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An anonymous supply teacher asks the secretary of state for education to reconsider the focus on accountability that drove him out of his dream job as a primary teacher and PE coordinator

Our jobs require us to love and respect education but we must make sure that it doesn’t invade every corner of our lives, argues one teacher-writer

With Valentine’s Day once again upon us, one teacher tells her tale of falling in love with the school photocopier-repair man who came to fix the imposing but troubled ‘staffroom showpiece’

Making teachers increasingly accountable to parents, regardless of a child’s true abilities, is the best way to make progress data meaningless, says an anonymous teacher at an independent school

This anonymous ex-teacher never wanted to leave teaching, but shortages in his subject and dwindling budgets have left him jobless

The basics of great teaching are too often considered ‘optional extras’ in this time of newspeak and educational fads, says one anonymous teacher