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Work together to educate, Reader's Comment 61 of 97, Special Report: Teachers reveal why they walked, Yasmine Phillips, Education reporter, Perth Now, 19 February 2011: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/special-report-teachers-reveal-why-they-walked/comments-e6frg13u-1226008656772 Historical link preserved from the original page.

Australian principals are gutless and don't back up their teachers. Historical link preserved from the original page.

I taught overseas for many years, but I will never teach in an Australian school. Historical link preserved from the original page.

There is a total lack of discipline!

Headmasters who are gutless and won't back up the teachers are half the problem.

Useless parents are the other half.

R Gray, Reader's Comment 24 of 97 Special Report: Teachers reveal why they walked, Yasmine Phillips, Education reporter, Perth Now, 19 February 2011: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/special-report-teachers-reveal-why-they-walked/comments-e6frg13u-1226008656772 Historical link preserved from the original page.

I am leaving the teaching profession.

I am a secondary teacher. I am currently in the process of leaving the profession.

Its a cr_p job. I don't even know where to begin to explain why.

Firstly, there is no respect for teachers and many of the kids don't want to learn.

There is constant classroom disruption and the students have attention spans of about one minute.

Often you need to demonstrate something that takes 10-15 mins but you either rush through it or you spend the whole time putting out spotfires.

The students argue and moan about everything - they have no discipline.

The school I work at is practically falling down, everything is broken, and the resources provided are terrible, so you have to do everything yourself and pay for your own resources.

Students are constantly disorganised without equipment, litter the school so it looks like a tip, and rarely hand in completed assignments despite being given ample class time.

Teaching is not a pleasure - far from it, it wears you down, wears you out and destroys your soul.