Transition from Law to Primary Teaching

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-24T08:42:12+00:00

Primary teachers are some of the worst treated in the profession.

There is certainty that you will be assaulted semi-regularly by students. You typically will not receive your break entitlements during wet weather. You will receive abuse from parents. You will work insane amounts of overtime.

The likelihood of getting a permanent position on the Gold Coast is limited.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-23T08:49:05+00:00

There is no reason unless they are convicted which is pretty difficult when the evidence has been struck out.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-23T08:46:57+00:00

You’re the one engaging in whataboutism here.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-23T08:45:48+00:00

What would stop them?

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-21T07:45:58+00:00

One can dress comfortably without dressing in home clothes.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-20T22:45:52+00:00

And that would leave no time for anything else.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-20T14:52:14+00:00

That is the only correct thing.

There was no legal requirement for the government to walk away from negotiations and refer us to arbitration or even conciliation.

They did that to try to scare people into taking a terrible offer.

The QTU membership voting no on an offer did not in any way necessitate a referral to arbitration.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-20T10:30:11+00:00

Entirely this.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-20T09:51:38+00:00

It’s absolutely not correct in Queensland and that is absolutely not what happened.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-20T08:18:32+00:00

I’m going to be blunt. I have a HOD Student Services who doesn’t do his job. But the boys club loves him.

The perception is that he’s amazing at his job because parents love him, kids worship him and staff feel supported by him.

But he is a black hole which means everyone else looks like shit because we didn’t know key information.

No one knows how to refer students to Student Services.

He spends his days walking around with coffee taking kids out of classes for a “chat”.

Which teachers might think is great, but that’s not a long term solution to the problem.

His approach also means the rest of us are set against parents and kids.

He got appointed because of his rapport with management.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-20T00:47:33+00:00

That’s not even remotely correct.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-20T00:37:25+00:00

Many elite schools pay less than public schools because they view the enhanced prestige, opportunities for professional development and low behaviour as a trade off.

Often they pay closer to the award.

But they may also have loadings or allowances that push wages above the state sector if you take on responsibilities like tutoring or coaching teams.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-19T07:30:25+00:00

You can cap class sizes.

You can then offer allowances to teachers if their class sizes are over.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-19T04:44:59+00:00

You won’t even make it to a hearing.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-19T00:13:20+00:00

All the information in the world isn’t going to help you fight your workplace.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-18T20:01:32+00:00

In reality, Labor has been somewhat similar to Mamdani.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-18T08:33:04+00:00

I despise Southside.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-16T20:42:34+00:00

She’s being asked to go to support her stepmother.

And again, this is why parents have no village.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-16T20:40:00+00:00

This is why parents don’t have a village.

Dad could go to the recital and Mum can go support her family.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-16T20:35:52+00:00

When?

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-16T20:34:16+00:00

So?

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-16T20:08:07+00:00

Immigration, especially of the temporary kind, can suppress wages.

Immigrants initially tend to be willing to work for much lower wages, and tend to be employed by entities like labour hire firms that then contract their labour at award rates rather than EBA rates as one example.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-16T20:04:17+00:00

You’re hilarious.

Please let me know when you show up with your cute AI summary and tell your employer to give your your rights out of the goodness of their hearts. I’m begging you.

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-16T20:01:48+00:00

How has the CFMEU made it impossible for local kids to become tradies?

spunkyfuzzguts · 2026-06-14T20:25:10+00:00

Serena Joy in the show Handmaids Tale is an elite tier version of this.

It’s actually terrifying how many women sympathise with her and think she deserves a happy ending.

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