Teacher Subject Shortages

Just on the German shortage, this also has a secondary problem. Because of the shortage of teachers, the quality of whats available can something be dire. In our place, we have excellent German teachers, but when there is a role to be filled (maternity, sick leave, etc) the quality of the sub has been woeful or worse! This damages the subject, as since parents rightly talk, they are less likely to pick German for fear of that teacher.

I'd say your English teacher definitely didn't have it easy.

Why personal attacks. I'm a teacher?

There is no teacher shortage. There is a male gender shortage in teaching.

Nobody really cares about the gender disparity in teaching.

The jealousy is strong in this one

So teaching is easy, but people don’t want to do it because they are lazy and don’t want to do an easy job because they could do a more difficult job and earn twice as much? Gotcha.

So you consider half your wages well paid and people should be happy with that? Your point is clear as mud.

Never more than 20 class hours a week eh!

Where do you get your knowledge from, ?

Why is this guy allowed to post on here, spouting these "facts"?

Interesting. In fact, we cannot have more than 22 hours, not 20 hours, in actual teaching time/in front of class. Moreover, it will evidently surprise you to learn that Irish secondary school teachers have one of the longest teaching contact time in the OECD. At second-level (lower and upper), for instance, only five countries in the OECD have teachers who spend longer teaching each week than Irish teachers do. Only one of these, the Netherlands, is in the EU.

Data here: https://data.oecd.org/teachers/teaching-hours.htm

Thoroughly deserved it is too ☺️