Citizen voter and community activist of Canning, Reader's Comment 13 of 19.

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I am a fixed term WA primary school teacher with 8 years experience and I am currently unemployed.

I have called the department on several occasions only to be told that something 'may' come up soon and that there is always relief teaching.

I have taught in the country for 2 and 1/2 years and was not rewarded for that.

I have missed out on two lots of maternity leave due to fact that my due dates of my children did not fit into the term of my contract.

I have a mortgage to pay and two children, I cannot afford to be waiting around for something to come up.

What teacher shortage I ask?

Unemployed teacher, Comment 19 of 19

Exodus could lead to teacher shortages, Yasmine Phillips, Education Reporter, The Sunday Times, 5 February 2011: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/exodus-could-lead-to-teacher-shortages/story-e6frg13u-1226000688117 Historical link preserved from the original page.

Goldfields High School, Kalgoorlie, West Australia: 13-year-old student allegedly throws garbage bin at male teacher and repeatedly punches him.

A 13-year-old student at Goldfields High school, Kalgoorlie, West Australia, allegedly threw a garbage bin at her male teacher and repeatedly punched him.

The alleged attack was recorded on a mobile phone.

Footage shows the teacher backing away as the girl screams, punches him and then throws a bin at him.

The teacher attempted to escape out of the classroom but students kept him stuck at the door.

The footage was shown on the TV news in Queensland.

It was pretty shocking.

The footage should be shown to all students training to be teachers.

Because this will be your life when you graduate.

Another student also faces suspension for filming the attack.

The alleged attack took place at a public school in the Goldfields region.

You have to wonder why the student who filmed the attack is being punished.

The student's film is the only evidence that this teacher has that the incident took place.

And evidence is vital - if there is no evidence, there was no incident.

Surely classroom teachers should encourage children to film such incidents?

West Australian schoolteachers want the option of emergency buttons in classrooms, more police officers and surveillance cameras to be installed in schools across the state. Historical link preserved from the original page.

State School Teachers Union president Anne Gisborne said measures were needed to ensure an urgent response when teachers were in danger.

If students are not allowed to film attacks on teachers, we need security cameras in every classroom.

This is the only way that classroom teachers can prove what is going on in Australian classrooms. Historical link preserved from the original page.

WA teachers demand CCTVs in schools, Josh Jerga, WA Today, WA News, 28 May, 2010: http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/wa-teachers-demand-cctvs-in-schools-20100528-wklu.html Historical link preserved from the original page.

Teachers want alarm buttons in classrooms, Nicholas Perpitch, P.3, The Nation, The Weekend Australian, 22-23 May 2010. Historical link preserved from the original page.

North Albany Senior High School: teachers threatened and defamed on Facebook.

Current and former teachers at North Albany Senior High School, in Western Australia's south, have been threatened and defamed by users of two Facebook groups set up for past and present students.

One comment said: "If we get over two million people saying they hate ( ) all staff... workers involved should be massacred by chainsaws and the school should be shut down.

In one discussion, past students referred to a teacher by name, claiming he was a "pervert" and had "sleazed" on to them.

Students threaten teachers on Facebook, Nicolas Perpitch, The Australian, 18 February 2010: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/students-threaten-teachers-on-net/story-e6frg6nf-1225831550708 Historical link preserved from the original page.

Western Australia: teachers, principals and cleaners physically assaulted 275 times by students during two school terms.

In December 2009, a teacher at a school in the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, told a boy to stop riding a scooter through the school.

The boy allegedly punched the teacher in the face and the teacher suffered a black eye and a blood nose.

School staff in Western Australia - including teachers, principals and cleaners - were physically assaulted 275 times by students during the second and third terms 2009.

Student charged after punching teacher in the face, Yasmine Phillips, The Sunday Times, 2 January 2010: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/punching-student-charged/story-e6frg13u-1225815543571 Historical link preserved from the original page.

I will never teach in a state school again.

I used to teach at a state school; never again!

The main problem is that the WA education department won't expel students.

Students who choose to assault teachers (or other students for that matter) should be expelled and sent home to do their schooling by distance education.