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A teacher's story: Victoria
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Teachers' Stories: Australian teachers talk about their working conditions - workplace bullying, harassment, mobbing, victimisation, discrimination and " payback". Historical link preserved from the original page.
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Read how a young male teacher - a first year graduate - was driven out of work in Queensland!
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General teachers' stories and private school workplace bullying stories below -
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Teacher: teaching is a dangerous and even ruinous job in Australia.
It is the quality - or otherwise - of the local administration that will decide your fate as a teacher.
Remember teaching is renowned for bullying workplaces.
Nothing kills a teacher's career more quickly than bullying, especially if he /she is an outstanding, well-qualified teacher, with solid achievements, stuck in a milieu where tall poppy teachers are despised by some (or many) staff and brought down.
This is particularly so when cultures are able to become entrenched with the same decision-makers and managers in the same roles for decades.
I have seen one such environment in action, with some brilliant teachers bullied mercilessly and forced out, never to teach again.
Their students were devastated.
I actually saw a very capable teacher with a higher degree forced out while an unqualified teacher-mate of the manager stayed employed although he had non-stop student complaints.
Merit?
On its head!
Taxpayers say they want quality teachers, but there are many people in the system who do not want quality teachers.
And quality teachers have no protection when they are attacked.
This is what makes teaching such a dangerous and, too often, ruinous job in Australia.
Most other countries would not stand for such a waste of human ability and training.
Unbelievably, the state government here (seems to be Victoria) will always fight a teacher, no matter how unjustly.
This plays right into the hands of the above-mentioned lynching of teachers whose abilities stand out in a hostile workplace - where nobody is allowed to exceed the manager's low level qualifications, etc.
A teacher.