As schools struggle to find staff for key roles, heads tell families to demand action from their MPs and to back strikers
: “Try and appoint a science teacher and then tell me again how great the pay is.” He said his school had advertised for posts in science four times without a single application or inquiry.
David Robertson, a maths teacher at a secondary academy in south-east England, said: “We have had to recruit two teachers who aren’t qualified in maths into our team of eight. Students are losing the love of the subject.” Robertson said the deputy headteacher at his school now spends most evenings trying to find supply teachers. “One group of children have had 60% of their lessons taught by cover staff,” he added.
He added: “Parents might not be aware that their child is being taught physics by a biologist or a sports scientist, but they are noticing when they have a supply teacher for a period of time because of shortages.” He said: “I think it is incumbent on school leaders to explain to parents the impact of more than a decade of underfunding of schools.” He added that problems recruiting and keeping staff were “the central issue” for heads now and inadequate pay was the biggest contributing factor.
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