Teachers need permission to speak to media, but whistleblowers want you to know what’s really going on in NSW schools hit by staff shortages.
The school bell rings and the halls fill with yelling and scuffling as a mass movement of teenagers makes its way along a corridor.
This regional NSW high school is 12 teachers short on this mid May day — almost a quarter of its teaching staff."A lot of those kids had double maths yesterday afternoon too without a teacher. So they missed out again today," says Grant. The reasons for shortages and where they are felt most in New South Wales are varied. An older workforce, a drop in graduate teacher numbers, and a growing student population form part of a complex picture.
"I'll have to quickly duck down and get her lesson for her so that she can teach that in 20 minutes time," says Scott. Enterprise bargaining between the NSW Teachers Federation and government collapsed in December last year, and now, teachers have taken to the streets.
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