The human cost of NSW's teacher oversupply, Anna Patty, The Sy

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Reader's Comment, The human cost of NSW's teacher oversupply, Anna Patty, The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 October 2014

NSW education graduate: the NSW Department of Education is not telling us the truth.

As a NSW education graduate who has been actively trying to obtain permanency for six years, I have investigated all the options suggested to me by the NSW Department of Education and let me tell you, they're not telling graduates the truth.

What they don't tell graduates is that once they are teaching in the country, there is no guarantee they will be transferred back.

The department is also encouraging teachers to retrain in other subjects that are as equally flooded with teachers in waiting.

I'm currently in the process of working out what I'm going to do now because this situation is destroying my confidence and self-worth.

I graduated from Uni with a distinction average.

I have volunteered my spare time and invested my money into this job, in order to prove that I'm worth hiring.

More fool me, I guess.

I have acquired as much experience as possible for someone in this position and get interviews - but they have gone in-house every time.

Every other position I thought I had a shot at has either gone straight to transfer or an appointment by the department.

Outstanding teachers are leaving the system because they can't even get in.

Kim