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I recently met my PE teacher for the 1st time in 33yrs. We chatted about many things but we laughed at how he used to organise the kids to clear the pitches of snow on Friday after school so we could have a chance of playing for the school on Saturday. He and his ilk put so much effort into teaching and extra curricula stuff. I can tell you are still passionate about the profession (fair play to you) but for me it's like all of the other public services these days (all of them), utterly self serving. Professions that constantly and unanimously drone on and on about how hard they work, how poorly paid they are and how dreadful their lot is are simply not to be believed (anyone want to know how hard it is to clean human shit of an sewage works inlet screen or hand excavate pipes in a road?). I suspect all good teachers are leaving or have left. Little hope for the institution of teaching until radical reform. You've lasered in on another example of why it's failing.

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'Gender is not linked to the parts that you were born with, gender is about how you identify,' is a sinister splinter of insanity, dangerous and offensive and ludicrous all in one sticky gobbet. And that is the teacher. I cannot believe what has happened in the past few years. Hey, teacher! Are you fucking insane?

'If you don't like it you need to go to a different school'. If ever a teacher's retort deserved Mike Tyson's fist in the mouth, there it is. Thank god I have no school-age kids.

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