It is a fact what they have been saying.
That's not what you claimed was a fact, was it?
They are not planning to be in the FE sector - far from it - they are aiming at the secondary sector and they are qualified to do so.
TBH, unless they have good connections, they won't have much of a chance. To teach in state secondary schools, you not only have to have a PGCE, you have to have a PGCE with QTS (Qualified Teacher Status). An FE PGCE doesn't give you that.
The private sector tends to expect new teachers to be at least as well qualified as state school teachers these days, except in a few subjects like Latin.
I am surprised at your attitude here. All I am doing is to have a debate. I am aware that I do not have the best experience in the world - yet I have some and it is significant. As you say I am entitled to my opinion and I don't feel that I have been out of order with my views.
I
have answered tons and tons of your points and debated with you on nearly every topic you raised in the first post.
If the private sector is not poaching teachers from the public sector, using the league tables as an indicator of potential targets, then that is extraordinary! Could it be the only sector I which doesn't suffer from this?
League tables don't tell you which teachers are doing well, and they don't tell you
why teachers are doing well.
If I were them I would ensure that the pressures and money were far better there. For example a Maths or Science teacher, being greatly in demand might be in a position to insist on an admin assistant to help with the non-teaching aspects of his or her job.
Why not? If you are in demand then you hold the aces, and can ask for what you want. It is the private sector which has the ability to do this because the state schools are not independent enough from the central control to adjust to this.
Some private schools might be able to do that for some maths and science teachers, it's true, so yeah, perhaps some private schools (the few with tons of money) can woo away some teachers (though the security of state school jobs tends to still be a big incentive not to leave). But that still does not mean those teachers are the best teachers, which was your claim.
BTW: teachers in state schools are not supposed to do the non-teaching aspects of their job either, and do have people to do those tasks (like photocopying and putting up displays) for them.
