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King of the Road: 10 Years Later


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It's ten years ago this month that I first lost my job in teaching. Academisation and restructuring pushed me to a position of 'voluntary redundancy' with the teaching union claiming it as 'a victory'; that 'no jobs were lost'.

There are a couple of standout moments in my teaching career that are imprinted on my memory.

'No jobs have been lost'

The first is the comment above, from a well-known teaching union representative from North London who stood up in front of the teaching staff to report that he was 'pleased that they were no

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23rd May 202117th November 2021 by @TeacherToolkit
Posted in Basic Account, Pastoral, Staff Well Being, WorkloadTagged 10 years later..., autonomy, Failing Schools, Freddie McGill, Ofsted, Parenting, Premature, Premature Birth, Prematurity, redundancy, teaching unions

2 thoughts on “King of the Road: 10 Years Later”

  1. Bianca Prussat-Collett says:
    23rd May 2021 at 8:41 am

    Dear Ross
    The post King of the road moved me so much that I need to write a reply to you at once. I was VP for teaching and learning for 4 yeArs across two Harris Academies and the same restructuring happened and I was forced into VR. Since then I have applied for about 11 leadership posts, usually get the first round of the interview process but am told that many employers see the word redundancy as a potential capability issue and the agreed referee as part of the settlement with a pinch of salt. In my case this is not true and my executive head vouches for this as the order to cut the VPs came from higher up in Harris and he had no choice. I have become so demoralised, knowing t how to turn T and L around, am research driven but feel many heads see me as a threat potentially. Out of desperatere I have signed up to do supply and think whether I need to do a mole approach , work myself back up from the bottom until someone sees my potential. You are so successful and well known across the teaching profession. I would love to have advice from you how you got yourself out of this hole, I would love to spread my experience beyond one school setting but just don’t know right now how to get into this, would love your guidance but completely understand if this mail gets unnoticed as you are a big organisation with a huge remits.
    Kind regards and happy birthday to Freddie.
    Bianca

    1. @TeacherToolkit says:
      23rd May 2021 at 10:34 pm

      Dear Bianca. I know this story well. Send me a voicemail straight away and let’s get to work!

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