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MP, Peter Viggers, this week warned that up to 3,260 teachers
could leave Hampshire's schools over the next five years. A
survey conducted by MORI and the General Teaching Council has
found that one in three of all teachers expect to leave teaching
within five years, protesting about workload, government interference
and poor pupil behaviour.
Peter
said, "Since Labour came to power, Hampshire's schools
have been burdened with unnecessary paperwork, gimmicky initiatives
and arbitrary targets. Worse, school discipline has been undermined,
by Whitehall preventing unruly pupils from being expelled.
As a result, this worrying survey reveals that a third of
all teachers may quit in the next five years. Across Hampshire's
schools, we could see an exodus of over 3,000 teachers.
"I
do not believe that Whitehall pen-pushers should be micro-managing
our schools. Instead, we should pledge to make heads, teachers,
governors and parents the key players in driving up standards
of learning and discipline. We will give them the choice to
take control of the running of their own schools".
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