Why I left my first teaching job: ‘No support, no training, no care for the kids’

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Education / Why I left my first teaching job: ‘No support, no training, no care for the kids’

This view from a school gives an insight into why so many of our teachers are feeling so demoralised.

17 Mar 2023 ,
Education / Support our teachers; save our schools!

It is not only their present ability to exist that Britain’s teachers are fighting for, but our children’s future.

14 Mar 2023 ,
Social wage / Hungry schoolchildren; another sign of a failed system

When an economic system can’t provide basics like food and warm shelter to its people, it is time for it to be replaced.

22 Oct 2022 , Proletarian

Pay and conditions / Bringing Kaplan to book: time to get organised in the gig economy

A reminder that the whole reason for having trade unions is to fight the workers’ corner everywhere.

21 Feb 2021 ,
Education / Marketisation of services to vulnerable children exposes true values of liberal democracy

Never has the gap between human and capitalist logic been so glaringly apparent.

15 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
British politics / Boris’s chapter of accidents

As the covid emergency progresses, the prime minister is jumping from one fiasco to another, exposing his many inadequacies to full public view.

23 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
Industry / ‘Back to work’ stampede – and may the devil take the hindmost

Reopening schools and workplaces without proper safety measures highlights the government’s true priorities.

20 May 2020 , Proletarian
Education / Sabotage of state schools

Growing privatisation and austerity is eroding the hard-won right to an education for our children.

17 Nov 2019 ,
Education / Our schools need more than money

It is not only cuts that are devastating and gutting our schools but privatisation and outsourcing.

24 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
Education / Teachers given pay rise, but schools forced to pay

Government will fund a 0.75 percent increase, with schools told to find most of the required cash from their own budgets.

8 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
Education / Thousands of children are taught in classes that are too big

Reverse privatisation and create an education system that serves the real needs of both society and individuals.

4 Jul 2019 ,
Pay and conditions / Glasgow: Teachers take to the streets

Pay and conditions in the profession continue to decline, leading to a retention and recruitment crisis in our schools.

16 Nov 2018 , Proletarian
Education / Decent education for all

If we want a society worth living in, education should be high-quality, free, universal, lifelong and publicly provided. Profit-taking has no place in classrooms.

27 Oct 2018 ,
Education / School exclusions create prisoners, not reformed pupils

With ever more social problems manifesting in the classroom, and support staff and services being axed, draconian methods of ‘behaviour management’ are on the rise.

28 Sep 2018 , Proletarian
Education / The insanity of school league tables

From cheating in public schools to expulsion of ‘weaker’ students in state schools – competition in education is the enemy of true excellence.

1 Oct 2017 , Proletarian
Education / Kids’ strike over school tests

Kids boycott SAT tests as parents demand: ‘Let our kids be kids’.

1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian

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The west wants to leverage Estonia against Russia
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The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’
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Caracas anti-imperialist rally declares: One enemy, one fight!
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Why is the BLM movement so quiet about the murder of Tyre Nichols?
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France is losing its dominance in west Africa
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JK Rowling’s stance against the thought police
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Israel elections – even more racism and even nastier fascists
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DPRK pledges firm support for Russia
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Many councils have crippling gambling debts. Workers will be paying the bill

Schools highlights

Education / Why I left my first teaching job: ‘No support, no training, no care for the kids’

This view from a school gives an insight into why so many of our teachers are feeling so demoralised.

Education / Support our teachers; save our schools!

It is not only their present ability to exist that Britain’s teachers are fighting for, but our children’s future.

Social wage / Hungry schoolchildren; another sign of a failed system

When an economic system can’t provide basics like food and warm shelter to its people, it is time for it to be replaced.

Pay and conditions / Bringing Kaplan to book: time to get organised in the gig economy

A reminder that the whole reason for having trade unions is to fight the workers’ corner everywhere.

Education / Marketisation of services to vulnerable children exposes true values of liberal democracy

Never has the gap between human and capitalist logic been so glaringly apparent.

British politics / Boris’s chapter of accidents

As the covid emergency progresses, the prime minister is jumping from one fiasco to another, exposing his many inadequacies to full public view.

Industry / ‘Back to work’ stampede – and may the devil take the hindmost

Reopening schools and workplaces without proper safety measures highlights the government’s true priorities.

Education / Sabotage of state schools

Growing privatisation and austerity is eroding the hard-won right to an education for our children.

Education / Our schools need more than money

It is not only cuts that are devastating and gutting our schools but privatisation and outsourcing.

Education / Teachers given pay rise, but schools forced to pay

Government will fund a 0.75 percent increase, with schools told to find most of the required cash from their own budgets.

Education / Thousands of children are taught in classes that are too big

Reverse privatisation and create an education system that serves the real needs of both society and individuals.

Pay and conditions / Glasgow: Teachers take to the streets

Pay and conditions in the profession continue to decline, leading to a retention and recruitment crisis in our schools.

Education / Decent education for all

If we want a society worth living in, education should be high-quality, free, universal, lifelong and publicly provided. Profit-taking has no place in classrooms.

Education / School exclusions create prisoners, not reformed pupils

With ever more social problems manifesting in the classroom, and support staff and services being axed, draconian methods of ‘behaviour management’ are on the rise.

Education / The insanity of school league tables

From cheating in public schools to expulsion of ‘weaker’ students in state schools – competition in education is the enemy of true excellence.

Education / Kids’ strike over school tests

Kids boycott SAT tests as parents demand: ‘Let our kids be kids’.

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