Apparently there is a public sector strike going on...

[Mich the Tester]

A fed-up teacher's take on the strike;

NUT teachers strike: I am among the thousands leaving teaching today. This is why. - Comment - Voices - The Independent

Yet an unhealthy level of suspicion from those in power – namely politicians, education leaders and the public – ensures that teachers are under constant pressure to prove themselves. As the prevailing political wind disempowers those who understand teaching, it also passes the buck downwards – please fill in another spreadsheet with some more arbitrary and largely meaningless levels; please tell us why this child is making us look bad by not meeting the half-baked target we have set; please give us some information in case OFSTED arrive and ask for it. After three years as a teacher of history and politics at a North London comprehensive, this is why I am leaving the profession.

The public desire for as much evidence as possible also reduces education to “the study of that which can be measured,” rather than preparing real people for the real world.

Taylorism in action. That's what led to the union militancy of the 70s and the 'blue collar blues', and it's happening in white collar jobs. It's not just teachers that are sick to the back teeth of spreadsheet management and this culture of top-down suspicion and control.

[SpontaneousOrder]

A fed-up teacher's take on the strike;

NUT teachers strike: I am among the thousands leaving teaching today. This is why. - Comment - Voices - The Independent





Taylorism in action. That's what led to the union militancy of the 70s and the 'blue collar blues', and it's happening in white collar jobs. It's not just teachers that are sick to the back teeth of spreadsheet management and this culture of top-down suspicion and control.

That's what happens when you don't have prices.

[Old Greg]

A fed-up teacher's take on the strike;

NUT teachers strike: I am among the thousands leaving teaching today. This is why. - Comment - Voices - The Independent





Taylorism in action. That's what led to the union militancy of the 70s and the 'blue collar blues', and it's happening in white collar jobs. It's not just teachers that are sick to the back teeth of spreadsheet management and this culture of top-down suspicion and control.

Medicine is much worse. I was sat in a Hospital Consultant's office a year or so again (he was business lead on an IT project I was working on). Lovely chap and one of his juniors phoned up to discuss a case where the ongoing treatment had no chance of success (in terms of preventing death in the next few weeks), and was causing suffering, and it was clear that the best interest of the patient would be to withdraw treatment and allow the patient to die. But the patient was under the formal care of the surgical team (the consultant I was with was a physician), and the surgeon was determined to keep going with aggressive treatment to keep the patient alive until he reached the point when a death wouldn't appear on the surgeon's deaths within 30 days of surgery figures. Not uncommon apparently.

[fullyautomatix]

A fed-up teacher's take on the strike;

NUT teachers strike: I am among the thousands leaving teaching today. This is why. - Comment - Voices - The Independent





Taylorism in action. That's what led to the union militancy of the 70s and the 'blue collar blues', and it's happening in white collar jobs. It's not just teachers that are sick to the back teeth of spreadsheet management and this culture of top-down suspicion and control.

So the teachers dont want any accountability ? Just turn up whenever they want and teach what they want and no questions asked.

[fullyautomatix]

This is complete bollocks.

Good point, well made.

[Old Greg]

So the teachers dont want any accountability ? Just turn up whenever they want and teach what they want and no questions asked.

Where did they say they didn't want any accountability?

[TheFaQQer]

So the teachers dont want any accountability ? Just turn up whenever they want and teach what they want and no questions asked.

That's not quite what that snippet of thoughts from one teacher suggests.

In my experience, teachers want to be able to teach and teach well. They don't want continual interference from people who have no experience of the industry in which they work. They want some kind of consistency in approach from government rather than flipping from one fad to the next. They want some kind of appropriate curriculum, rather than one which is based on how the education secretary was taught in the 60s and 70s. They want some respect for the work that they do, rather than being denigrated by successive governments from both sides.

It's not a case of not wanting any accountability - it's being held accountable by multiple different bodies with different expectations and conflicting ideas. Teachers are currently held accountable to parents, the head teacher, governors, the local authority, the DfE in it's various guises and OFSTED - not all of those pull in the same direction.

[Old Greg]

That's not quite what that snippet of thoughts from one teacher suggests.

In my experience, teachers want to be able to teach and teach well. They don't want continual interference from people who have no experience of the industry in which they work. They want some kind of consistency in approach from government rather than flipping from one fad to the next. They want some kind of appropriate curriculum, rather than one which is based on how the education secretary was taught in the 60s and 70s. They want some respect for the work that they do, rather than being denigrated by successive governments from both sides.

It's not a case of not wanting any accountability - it's being held accountable by multiple different bodies with different expectations and conflicting ideas. Teachers are currently held accountable to parents, the head teacher, governors, the local authority, the DfE in it's various guises and OFSTED - not all of those pull in the same direction.

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Don't forget the General Teaching Council and Safeguarding Children's Boards.

[TheFaQQer]

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Don't forget the General Teaching Council and Safeguarding Children's Boards.

GTC closed in 2012 - I had them in the list and then took it out

[Old Greg]

GTC closed in 2012 - I had them in the list and then took it out

Well done you! Who managed the registration of teachers now?