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Reader's Comment, Jan Wositzky: I sympathise with the teacher awarded compensation last week, The Age, 11 September 2014

Teacher: It is a club.

What the teacher above has to say reflects my own experience.

Teacher quality, experience - particularly in other jobs - and qualifications have nothing to do with how well or how advanced you become as a teacher in the public system.

It's a club.

If you're not in, you're an outcast.

Dr Phil

Reader's Comment, Jan Wositzky: I sympathise with the teacher awarded compensation last week, The Age, 11 September 2014

Ex-teacher: The school you teach at will decide your fate as a teacher.

My teaching qualification should have included being a security guard, self defence and handling weapons.

Having a thorough understanding of curriculum and teaching and learning pedagogies was useless.

Ultimately, the school you teach at and the number of challenging classes you get will decide your fate as a teacher.

I got out after being physically attacked by a 16 year old off his head on amphetamines.

Definitely not the job for me.

Jan Wositzky: I sympathise with the teacher awarded compensation last week, The Age, 11 September 2014

Teacher: Principals and deputies need to work harder for the large sums of money they are paid.

I'm glad the Werribee teacher was recently awarded 1.2 million dollars.

Shame it was not more and shame it doesn't happen more often.

Maybe then education departments would start to shift the power balance away from bleeding heart parents and unruly kids back to teachers.

I am not advocating the cane at all, just more power back to the classroom teachers who are trying to do a job.

I am a teacher and I don't take rubbish from unruly kids.

If they try it, they are punished.

Like in real society, if you break the rules, you are punished.

I see some teachers struggle and it's a shame that school principals and deputies do not stand up for their staff adequately.

They need to work harder for the large sums of money they are paid because, from what I can see, it's teachers on the front lines while the deputies and principals sit in an office.

If schools had more power to remove problem students from classrooms and into another setting, grades would rise across the country.

Flatlander