Katharine Birbalsingh discusses job crisis hitting the teaching industry as employees plan to leave

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• JO

  @johnnyboyvan · 2 years ago

  I love that she shares the truth. Behaviour is out of control!! The expectations put on teachers is insane. 😮

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• EQ

  @equalitypeace1695 · 3 years ago

  Kids and parents have too much power . They think it’s a master and slave relationship.

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• PE

  @pennytopfield5713 · 4 years ago

  Spot on. When I had a disruptive pupil and chatted with my colleagues and found many times we all had problems with the same pupil - yet when we went to senior management they always turned the tables to suggest that you were doing the job badly. What are you doing wrong? - was their attitude. The pupils who learnt and cooperated with you - (the vast proportion) were ignored and the focus was on your faults and failings. The fact that a group of teachers had similar problems with the same pupil was ignored. With such senior management’s abrogation of responsibility - I’m sure drives many teachers out - especially beginners.

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• KH

  @KH-kl7qm · 4 years ago

  Absolute joke of a job. I am now an engineer earning double with half the stress

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• GO

  @goodlookinouthomie1757 · 1 year ago

  No mention of the tyranny of Ofsted. A good friend who is a teacher tells me her job is not teaching, but pleasing Ofsted. She's basically not allowed to use any discipline. And if the school suspends a pupil they run the risk of getting their rating downgraded.

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• AB

  @Absynthe12 · 3 years ago

  Yes!!!! She is awesome! I wish we had someone like her in the US.

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• EQ

  @equalitypeace1695 · 4 years ago

  Behaviour in school is getting worse .

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• RR

  @rrickarr · 2 years ago

  What about the abysmal pay!!!!  Single teachers having to room together because their salary does not allow them to find a single place.

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• SA

  @sarahedwards1952 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Progressive methods that are imposed on teachers every week. It is the lack of efficiency, and poor management in schools. Behaviour and attitude is one thing, particularly when the teacher is made responsible for everything! and this responsibility is not distributed fairly. Parents have a role, SLT have a role, students themselves have a role. Love Katharine Birbalsingh, perhaps given the time she would have been able to elaborate and show greater insight into  the often unnecessary and immense burdens that teachers have. Not surprised many are leaving!

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• CR

  @craigfowler7098 · 2 years ago

  Absolutely brilliant headteacher who understands her role clearly, in supporting teachers and having high expectations

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• SA

  @sarahpalin9400 · 3 years ago

  I agree, there has to be order in the classrooms. People who criticise teachers for expecting this are showing their own ignorance. Too many people criticising teachers nowadays. They have no idea of the expectations of the job. Not many adults could do that job well.

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• CA

  @caract960 · 4 years ago

  They brought in too much bureaucracy and many decent teachers quit so then they needed to introduce even more bureaucracy to monitor the incompetent ones.

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