Posted by bigjimmy
What has been the highlight or lowlight of the past 10 years for you?
Posted by st joseph
Highlight: McCrone for what seemed a good increase in wages at first. Lowlight: McCrone for the resultant changes which were “supposedly” based on it. I also wonder if we would have found another way (and a wage increase) if teachers had voted against it. I’ve yet to meet another teacher who admits voting for it.
Posted by RailroadGin
Highlight: escaping the rat race that is the Australian education system and relocating my family to the comparative sanity of Scotland.
Posted by kibosh
Lowlight: very dim, cave-like, frigidly cold and oppressive probationary year. Highlight: discovering that very few teachers are like those I worked with during the lowlight year!
Posted by going_lala
Highlight: becoming a teacher.
Lowlight: not being able to be a teacher.
Posted by bigjimmy
Lowlight: I was made redundant from a previous job. Highlight: becoming a teacher. Teaching was always a Plan B if things went wrong. There’s no realistic job I’d rather be doing and my only real complaint is lack of time.
Posted by Aldo 1983
High point: passing my PGDE(s) course. It was a close-run thing, thanks to a dodgy placement school I found myself in, that was filled with total b******s who just seemed to delight in the suffering of students. Low point: the almighty struggle to find work, which resulted in me having to leave my home town and my family behind.
Posted by davieee
I absolutely LOVE teaching. It is a thoroughly challenging, amazing, inspiring, frustrating at times but rewarding position to be in.
Posted by Aldo 1983
No matter how hard you try, you always feel a bit inadequate, though.
Posted by lelseydramaqueen
Highlight: getting out of the worst school in Scotland (I’m not joking! Check the league tables). Lowlight: really missing that school!
www.tes.co.ukscotland, then click on forums and opinion.
