Vocal Voices

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You do wonder what planet these politicians are on sometimes!

I mean, would you take up teaching as a second career?

Morgan is right, those of us who have had other careers have lots to offer.

Unfortunately career teachers - school, college, Uni, back to school - have few life skills. They have been taught by others from similar backgrounds where book learning was their knowledge fountain.

I gave up teaching after a couple of years because my life experiences were seen as second rate by many of my colleagues. Their theoretical knowledge was far superior, as far as they were concerned.

If my children were born today I would not send them to school. They would get a far better and broader education at home.

The thing that irritates me most about the article/advert is the use of the word "of" when it should be "with". This is becoming a very common mistake. If they are saying teachers are needed, then they need teachers of grammar first and foremost.

The rot set in when they stopped deducting marks for spelling mistakes in exams

Rodo wrote:The thing that irritates me most about the article/advert is the use of the word "of" when it should be "with". This is becoming a very common mistake. If they are saying teachers are needed, then they need teachers of grammar first and foremost.

I have just got a copy of the School Certificate exam paper I took in 1950. It was the last one before the change to GCE I think I could still answer the questions.
Have shown it to a friends daughter who has just sat the GSE exam and said it is harder than the one she took.
Have also got the papers for maths and physics
I also know that a clause is a group of words containing a finite verb but making incomplete sense.

Rodo wrote:The thing that irritates me most about the article/advert is the use of the word "of" when it should be "with". This is becoming a very common mistake. If they are saying teachers are needed, then they need teachers of grammar first and foremost.

Hear, hear!!!!

Some of the worst language manglers are employed by the BBC!

If I ever again see 'should of' instead of 'should have' in another of its articles I am going to London to knock some heads together, and give them a damned good taste of 'management speak' to boot.

The trouble with most teachers is that they have never left school.

Aggers wrote:The trouble with most teachers is that they have never left school.

Exactly as I said earlier.

At Michael's wedding there was a conversation with the bride's father. He has been a primary school teacher all his life and was letting forth on ex-servicemen and women entering the teaching profession. They were, of course, inferior, and were drones taught to obey. So I challenged that. I wasn't a drone. In my work in the RAF I was a problem solver. I looked at the problems pilots brought back and tried to solve them by asking why?. He could not see it.

We worked by numbers, where he used his brain.

When I asked if he had been in the forces he said "No". When I asked if he could be trained to be a serviceman he said "Yes". When I enquired if former service people could be trained to become teachers he lost his way. He is not alone in the teaching profession.