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Number of teachers unemployed

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  • #52
    Alex Meier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 663 ✭✭✭Alex Meier


    Gebgbegb wrote: »
    In fairness though any mention of Teaching issues in the media is typically immediately whitewashed with deflection and strawman arguments about Summer holidays/great pensions/22 hrs work.

    Ive yet to hear this topic mentioned without sidetracking. I wouldnt blame anyone for being lured in by the land of milk and honey that teaching is purported to be.

    As regards universities churning them out, ya pays yer money, ya takes yer choice. Still plenty of courses in creative writing but very few making money. The rubbish that some lecturers spout though is sickening, we were also told about the millions of retirements coming up and how lucky we were!

    This.

    There are too many people who want to become teachers who do not realise what an energy sapping, demanding and stressful job secondary teaching has become.

    You cannot even compare it to five years ago.

    When I started teaching 15 years ago . . Teachers actually enjoyed their jobs.

    I'm seeing that less and less now.


  • #53
    katydid
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭katydid


    Alex Meier wrote: »
    This.

    There are too many people who want to become teachers who do not realise what an energy sapping, demanding and stressful job secondary teaching has become.

    You cannot even compare it to five years ago.

    When I started teaching 15 years ago . . Teachers actually enjoyed their jobs.

    I'm seeing that less and less now.
    It's impossible to know what any job is like until you actually do it.

    As a teacher of 34 years experience, I still love teaching. It's all the other bits I hate...


  • #54
    ethical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭ethical


    Teaching has changed considerably over the past 30 years it would seem. Infact teaching is suffering as there is less and less time given over to it due to 'all the other things' non-teacher related that has become part of the profession.Of course it would be very interesting to find out what the rate of teacher unemployment actually is.As we are all too aware (and some of us more than others) is the amount of young teachers that are living off titbits of teaching hours. Then there are the teachers who had to emigrate over 20 years ago ,in the previous economic downturn,who are,in some cases back in the system again but will have to work on until they are 68 years of age or more in order to get a full pension.Some of them love their profession but there are others that are stuck doing it for economic circumstances. Speaking to a few colleagues ,the other day,it pains us greatly to look at the mess we are in as a profession.We look around and see members of the Gardai retiring after giving their 35 years service and them still quite young men and women,with their pensions secured.Fair play to them I would not do their job for one minute! One colleague reckons that their will be 'another cull' as he put it to 'get rid' of the teachers around the age of 50 so as to make way for the younger graduates who will be much cheaper to employ and will have to work longer in order to have any pension rights.Unfortunately Ireland is a very 'Mé Féin' society that does not give a damn about how the system is failing,our political leaders are in it for themselves and really couldn't care less about our young people other than the odd soundbite when there is an election looming.


  • #55
    katydid
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭katydid


    ethical wrote: »
    T. Then there are the teachers who had to emigrate over 20 years ago ,in the previous economic downturn,who are,in some cases back in the system again but will have to work on until they are 68 years of age or more in order to get a full pension.

    They can't do that. They (we) have to retire at 65. That generation, who went abroad and came back in then nineties, are paying a fortune every month in AVC's in order to make up for the service years they've lost.


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