Teachers Are Leaving The Profession, As The Education Sector Is Stretched To Breaking Point 

The amount of data collection that teachers are required is overwhelming and has nothing to do with the education of students

I spent 30 years as teacher, associating pretty much only with teachers, married to a teacher. Then I retired. Began to find out how the other "half" live. Flee. Get out. Run. You'll have a life.

Principals and executives don’t appreciate teachers

I"m so glad I left the classroom 3 years ago. The system is so broken.

My dad left because of all the extra paperwork, not the teaching itself. He got a call last year asking him to come back because they were shortstaffed and he said ‘no way’.

I started home-schooling my 14yr old son 2 weeks ago. I gave up of the department of education. My son is over the moon happy.

Interesting that they want to fast track international teachers when all they have to do is listen to the ones already here.

Two people I know, who are teachers, told me they couldn't secure a permanent position in a few different schools they worked at. 🤷‍♀️

why oh why would anyone want to be a teacher in the present climate where teachers are not respected, over worked and under-paid. Valuing the profession and compensate them accordingly. No other profession has the 'extras' loaded onto their actual jobs and its a no-brainer that teachers are leaving and those with eyes who are thinking about studying to be a teacher are giving it a miss. I love hearing others say its such an important job but would suspect that these same people are not and would not stand for being compensated so badly.

The teaching profession needs to do what other other industries are doing and that is to automate the menial tasks. For teachers, that means marking reporting and data entry. Also to a lesser extent, it can mean the development of assessment. In Queensland, we write assessment and send it off to the department for approval. It gets flicked back to us for improvements and it can be an arduous process at times. Why can’t the department just send out pre approved assessment options for schools to choose from based on their context?

Notice how these problems of funding, increased work loads stagnant wages affecting not only education but other areas as well, add to this rising costs of services, eg., health, utilities, power, water, etc., etc., that once were publicly owned all these woes are directly proportional to the level of privatization, as billions of profit dollars are syphoned from the public purse. The GST, taxing money that has already being taxed, was a foreboding omen of what people are experiencing now.

A lot of public schools are so run-down, overcrowded, and outdated. The worst public schools, in the poorest conditions, are usually in predominately African-American neighborhoods. Even in middle-income black suburbs, where nicer homes are located, the public schools appear dilapidated. Existing school buildings are not being well maintained by U.S. counties and more new schools need to be constructed. What makes people think that a degreed person would accept and be comfortable working in places that are so poorly maintained?

Generations of Youth moving towards to an Uneducated population. Climate now that holds no interest in educating the youth, simple basic education is lost. Can't image the next few decades filled with youth, young adults who are completely ignorant, this is a crime against youth by not providing education as a basics written in the US Constitution. We'll all experience age groups later in their adult life who will not be employable nor competitive to other nations same age groups in jobs. This is not about any culture/racist fall, simply the US leaders have decided that educating the entire youth groups is not relevant-important in our society. Complete disaster decisions for our nation The USA.

Im a double degree physics graduate and postgraduate in teaching secondary schools but no college will allow me to teach physics hence I resigned and doing casual teaching in kindergarten now and soon looking to career change

After 2 years of remote learning, most of our students have large gaps in their knowledge. Despite this, the Education Department apply pressure to teaching the curriculum at their level. Many students need spend time catching up on what they've missed. The Curriculum needs to change to reflect this - take out the less important studies and double up on English and Math and other essential skills and knowledge.

We need pay increase and less work load. I just can’t take it!

We can pay one athlete $1,000,000.00 a year but we can’t pay our teachers a living wage. We have our priorities wrong. 😢

Gov't has millions for Ukraine, or other forigen country but no money to doctors GP and teachers of Australia

How is he on national TV having a conversation with a nose ring and a moustache?

Start by altering the absurd permanent/casual positions endorsed by the AEU!!!!!

haha government solution for everything - bring in cheap Labour, lol, muppets!

The word data makes me want to puke 🤮 most of it is dirty data made up by the pressure to reach unrealistic targets.

They still have not got the basics in place. In state education, you have the peculiar situation of contracted and permanent staff. Contracts are rarely full time and most contracted staff sit out the 'long' Christmas holidays wondering if there is going to be a job in the following year. Centrelink remain indifferent to the situation. Additionally, contracted staff are given the worst classes in the worst locations and if they refuse, they are identified and face future unemployment. Is there any wonder that they are leaving? People are not fools. Think carefully before embarking on this misadventure.

I'm an American teacher with a Master's. I'll come help Australia. I'm a PE teacher though. I don't think it's as stressful as classroom. I'll have fun.

There are thousands of unemployed teachers in Australia.

Most of the stuff you learn at school is useless anyway once you finish, a lot of it is just a complete waste of time.

They want them to leave want promethium programming. Centralised computer avatar teachers

Australia is now and 5th world nation

Hi, I am currently living in Brazil. I am an american citizen and have a bachelor degree on education and on early childhood and esl and three post graduate degree. I just don´t have the money to go back to american because I have my daughter and husband. Help me please are they recruiting from other country can they help me and my family? What do I do to be recruited to get a teaching job. I am qualified.

The answer to the teacher shortage is to hire teachers from India or China. They don't accept any nonsense and have large classes. They are bright, hard working people who would do the job for low wages. And during the holidays they would be happy to paint and decorate the school and look after the grounds. And they.could teach their own language too.

Less paperwork ❤️

Another BS