There’s no doubt teaching faces huge problems. But we won’t be able to change anything unless we start shouting about how mighty the profession isMore from Secret TeacherA few years ago,I did the unthinkable as a teacher. I cancelled my membership to the union and the education press.
I always tell my students “surround yourself with positive people; choose positive role models”. Yet there I was, signed up to organisations that every month would send me glossy magazines and emails full of doom. Everything was unpleasant: Suicide rate in teaching rockets”, and “Lets strike”,“Down with Ofsted and league tables”. I could no longer occupy it, and since cancelling I feel liberated and beget never been happier.
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Source: theguardian.com