Teachers leaving the profession

My friend gave up on teaching, and went back to being a scientist, and my family went off to France and ran a B & B instead.

Grantanow

My graduate DGN left teaching after about ten years for a high powered job in IT, more money, travel, expenses, interesting tasks and co-workers. She enjoyed teaching but found many aspects (yes, most of those mentioned above) stressful and unrewarding.

DD2 took the same path.

Understandable. Good luck to her.

I was once collecting my youngest granddaughter from her primary School.I was standing in the school yard with other parents/ grandparents waiting for the children coming out when a class was returning to school from an outing.The children in this class we mostly walking in a straight orderly line except a couple of them who started wandering around the school yard.The teacher accompanying them called out for those two children to get back into the line.Immedietly one of the parents started shouting ''A good job that is not one of mine she is shouting at, I will give a her thump! no one shouts at my child''
That is just one of the things teachers have to put up with.

In the days before Dunblane, when school doors were not locked, a parent walked into my class at hometime and pointed car keys into my face, because someone had stolen his son's football.
Apparently it was all my fault.

You need nerves of steel to teach in some area..

That sounds like the criminal offence of threatening behaviour though Scottish law may differ.

Grantanow

That sounds like the criminal offence of threatening behaviour though Scottish law may differ.

It was a long time ago and our head teacher didn't want to know. Times have changed.
We had to phone the police a few times.

We had a newly qu

Don’t know what happened there. We had a newly qualified teacher held up by the neck against a wall for admonishing an unkind, rude child. Another time, a mother bringing her child late to school was asked to go to the school office as all classroom doors were now locked. Her language made my toes curl. Both parents were escorted off the premises and banned for 6 months. I bet they didn’t care one jot.