the world and theirs is just one of them.
Jobs have to fit all of the above criteria or they don't count.
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To ask for a list of jobs that mean that teachers have never had it so good and should stop complaining?
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chicaguapa · 04/04/2013 20:26
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