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I'm still thinking about diversifying into teaching............

.....would rather go into tertiary education though!

There seems to be quite a few adverts on the telly screaming out for teachers. As for high pay, it's not that great in the first few years (so I hear from friends who are teachers) however, if you go up the career ladder (more responsibility, more stress, becoming the reviled heedie) there's good wonga there.

Secondary education, though- the stress levels of the job are surely dictated by the luck of getting a 'good' school, or getting a class of 'good' kids?

Wazza?

Mrs JJ has worked in a few [as I stint her unmercifully on the housekeeping,
well, fuck it it's MY hardearned, not hers, innit? [and I've had ther odd drink
[think: Green Chartreuese] with a few managers thererof.

The main trouble is, however socially-responsible individual managers may
try to be they are now governed by a bunch of moronic university-
[poorly]educated halfwit accountants that are interested only in the immediate
bottom-line so they can get promoted on the basis of short-term sales-
figures without taking into account the damage that bad feeling does to
the end-of-year results. If I ran a business as badly as they do I'd be
[rightly so] bankrupt after a 12-month. Harrasssing people with spam
phone-calls and/or mailshots is also similarly self-defeating. The sort of
educated-beyond-their-intelligence morons they now employ used to be
safely siphoned-off into the lower levels of Government where they could do
little if any harm.

You strange person.

Was asking really.

A good starting wage in Scotland would be in the ?18-22K bracket for someone degree-educated. By 'bad' schools, I was basically talking about schools with high rates of class disruption, truancy; ie with kids that are less willing to learn and be enthused!

Sure, the better teachers will get the better schools through their performance at interviews/references etc, but when you are starting off in the profession (just fresh from teacher training college), would I be right in saying that you don't really have the references to back you up except maybe those of the course lecturers and thus, to get experience, you are placed almost randomly in your area, eg Glasgow?

As you say, can't blame the kids for picking up on a crap teacher.

How difficult is it to get a post in, say, a fee-paying school and would you have to be an exceptional candidate to land such a post?

0900 Monday- be there or be thingy, can't remember, oh, yes, square.

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