Awful teachers

I hear you MawlovesRosie and recognise what a very hard job teaching is, especially nowadays with the restrictive curriculum and endless pointless data gathering.

But I do think that many of us know of teachers who are simply in the wrong job and their dissatisfaction influences how they teach which goes on to put some children off subjects that they might otherwise have enjoyed.

What is needed is proper respect for teachers and an easing of their assessment and data gathering responsibilities so that they can get on and teach.

As a school governor it used to exasperate me when the teachers had to waste so much time on this gathering of data - I remember one teacher beavering away at this and it told her that little Johnny found maths hard - did she already know that; was she already helping him? Of course - the data was not for the child's benefit, but for OfSted.

It’s easy to castigate “awful teachers” - but how long would the list be if we were to identify “awful pupils” or indeed parents from hell?
Children can also sometimes be economical with the truth in the reports of teachers behaviour they carry home
Apologies if I am being defensive, but it’s easy to criticise people doing a difficult job, often under-resourced and frequently unappreciated.

Most schools have one rogue teacher - but thankfully they also often have the one marvelous inspirational teacher.

Enjoyment of a subject depends heavily on the teacher and it is a great pity when a child gets a hopeless teacher for a subject they used to enjoy and their interest drops off - I have seen this with my GC.