Quote: runningman29 "The salary isn't that good you say!£32,200 for the average classroom teacher for 9mths work.Suppose you think they should be on more.Your living on a different planet if you think they do.'"
I've read most of the bile you've had to say about teachers and I don't care what you've read in the papers or heard from your mate down the pub, the majority of what you've said is misguided nonsense.
Firstly I'm married to a teacher (I know, I can't wait for her to retire so I can use all that money to buy a penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park) She gets up at 6am and travels 20 miles to her South Warrington school. A typical day will see her return for about 6.30pm. She then spends roughly 2 hours marking books, planning lessons and writing out individual performance plans, she typically does this 3 nights a week and I don't care how hard you find it to believe but teachers do work when they're on annual leave. My wife teaches Key Stage 2 and last year had to mark 90 SATS papers in a week.
Secondly and most importantly it is NOT the teachers that decide to close the school, it's the LEA. Another important thing is that from university, teachers are now actively told at university to apply for jobs away from their
respective towns as a preference which means travel. If a teacher cannot make a safe commute and they're are not enough teachers to teach then the
school has to shut. Simples.
You have no right to personally lambast teachers when A) they are not responsible for the closures and B) you have an uneducated opinion of the what the teaching role involves.
