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What's wrong with teachers today. (First Person).(ex-teacher on why he left profession)
I USED TO BE PART of the teaching "brat pack" at my first school. There were four of us: young, male, sporty, energetic. We had a healthy disdain for the school administration and the lively staff politics but worked extremely hard nonetheless. We were, without boasting, good teachers in a renowned Sydney independent school.
Last year, having taught for eight years, I became the last, in what now seemed an inevitable process, to leave the profession. I abandoned one of Australia's more prestigious schools and, in others' eyes, a promising career. Perhaps I lacked the perceptiveness of my departed colleagues in leaving earlier. Perhaps I was a slow learner. ...
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