Teacher’s resignation-by-media is a symptom of the Tory masterplan to stifle the British people
![—[Image: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian.]](https://voxpoliticalonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/160426classroom.jpg)
—[Image: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian.]
They aren’t going because they’re lazy. Nor are they leaving because unreasonable pay demands aren’t being met.
They’re resigning because staying on would imply that they support the dismantling of publicly-funded healthcare, and now education, that the Conservatives have perpetrated.
I use the word “perpetrated” deliberately; it is a crime against the people of the United Kingdom. If you aren’t filthy rich, and able to buy your own healthcare and education, the Tories are doing everything they can to hold you back.
It’s possible that, when this new Dark Age ends and an enlightened government is returned to office once again, those who have departed will return.
One only hopes that the damage – harm that will be accelerated by the vilification heaped on these genuinely-caring professionals by the ignorant amateurs in the Conservative Government – will not have progressed so far by then that it cannot be reversed.
Please accept this as written notice of my resignation from my role as assistant head and class teacher. It is with a heavy heart that I write you this letter. I know you’ve struggled to listen to and understand teachers in the past, so I’m going to try and make this as clear as possible. In the six short years I have been teaching your party has destroyed the education system.
Obliterated it. Ruined it. It is broken.
I don’t feel like a teacher at all any more. I prepare children for tests and, if I’m honest, I do it quite well. It’s not something I’m particularly proud of, as it’s not as if I have provided my class with any transferable, real-life skills during the process. They’ve not enjoyed it, I’ve not enjoyed it but we’ve done it: and one thing my children know how to do is answer test questions. They’ve written raps about how to answer test questions, they’ve practised test questions at home and test questions in school, they’ve had extra tuition to help them understand the test questions. They can do test questions – they just haven’t had time to do anything else.
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The tories ruin everything they meddle with in the pursuit of their toxic ideology, what a shame that yet another obviously dedicated professional feels the need to resign because of it.
The Tories began the destruction of creative teaching in 1983 when Kenneth Baker introduced the National Curriculum. Age related testing (SATS) has furthered this withering on the vine leading to the situation where schools teach to the tests to ‘up’ their results percentages in the league tables and where pupils excitedly refer to themselves as a statistic and tell parents and staff ‘I’m a Level 5 now’.
I was horrified last night when I discovered, in some comments on a faceache post, that children are also ‘sanctioned’ at school these days. They are being conditioned to accept the dominant authority and not, as the teacher [above], says, being taught things that will help them deal with life in the real world… well, the real world as perhaps we used to know it.
The ex-teachers of my family [head & deputy head] also say they’d resign now if they were still working.
No wonder there’s no common sense left these days.
Another devious tactic by the tories and the idiot British public will buy their shenanigans again!