Recruitment and retention: a symptom of a wider issue
We are repeatedly told that there is a recruitment and retention crisis and I think that's true. It is more true if you work in a challenging context. I had never really thought about leaving education - I liked teaching and I like my work in leadership and honestly there is nothing else I could do. But just lately I have been wishing there was another option. Not because I am unhappy or stressed or have an awful work-life balance or dislike my job but because I suspect that at some point the job I am asked to do will become at odds with what I think is right. Education is losing its moral purpose and reaching a crisis point. I didn’t used to think it was. I used to think that people were exaggerating the problems but now I believe it. Education should be the means by which we empower the children in our society but instead it has become an example of survival of the fittest. I am not going to use this post to bash the government (and that doesn’t make me a Tory sympathiser). The