Sarah Hargreaves

What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.

Ummm..so everyone knows there is a recruitment and retention issue in the education sector.

If being a teacher was so cushy, wouldn’t everyone want to do it?

When I first trained to be a teacher, I swore I wouldn’t go down this rabbit hole, but believe me, it is fully justified.

I won’t go into a long diatribe about how difficult the long days are (no, we don’t finish at 3) or how every minute of every day you have to be ‘on’. You can’t slack off for an hour lunch.

But just say that the numbers speak for themselves. Graduates aren’t training anymore, teachers are quitting because it’s hard and they can get paid more elsewhere.

Something needs to change, and no, it’s not make them work more.