Coupled with the increasing levels of violence directed towards teachers, politically correct minefields to traverse; it is little wonder why anybody would want to become a teacher in modern Britain today.
Remember the slogan Education, Education, Education? It could be argued that this was a somewhat noble, perhaps idealistic vision of the future of the direction of education in the United Kingdom, under the leadership of the then Prime Minister Tony Blair back in 1997.
13 years of new Labour has taken its toll on education in the UK. Standards have fallen to the extent that in core subjects like GCSE Maths it requires a mere 20% to pass. Teachers are under ever increasing pressure to meet deadlines and fill in mountains of meaningless paper work to satisfy the bureaucrats. This coupled with the increasing levels of violence directed towards teachers, politically correct minefields to traverse; it is little wonder why anybody would want to become a teacher in modern Britain today. Alarmingly the pay that teachers get is less than that of a bin man, hardly reflective of the hard work and hardships that teachers in the UK have to endure. According to recent statistics, 900 pupils per day are suspended for violence against teachers that include assaulted and verbal abuse. The figures from the department of education, include racist abuse, threatening behaviour and racist abuse. In total they show school children were suspended on 166,900 occasions for assault or abuse. Pupils were expelled on 2,460 occasions. Tackling bad behaviour remains a priority for the new coalition government.
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