20 Year Veteran, Reader's Comment, A little respect: attracting top teachers is

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20 Year Veteran, Reader's Comment, A little respect: attracting top teachers is not rocket science, Jane Caro, The Drum, Opinion, ABC, 4 October 2012: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4293550.html Historical link preserved from the original page.

I work in the corporate world now. I get paid well and I don't work nearly as hard as I had to as a teacher.

After leaving school I started studying law but left that to became a teacher.

I was a targeted graduate and was sent to the Western Suburbs.

I lasted two and a half years before moving to part-time job at a private school, while I retrained.

Teaching was a great job but who wants to work that hard for that amount of pay?

Who wants to be treated the way teachers are treated?

And who wants to deal with the sort of societal ills teachers deal with, with no real support or appreciation?.

I work in the corporate world now.

I've got my life back.

I get paid well, and I don't work nearly as hard as I had to as a teacher.

No one wants to know just how hard teachers work...and no one wants to pay them adequately.