For at least a generation successive governments, both labor and liberal, have consistently allowed the pay and conditions of teachers to get worse and worse banking on the fact that the people that enter the profession are passionate about it and have been willing to bear the increasing burden because of it.

It has now gotten to the point that none of the people that I know that are now in teaching not only don't recommend it as a career but actively discourage young people who voice an interest in teaching.

For years we have heard politicians voice the attitude "If you don't like it, get a different job" when current teachers push for improved conditions.

Well motherfuckers, you are now reaping what you have sowed for decades.