teachers

[mike.mckenzie]

Teachers? those would be the barely educated "college drops outs", who in my experience cannot spell, let alone teach.
It is with little wonder our children are illiterate on leaving school.
these will be the same people who cannot command respect let alone attention from their young charges,
and they are the same people who are leaving teaching because, they cannot touch / comfort / discipline a child in their care,
teachers are not what they used to be,
and maybe they shouldn't be, but children do go to school to learn and the very least a parent can hope for is a competent teacher in place.

I have friends who are teachers,
I have relatives who were teachers, but I would not thank them to be in the position of "teaching" my child.

What a ridiculous, illogical and ill educated post this is. College dropouts? Have you been watching too much American TV? Our teachers have to pass a degree in a relevant field and then study intensively for a PGCE, fight for a placement as part of the course and then hope to get a job at the end of it, there are no guarantees.

You're making a badly thought out sweeping statement based on a little knowledge of a certain cross section of your experience. Your bad experience is not a microcosm of teaching across a nation, what an absolutely preposterous statement.

Your lack of thought is bordering on offensive.

Also, your comment leads far too easily to comment upon the standard of your English. Not up to much is it? Any "barely educated college drops outs" (sic) would be able to take a red pen to it and sign it off with a big "See Me".

Also, I'm not a teacher.