Thread by @guruteaching

Ex-teachers probably won’t come flooding back into the classroom because:
1. They’re often highly vulnerable
2. They left because they could no longer justify the stress caused by the job
3. They were ready to retire and haven’t the energy or will to work
4. They have a new job

There can’t be many teachers who left the job who don’t fit into at least one of these categories.

So, @educationgovuk, where are all of these ex-teachers coming from?

It’s time you made the profession more attractive to work in.

Fund schools properly so they can build more classrooms and hire more staff. Many schools are creaking at the seams because they’ve had to take too many students, to cover their basic running costs.

Pay ALL teachers a competitive salary that includes a guaranteed inflation-meeting increase so that pay isn’t eroded over time.

Support families adequately so that schools don’t have to meet the needs that proper social care would normally provide. Opening the Sure Start centres would be a good way to do this.

And make decisions about Covid issues well-ahead of time. If you know there’s going to be a spike in Dec/Jan then advise schools to go to remote learning before the Christmas break. Schools are a huge transmission vector. You know this. It’s *your* job to do something about it.

Worth mentioning that @Strickomaster wrote about this very issue in the latest edition of @HWRK_magazine. You can read it here:
hwrkmagazine.co.uk/not-all-treasu…