Spot on. When I had a disruptive pupil and chatted with my colleagues and found many times we all had problems with the same pupil - yet when we went to senior management they always turned the tables to suggest that you were doing the job badly. What are you doing wrong? - was their attitude. The pupils who learnt and cooperated with you - (the vast proportion) were ignored and the focus was on your faults and failings. The fact that a group of teachers had similar problems with the same pupil was ignored. With such senior management’s abrogation of responsibility - I’m sure drives many teachers out - especially beginners.

I love that she shares the truth. Behaviour is out of control!! The expectations put on teachers is insane. 😮

Yes!!!! She is awesome! I wish we had someone like her in the US.

Absolute joke of a job. I am now an engineer earning double with half the stress

Progressive methods that are imposed on teachers every week. It is the lack of efficiency, and poor management in schools. Behaviour and attitude is one thing, particularly when the teacher is made responsible for everything! and this responsibility is not distributed fairly. Parents have a role, SLT have a role, students themselves have a role. Love Katharine Birbalsingh, perhaps given the time she would have been able to elaborate and show greater insight into the often unnecessary and immense burdens that teachers have. Not surprised many are leaving!

I agree, there has to be order in the classrooms. People who criticise teachers for expecting this are showing their own ignorance. Too many people criticising teachers nowadays. They have no idea of the expectations of the job. Not many adults could do that job well.

Absolutely brilliant headteacher who understands her role clearly, in supporting teachers and having high expectations

Kids and parents have too much power . They think it’s a master and slave relationship.

They brought in too much bureaucracy and many decent teachers quit so then they needed to introduce even more bureaucracy to monitor the incompetent ones.

Behaviour in school is getting worse .

What about the abysmal pay!!!! Single teachers having to room together because their salary does not allow them to find a single place.

Is she the only headteacher who really understands what teachers need in order to do their job?

she has some good points here, but is very dismissive of the paperwork. which I think I spend at least 3 or 4 hours a week on, and which is nothing to do with my job other than to prepare for inspectors and because head teachers demand it. At the same time living costs go up, my real term wages are awful. My friends, both with and without as much education as me, all earn at least 10 grand on my wages. Many work 10 till 4 at home, and can work remotely as often as they choose. I work 7 30 to 6 and sometimes later than that, sometimes behaviour, sometimes to plan lessons, or paperwork or reports to parents. I have worked in public and in private sectors, the pay is equally bad, behaviour is bad and the workload is never improved. During Covid I worked regular 12 hour days 6 days a week during the second lockdown to meet expectations and help children transition to online learning. I spend hours marking for the sake of inspections and never for the sake of the children, and the feedback from parents is rarely positive. It is no wonder so many leave!

I hope that all these teachers leaving will see the bursary for English reintroduced.

Behaviour is out of control, I won't teach in the UK anymore because of it... maybe at her school.

Dont ever be a teacher! I had a careers advisers telling me to look at it. They forgot to tell me the staff turnover and how many people are applying for the job! He said to me 'You will be using your degree'

Well done for her for sticking to her guns and not letting herself be led down the ideological alleyway of these interviewers.

Too much paperwork in every organisations especially these days in places like Schools and Colleges.

Well now .....In the first welcome speech by my principal at teachers training college ,Miss Wingate stated that there was never to be Indoctrination of any kind . Our business was to Open minds, (critique even what was read ) . The unscientific woke , much ,inapropriate introduction of sexual issues for small children and the general social parental turmoil , would have no doubt had her on the side of the Christian relentless prophetic Mary Woodhouse Some nonsence can be lain at the feet of ill educated so called teachers whose training does not include DO NOT INDICTRINATE ,but much at burocratic note taking . Fears, at the demands of the Islamic culture is scary . Cutting off a teachers head for discussing Mohammed ,might illumine your life .Not being allowed to discuss important topics from the shutting down of free speech brigade . Children with little or no English from the swamping of immigration. Children damaged by horrible home life where stability and moral and social skills do not exist . Take the issues and DO SOMETHING GOVERNMENT .TEACHERS should Not have to be Sovial Workers ,teach the indigenous language before writing and reading skills .They should Not be in fear of their lives . EVERYONE WITH A PINCH OF INTELLECT KNOWS WHAT TO DO .GET A BACKBONE AND LEAD GOVERNMENT . GET THE TOUGH STUFF DONE .

Not one teacher understood me including my mother . I see flaws in teacher training. They think they are caring and understanding.i was a normal child but had the well sibling syndrome snd that was the main problem. I had too much to think about I couldn't concentrate on learning. Schools and mother failed me. I tried to educate myself as an adult. I don't think much of teachers for their social worl side and I think they are are ignorant. I think a social worker should be employed in each school and a trained counsellor so that teachers can get on with teaching. Even social workers can miss the well sibling syndrome and child carers and in fact moth professionals including doctors.

If you're thinking of teaching...Don't!

Only if she could see into the future she would have seen she's got bigger problems with Islamic fait in her well organised School

Stop the bureaucracy. Unions stay out of the classrooms.

Buh-bye!!

Now, with this crisis, cost of living, we will have hungry students unable to learn. You can not teach to students with an empty stomach. I lived this in my home country in 2001. Students fainting coz they had nothing for days.

Although there are many issues which annoy teachers the central driving force which has undermined the quality of education is the forced over-schooling of children who are no longer forced to pass exams in order to get promoted leading directly to massive numbers of unqualified kids in the higher or secondary grade levels throughout the entire English speaking world. There are currently probably at least twice as many students in the upper forms or grades which deal with adolescents which has raised unrealistic expectations of teachers to unprecedented levels. Such students were traditionally failed out of the schools to enter the work force as either laborers or trades apprentices, a practice which should really be re-adopted since there is little evidence that the lower half of the population intellectually benefits from so much schooling as evidenced by the reading levels of adults with double digit IQs remaining stalled at sixth grade level or whatever form level is typical of 12 year olds in Britain. And such underqualified students tend to be poorly behaved constituting an intolerable stressor for school teachers.

Dont ever be a teacher....you are asking for accusations

Will all be lefties left ...what they want

Can they afford it...🤣🤣..most still paying their student fees off...

Knowing teachers, it's more likely they've grown used to the relaxation of standards and expectations during the pandemic, and are struggling to adapt to the culture shock of returning to the pressure and pace of normal life. Many of us have had to deal with this change. Some of us have welcomed it, others not so much. It's about being an adult and getting on with it.

I would take one look at that headmistress and turn around and home school my kids.

Unions are not on the coal face. They become their own self-justifying entities. Unimpressed with the teaching unions here.🇦🇺🦘👍

Happening here too. 🇦🇺🦘🦘 Too much bureaucracy - people who have not taught or haven’t taught for a long time. Yes, it’s about workload, behaviour management, poor support, unrealistic expectations….etc.