The Victorian teacher writes

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There is a need for a fully independent authority to investigate and resolve workplace bullying complaints.

The present model is wasting teachers' time, their livelihoods, their work record, the value of their qualifications, their health, their family's well-being and cohesion, their money

and even their life.

It does not provide justice.

All sources fail to provide help when a teacher is bullied.

Reporting bullying is tantmount to lighting a fuse to your own destruction.

"Whatever it takes" seems to be the guiding principle, not ethics.

A bullied teacher is hit by a tsunami of false, never previously raised allegations as the employer tries to justify bullying.

The teacher is framed.

The perpetrators are emboldened.

And bullying spreads.

Science teacher, Ringwood: Teaching is stressful enough without lying awake, not knowing whether you will have a job in a few months' time, depite your best efforts as a new and inexperienced teacher.

The short term contracts are what turn most people away from teaching.

It's a crazy situation that makes it impossible for new teachers to spend half their year re-applying for their own jobs rather than teach.

Teaching is stressful enough without lying awake, not knowing whether you will have a job in a few months' time, despite your best efforts as a new and inexperienced teacher.

It takes years to get good at it.