Leeds reflects on teachers and teaching
In a bid to attract Gen-Z into teaching careers, some schools have introduced measures such as nine-day fortnights and two free periods a week to give them a lie-in. What would you suggest to get more teachers into the profession, and are you/would you become a teacher?
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00:00Teaching's a very difficult job, and I admire the people that really do do teaching,
00:05but I don't think it's the profession for me personally.
00:08But I do admire the people that do want to go into teaching and,
00:11for the next generation, will end up teaching our children.
00:14Well, I think the education system in this country's going to the dogs,
00:18to, you know, to use a cliched phrase.
00:21There's a guy I know from my hometown, he's moving to Dubai to teach there.
00:24Like, if you're teaching and you're a bit of a pushover,
00:27the class will just do whatever, and I don't want to have to experience that.
00:30It's got to be mentally tough as well, I must say.
00:32I'd be that child's teacher.
00:33You'd have to deal with a lot of stress.
00:34You have to be fixed schooled, because you don't want all these insults from
00:39students getting to your head, you know what I mean?
00:40I think this government lacks any kind of vision on how to sort the educational system out.
00:46I think it needs a massive reform.
00:48They need to get back to basics about, well, what is education for?
00:51What is the point of education?
00:53Are we, is it to get jobs?
00:54Because I feel like if so, they're massively
00:57underserving society with the education system we've got.