Polony, Reader's Comment, 19 March 2011: Pay-rises and productivity: getting the

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Polony, Reader's Comment, 19 March 2011: Pay-rises and productivity: getting the best out of teachers, Winston Smith, Unleashed, ABC, 18 March 2011: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/45264.html Historical link preserved from the original page.

Classroom teacher resigns: fed up with the "car park mafia".

I resigned from teaching despite years of success, loving it and really valuing my students.

We won lots of awards and my students just loved being in my lessons.

I got fed up with the ever increasing number of neurotic parents, otherwise known as "car park mafia" who can make a teacher's life a misery - mostly women who don't work and have too much time on their hands.

I had one nut job parent who complained that I hadn't spent enough time helping her passive aggressive ten year old daughter choose the right colour texta. I gave up after 3 attempts!

Principals, desperate to be promoted out of pergatory (school) and away from daily idiotic complaints, are busy sucking up to the parents. This is known as 'community liaison'.

In the mean time, teachers are powerless pawns in a system that's gone wrong.

The way has been cleared for bullying parents who get together in groups to feel powerful and complain over "idiotic nonsense" that they would have had their butt kicked over 10 years ago.

Finally, the Department has no intention of supporting teachers as they are playing a political game of damage control, with teachers, the expendable commodity, just as the term "human resources" suggests:)