Trying to do the only job I’ve ever loved has been demeaning, demoralising, and financially disastrous. I’m still here, clinging on, but every year feels harder.
It’s had me in bits, especially after my contract being broken six weeks before the two year point. It’s just treating people like scrap. Cheap labour during NQT, cannon fodder during Covid, and utterly worthless now.
This is answer 222 of the 269 written answers that teachers let us quote anonymously in the Scottish Teacher Employment Survey 2026. It answers the survey’s last question: what do the people who make decisions about teacher employment need to know?
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