Freud's Cane of Brighton, Reader's Comment 7 of 7, Teachers line up to fill exit

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Freud's Cane of Brighton, Reader's Comment 7 of 7, Teachers line up to fill exit plan gap, Education Reporter Sheradyn Holderhead, The Advertiser, 1 July 2011: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/teachers-line-up-to-fill-exit-plan-gap/story-e6frea6u-1226085141962 Historical link preserved from the original page.

South Australia: Education Department Head Office bureaucrats allegedly offered public sector separation packages in excess of $200,000.

The biggest problem in the South Australian education sector is the bloated head office. Historical link preserved from the original page.

Many thousands of public servants are working in the Flinders Street head office of the Education Department on salaries far in excess of the most experienced classroom teacher.

Even the approach taken to reduce staff numbers in schools versus head office is distorted.

South Australian teachers have been offered individual separation packages to a maximum of $50,000. Historical link preserved from the original page.

But bureaucrats in the Education Department have been offered public sector separation packages which in some cases have exceeded $200,000.

Lucy of Mile End, Reader's Comment 1 of 7, Teachers line up to fill exit plan gap, Education Reporter Sheradyn Holderhead, The Advertiser, 1 July 2011: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/teachers-line-up-to-fill-exit-plan-gap/story-e6frea6u-1226085141962 Historical link preserved from the original page.

South Australia: teacher's mother says her son has been working his backside off, doing the right thing, but he still cannot get a permanent position. He struggles from one week to the next.

Teaching in this State is an absolute joke and out of control.

I have to be careful what I say but my son is 27 years old and from what I have been told an outstanding teacher of young kids.

He cannot get a full time position and lives from term to term and year to year.

He has been to the country, interstate and has done the tough classes in high risk: high school card schools and yet cannot get a permanent position.

The Government and the Teachers Union should be ashamed of this.

I don't know of how many stories I read on how we need more teachers.

What a lot of rot.

Do not run any more Uni Courses until the positions are filled.

Many professions now do this; but gee then the Uni's would be out of business.

Well bad luck.

There is talk of another new scheme where graduates would get the full time jobs so what happens to those like my son who has been working his backside off, doing the right things and still cannot get a permanent position?

He cannot apply for a housing loan and struggles from one week to the next not knowing what next year will bring.

He has to wait until well into a new year before he even knows if he has a job.

Get this right South Australia.