I was actually going to
leave the teaching profession because it was so terrible,» she says.
Mr Gove said: «Under the last government, thousands of great people
left the teaching profession because behaviour was out of control and they were forced to spend far too much time on paperwork.
Not exact matches
These supposedly «best and brightest» teachers were actually 85 percent more likely to
leave the
profession in their first three years — perhaps
because, upon entering a
profession with declining status and pay, they second - guessed their choice to
teach.
For Rebecca Sellers, who used to
teach in the Shelby County Schools but decided to return to Memphis
because she believed her skills were needed in the district's high - poverty schools, the experience has led her to consider
leaving the
profession.
Anecdotally, many of the professionals I meet in my work at CT3 who
left the
teaching profession did so not
because of school leadership, students or salary but rather from not feeling supported in the classroom and instead, isolated.