My experience with teachers involved an extensive side parents don't see, unprofessional behavior, dishonesty, lack of interest despite having more time off and support for the last thirty years. We have many teachers who take a post and then go on the sick for twelve or more months. When we finally insist they go see the school doctor, everyone resigns before the appointment. Leaving the school with a massive wage bill for temps, who could not care less if the children learn anything or not. A class travel through our school without a perminant teacher, they became unteachable and the staff just cheered when they moved on. Shortages mean under qualified teachers/heads are promoted beyond their ability, unfit for their posts. I dealt with various tribunials where these so called professionals lie, cheat and quite dishonest. My partner another school governor at a different school has even worse stories to tell, Woodhouse was right 40% of teachers are unfit to be called professionals, I would say in my experience 40% was to low!
Schools are there to provide social discipline and work ethic, little robots to serve the community and has little to do with learning. That is why school attendance is forced on children even down to using propaganda in the lessons. I home school my daughter rather than let those jokers called teachers fail my child!
As a ex-publican, business owner in Coventry in the past, the Police are bent and dishonest, they closed a whole crime squad when I was there. Some of the things I've witnessed is unpublishable, I would never trust them at anytime, I always record any conversation I have with them as a 'norm'.
