

“Hey general public, teaching isn’t an episode of Waterloo Road!”
I want to be clear from the outset – this is not a blog about how teachers work harder than everyone else, but it is a blog to state some facts about the work teachers actually do. I think there is a huge public vacuum in terms of the knowledge and understanding people have about what teachers do and why it is a very challenging job. Media, coupled with adult memories of their own schooling (often negative) has led to much of the public, even those supportive of teachers, to