why have labour and the tories the 2 major parties not paid a single bit of attention to the teacher crisis?

Teaching in schools is a thankless job, especially in inner city schools with the lack of student discipline in many and the huge burden of the curriculum which restricts it even more, parents blaming teachers for their own kids lack of discipline and general bad behaviour ( when it is their job to teach and enforce). Many secondary inner city kids are feral and the first structure they have have ever known is school, so they fight against the structure and their behaviour is supported by their parents wishing to pass the responsibility to someone else as they failed to do their own job.

My teaching passion is in the community and when I was doing my teacher training (having been a community development officer prior) all my fellow teacher training peers always said I was choosing the most difficult career path. Yet I knew I was going to teach the feral ones thrown out of schools and the ones who left with no qualifications who faced no job, no future and had started to realise how they wasted their school days..and their parents who did much the same thing.

I spent a couple of years teaching in primary and secondary schools, then taught in Universities and A levels in a school until I secured my 'dream' job in Community teaching, a job that was far from easy however very rewarding. I was not surprised when we all met up 5 yrs later and only one was still teaching in a secondary school and everyone else was doing something else.

So a good supply of QS teachers are required, people are not going to train nor sign the contract to receive the grant which means they remain in schools teaching unless it is offered, too many inner city secondary schools have to use temp staff and offer short term work visas to bring teachers from other countries to fill the staff vacancies, the cost of that is horrendous and still many of them fail to fulfill their short term contracts....

The public assumes teachers do nothing during the summer holiday which is incorrect it is a time when marking/assessment of work and reports are written, not just for your own class, but for each year group class taught and to also prepare all the official paperwork you do not have the time to get done and for the next school term.

They might be asked why class sizes are enormous and how schools are expected to accommodate immigrants on a daily basis, not a conversation they want to be having.

Sorry but bendy bananas

why do we need teachers? parents should educate their kids instead of relying n the state and been a burden on the tax payer it's sheer laziness.

Isn't this more about PCness gone mad? Human rights come with responsibility. So if the kids are hitting on their teachers, money for teachers won't stop that. More POLICE, and more effective Police, might.

I agree. My daughter is a teacher n a PRU. Every week she comes home covered in bruises. Mainstream schools don't have the staff to cope with these "thugs". Teachers are leaving mainstream schools at an alarming rate. I wouldn't be a teacher for all the tea in China. The whole of the education system needs attention!

I had this conversation yesterday, I don't see how anyone would want to get into horrendous debt training to be a teacher, when the money isn't that good and you get no life whatsoever in term time.

Isn't the answer getting rid of tuition fees? The Labour Party seems to have addressed that one.

Labour have promised to solve the teacher crisis which was caused by Tory austerity.

Not many of those children are actually our indigenous children, so no one really cares.

they seem well enough paid for all the holidays they get, if they are cut out to be teachers.