So now it is official: we have a teacher retention crisis which is as serious as the teacher recruitment shortage.
In the 12 months to November 2014, state schools lost nearly 50,000 teachers. This is the highest leaving rate for more than 10 years; it equates to a 10 per cent rise in teachers leaving the profession in the three years between 2011 and 2014.
Faced with such worrying figures, it is clear that much more needs to be done to make teaching a more attractive career, and to find out just what is driving teachers away from the classroom.
From the evidence which we have collected recently, it is clear that bad behaviour is blighting too many teachers’ professional lives, and, alongside teachers’ workload, is a major cause of classroom flight.
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