Any ex-teachers out there?

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Why dont more teachers go and teach in private schools?

Are there lots of vacancies in private schools they could all go for?

I wouldn't have thought so.

 

[nino_savatte]

Time spent with students. access to books, holiday allowance are brilliant.

Managerialism/MacDonaldization, paperwork, "new" initiatives, support, most media and public opinion, hours, contracts, government policies, workload, stress, imposed self loathing etc all suck.

The good bits just about outweigh the bad.

You left out staff development days...or "15 ways to use a paperclip".

 

[Dante]

Are there lots of vacancies in private schools they could all go for?

I wouldn't have thought so.

same shortages as in the state sector. so for some subjects lots of jobs out there in the private sector.

I considered going into private ed, but it's so against the valyues i've developed and so against the reason that i went intot teaching that i decided against it. Sadly the kids i taught also didnt quite appreciate the value of the educatio ni was giving them (well some) so i've had my lot of it for now.

The problems i faced are i imagine the same for many others who have left or who are thinking of leaving. low levels of support, no say in the decision making process (even down to which courses should be taught) reems of bueracracy and the schools determination to keep expulsions down despite the number of effictivly criminal incidents a pupil has.

some things aren't worth 20-odd K a year.

 

[chilango]

...on the other hand, my Year 7 class have just bought me a cool swiss army knife as a present!

 

[nino_savatte]

Surely the government or the Unions are workig to REDUCE the workload? That's what I read anyway!! Is this not true? I mean surely if the hours are so bad and there is so much paperwork, then they would have more and more difficulties recruiting, thus forcing them to reduce these issues by recruiting more admin staff!

No?

Aye, the government said that it was going to reduce the amount of paperwork that teachers do but thus far, it's all been nowt but hot air.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

1/ Profit being the bottom line
2/ Kids/parents believing they can buy results...and using their "customer" status as a lever to interfere.
3/ Kids can see you as beneath them. Treat you like one of their domestics.
4/ Everything is about exam results...no other educational goals.
5/ No Union as such.
6/ Lots of arrogance.

This all sounds eerily similar to Chinese schools

 

[rorymac]

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I used to teach CDT and fuckin applied mathematics. It paid the best and as I am a genius I applied and got the fuckin job. There was a near incident with Bernadette Popple and so I fuckin retired almost as soon as I began. She was a grade A student to be fair. I never really understood what I was teaching myself to be fair.
I fuckin left and immediately began my new life. I knew I wasn't all that at science and I wanted to do metawork but they said I was too intelligent. I fuckin was not basically.
That is why I am now Works Manager at the fucking best machine tool manufacturing company in Europe. I fucking love living in Heckmondwike fuckin miles away from that Popple bastard and I'm happy as fuckin Larry on the cunting shop floor.
Then wankers in the drawing room can stick their drawings up their fanny. They're not worth a fuck on the shop floor and they haven't a clue about proper maths. They get all the Young's Modulus values wrong for a start. It's a fucking good job I am there which is why they made me Works Manager. It does NOT say that on my fucking office door.
I'm getting very restless so I may not be there too much longer.
I briefly operated a STOP/GO traffic sign manually but there was an incident and I fucking quit. I told them to stick their sign right up their bollocks and to keep my pay as I had already had a score sub like. I fucking kept the high visibility jacket and the yellow crayons the architect wanker left on thw thodolite inside my fucking hard hat
I don't have to say anymore than that if I don't want. After all .. who the fuckin hell is going to make me.
Ok! :/

 

[Tank Girl]

milesy says "go to bed rory"

 

[rorymac]

!!!!

I AM in my pyjamas anyway lol !!!
Goodnight basically.

 

[brixtonvilla]

2 rorymac posts of my thread...

*feels honoured*

 

[fizzerbird]

What did you do? How did you get out? Do you ever regret it?

Fucking hate teaching right now, hate the stress, the workload, the hours, my class, all of it, want to leave. Need to think of something else though. Any ideas?

BIG fucking DITTO!!!!

the work is great but what your expected to do vastly spills outside of your paid work hours, not only that but then youv'e got your arsey target driven shit for brains Line managers whose mismanagment is usually to blame for a couple of weeks extra unpaid hours breathing down you neck.

Fuck me even bigger DITTO!

teaching used to be enjoyable. now, teaching in mainstream state schools is so prescriptive, so bureacratic, so much ablout teaching to the exam and the mythical 5% increase in standards every single year...

i'm sure there are other horrid jobs but there are other jobs which are much, much easier, more enjoyable and less soul-destroying.

Once again DITTO...Right back to more work...I feking hate the month of May these days...