The Teaching Profession...confused?

[10ClarionSt]

Most nights on TV, we see an ad. asking people to apply to be teachers. They paint a jolly picture of happy kids with their happy teacher. They look really nice kids. You might want them as your own, or as your grandchildren. What a good job, with a starting salary of £24k. Why not apply? Well, today the government has announced that teachers are going to get protective powers against pupils. Teachers will be able to take all kinds of action to protect themselves. Am I missing something here? Nice job? Lovely kids? Good salary? All's well. So why the protection if the job is as good as the ads make out?

[dustypuss]

This might answer your question . The teacher is on the right.

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[B00]

You could say that about any advert for any profession. Seen the army one "see The World?"...yeah right!

They forget to tell you the bit it's usually in a hellhole, with some git tryingt to blow you to smithereens.

[stewey]

..and the former unruly, disruptive, bullying student on the left.

[poodicat]

Would not be a teacher these days,no respect, and pupils and parents challenge everything...

[craft1948]

One of my nephews teaches at a large comprehensive in Birmingham........he loves it.

[factor-fiction]

I don't think many people realise the way pupils at some schools run the teachers ragged. For example, I have seen pupils know they can get away with:
-deliberately steaming into teachers in the corridor;
-throwing items/spitting at the teacher whenever he/she turns their back on the class for a second ;
-swearing profusely at teachers and taunting them (knowing parents won't care and detentions won't be served);
- pupils blocking the teachers' way and refusing to move, or pupils pushing past teachers to leave the room;
- pupils swearing at each other or fighting in the classroom;
-damaging/trashing property such as books, laptops, doors, cupboards.

Of course there are many good schools, many pupils who are a pleasure to teach and many supportive parents, but in my experience many teachers will regularly experience the above aggressive, loutish behaviour at some stage in the day.

The extra powers that teachers may get won't make any significant difference- it's all gone too far now.

[Mosaic]

Today I was called 'an effing ***' by a fifteen-year-old. On Monday a twelve-year-old boy deliberately accessed a webpage of obscenities to show his friends, in a lesson. Earlier this year a 14-year-old threatened to bomb my car. This is in a school that is not on the whole a bad place to be. Think what goes on in the bad schools.
Schools put teachers under pressure to not admit that some children have gone beyond anything that can be done to help them learn. Each pupil represents a sum of money - they want the money and they want classroom teachers to absorb the flak. This is the reality of teaching at the moment.
Then take the fact that, badness apart, many of these children are damaged by their home background. More now come from chaotic families than was ever the case before. Teachers have to bear the brunt of family problems as well.
They want graduates to join because rookies are cheaper and easier to manipulate.

[dustypuss]

My Gran Who died in 1962 age 82 used to say ( spare the rod and spoil the child ) seems she was right,

[sophie_1003]

Mosaic- exactly the reasons I'm going into early years!