Teaching jobs

Press, 9 August 1980, Page 14

Teaching jobs

Sir, — The Education Department is again, through the press and the TV, attempting to lure young men and women into becoming teachers. Each year those who compose these advertisements use the same emotive cliches — “a rewarding job,” “a challenge,” etc. They are all so false. Apart from the salaries, which admittedly are very good, there are no other rewards. To face dull, uninterested pupils day after day, month after month is anything but rewarding. To say teaching is a “challenge” -is silly; any work is a challenge whether it be in the office or the workshop and teaching has nothing to recommend it in this respect. Other walks of life may be boring but teaching most certainly possesses no special appeal over other jobs; that is what it is, another job. Teaching can no longer be regarded as a profession since teachers have leapt into the noisyarena of trade unionism, using the weapons of the “stop-work” and the threatened strike.—Yours, etc., G. C. BLISS. Augustfi, 1980.