Julie of Subic Bay, Reader's Comment 1 of 60, Why our teachers want to leave, Ma

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Julie of Subic Bay, Reader's Comment 1 of 60, Why our teachers want to leave, Martina Simos, The Advertiser, 5 April 2011: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/why-our-teachers-want-to-leave/story-e6frea6u-1226033608622 Historical link preserved from the original page.

I will never work in a school again.

I completed my teacher training last September and for Term 4 worked as a relief teacher in local schools.

It gave me insight to places I will never go again.

I asked a teacher I respect immensely if I should become a teacher.

While she loves her job her answer was an emphatic NO!

Her job had become child care, not teaching as she was expected to teach all the social norms as parents no longer took that responsibility.

I am 44 and I am not prepared to tolerate abuse from parents and students.

I am also not prepared to tolerate administrators so far removed from classrooms that they have forgotten or will not acknowledge the hell that many of the WA schools are.

I feel for younger teachers who have to put up with workplace abuse.

These young teachers aren't stupid, many of them are passionate about teaching and they need support.

They need parents that will give a damn.

They need HOD's that will support them when there are problems.

And they need a professional body - YES teaching is a profession - that will be their advocate, that will pressure Governments to fix this very flawed system, not just take their registration fees every year and give them nothing in return.