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Date: 03 July 2008 20:58:30
TICTH the bureaucratic, red-taped, league-table led, jargon-riddled, gimmick-laden education system and the stress upon stress it lays upon even the best of teachers.
In particular, after: two changes of head teacher in quick succession; radical changes in the ways of working within the school with each change of head; a new national Key Stage 3 curriculum (very good one, but still) being launched which requires a complete rewrite of our syllabus by September; six members of staff being made redundant in three weeks' time; major reorganisation of the entire education system on the Isle of Wight being announced including the closing of our school (and now, bless 'em, the declaration that they're not sure whether they're going to go ahead with these changes or not); virtually every teacher in the school taking on more and new responsibilities to replace those who are leaving; virtually every teacher in the school having to move the entire contents of their classroom into a different room last week so that the school is completely reorganised again; this week being the week when the new pupils for next year visit and the older ones go to visit the High School and there's trips out and sports' days and the like, and only three weeks to go until the blessed holidays.... they pick NEXT BLOODY WEEK TO DROP A TWO-DAY INSPECTION ON US WITH THREE PAGES OF LESSON PLANS TO BE WRITTEN FOR EVERY SINGLE LESSON WE TEACH!!!!!!!!
It's as if they're determined to stretch us to see how much stress it takes before we break. "What? You coped with that? Well, see how you like this then!" Don't you idiots realise that if all the good and consciencious teachers crack under all this rubbish, it's the kids and your blessed league tables that will suffer?