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PG, Reader's Comment, Hey politicians, leave those teachers alone, Jane Caro, The Drum, ABC News, 12 March 2013: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4565396.html Historical link preserved from the original page.

I discovered that I was not emotionally committed to the teaching profession.

I taught in schools just long enough to realise that I'd be damned if I was going to take a crushing work load home everyday and suck on 0.6 FTE for G-d knows how many years whilst, as a male, having my every move double-plus scrutinized for what, at the end of the day, was a job that involved a large amount of 'crowd control'.

... Clearly I'm not 'emotionally committed' to the 'profession' (what a joke) - anyone who is could arguably be eligible to be 'committed' to another kind of 'institution'

Mad Mike, Reader's Comment, Hey politicians, leave those teachers alone, Jane Caro, The Drum, ABC News, 12 March 2013: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4565396.html Historical link preserved from the original page.

My wife has to deal with students who physically and verbally abuse their teachers.

High school teaching in many schools requires teachers to manage aggressive and vicious opposition from substantial proportions of students in each class.

In the final school at which my wife worked, at the end of a long and extremely successful high school teaching career, she regularly encountered verbal and physical harassment, including assault, from male and female students.

The school's senior staff totally failed to provide any form of support to my wife or take action against the abusive students.

High school teaching is often a nightmare.

Attracting high quality young people to enter this confronting environment is difficult.

Keeping them there is even harder.

Unless we grasp the nettle of attacking the physical and verbal abuse by students of their teachers, we will continue to find it hard to staff our schools with the best young minds.