With all the children being sent home for the foreseeable and with parents now trying to manage any work they have been given there will be a large number of households where the realisation that the teacher wasn’t the problem will be beginning to dawn.
As a retired teacher could I suggest that if you`ve not done the job yourself recently to try to support teachers who are always the whipping boy/person. I have heard that teachers are now being employed to walk around in the sewers as a cure for constipation - nobody can resist crapping on a teacher.
I think it's the same with most of our issues - they like to find soundbites that will stir up a bit of controversy - I bet there were hundreds of teachers calling in saying they were happy to do their bit, but they chose the more 'interesting' ones to put on air.
We saw the same with Brexit - again I'm sure there may have been some intelligent people wanting to leave, but they'd only interview some toothless gammon who hated brown people.....
Absolutely. I know a fair few teachers, none of them come even remotely close to the 'soft winging' caricature that Stewart describes.
