Don't Move to England to Teach Until You Know THIS (ep. 1.1)

Thinking of teaching in England? Think again.

Ex-Teacher Reveals the Dark Side of Teaching in England.
This series has 3 main goals. The primary goal is to warn the international community about the reality of teaching in England, hopefully giving them enough information to realise that the best decision is to avoid teaching in England like their lives depend on it. My secondary goal is to inform the English public why nobody wants to teach in the UK. My third and final reason is a secret.

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[abc_]

A kid attacked you with a racist rant and wasn't expelled? That certainly is terrible. Want to hear what happened in my school? A 14-year-old pulled out a knife and stabbed a fellow student during an argument. In the chest, no less. The victim nearly died. Ten days later, the assailant was back in school. "We believe in giving kids a second chance, " Admin told me when I complained. Yeah, right. What they really cared about was not having an expulsion on their record. I'm glad I left teaching. It's all about appearances; expulsions are recorded and become public information. The stabbing itself was reported in the news without identifying the school, so there was no parental pressure to get rid of the boy.

[Jvulux]

When I was in high school, every lesson was disrupted by groups of hooligans causing trouble for the rest of the class, wasting everyone's time and disrupting our learning. These troublemakers showed superiority and control over the class, with their followers making the situation even worse.

My math class was the worst. Our teacher was bullied relentlessly, to the point where he was unable to teach. They subjected him to physical and mental abuse, threatening to accuse him of misconduct to get him in trouble. When he wrote on the board, they would throw things at his back and head, and some even slapped him on the face. The constant torment left him mentally crippled, and he eventually went on sick leave and never returned. We had a couple of temporary teachers after that, but they also left quickly.

In the end, we were left to learn on our own during math classes. The hooligans made so much noise, threw things, and fought, making it impossible even for self-study. Frustrated, a group of five students, including myself, requested an empty classroom so we could study on our own. I was also bullied, which made my school experience even more challenging.

[ieltsadam]

I am an ESL teacher. I’ve taught in Spain, Korea and England. I would never, ever, in a billion years, work in a British primary or secondary school. I went to them. The schools I went to were average, not even bad, but I remember how it was, and I remember how teachers were treated. Most of them would leave after 1-2 years. There’s no control at all. Teachers have zero respect at all. Parents actively encourage students to disrespect their teachers

[CarlitoGio]

I teach English language and literature in China. I’m from the UK and grew up there but schools weren’t this horrible as a kid. The issue is kids having kids and parents not knowing how to parent. I’ve worked in Mexico, Ecuador, Spain, France and China. I’ve had a great time but when I worked in the UK as a Teacher Assistant I hated it. I could see teachers being drained from the workload plus the bad behaviour. I was thinking of trying out and teaching in the UK but I’ve heard too many negative aspects from friends that I’m better off staying where I am, where I can teach, and save 80% of what I earn.

[solarinspacee]

Mr Rufaeel I was in one of your classes (9G1) and I completely understand why you would stop teaching, some of the students at this school are horid.

[AshleyVictoria]

So true! You’re giving me flashbacks to teaching in England 💀 I was literally thankful when Covid happened because I was never going to catch up on marking my books

[Dayrile]

I'm not an international teacher, so have no other reference point/experience of other education systems. But I can also confirm it is bloody awful and I am desperate to leave. It's hard to know what to do though.

[tessellatiaartilery]

That students can't take their notebooks home is unbelievable. I used to review all my class notes at home every night. Ofsted sounds utterly toxic and sabotaging both teachers and students. Thank you for this enlightening and engaging video. I have decided never to go back to teach in the UK!

[billmartins]

I have a Bachelor, Master, and PhD degree in an in-demand science. I'm from another European country but now live in the UK. I seriously considered teaching but visiting two schools, reading about experiences on online spaces, watching videos etc helped me decide it's not for me (I left a detailed comment on the video of the American teacher where you were a guest). The main issues are that I think the UK education system is crap, pupil behaviour is an issue, and on my school visits I sat in on a class of a very mediocre teacher so I'd worry about my future colleagues' competencies.

[zamzamhassan]

I can’t agree more. Don’t ever teach in England! I was a primary school teacher doing my first year ECT last year and was treated so awful by the school and the ECT board. I accepted a job as a Year 6 teacher after all the promises of having a TA and SLTs full support. The whole autumn term I was left alone with the children with no support. My mentor was another year 6 experienced teacher that was given the capable students working at expected level whilst I was given the bad behaved and working below key stage level children, she didn’t support me or mentor me she actually went around telling other staff members how I was a sh*t teacher. Come January my headteacher out right told me I was a diversity hire since the school had a large population of Muslim student and I was put in that position to fit the quota as a Muslim woman. He also told me that I will be basically a TA in my own class for the whole spring term whilst the assistant head took over my class to get the children through SATs! I was constantly undermined and told not to take it personally. When I complained to my ECT board they basically told my school to put me on a support plan and looked out for the school instead of me. Due to the stress levels I ended up in hospital for a week. Although I had a horrible experience I built a great relationship with the students and parents and promised I won’t give up on them so I completed the year! Now I live and work in Kuwait as a teacher and will never look back! Thanks for your videos and for telling the truth about schools in England.

[patrickcon]

This is an absolutely brilliantly crafted critique, Mr Rufaeel, I tip my hat to you, sir. I experienced OFSTED on eight occasions, notably gaining scores of 7 and 1 for my teaching at two distinct schools within a six--week period (7 being the lowest grade; 1 being the highest possible score) I was a SENCO at an inner-city school who then went on to do two years of supply teaching (mostly inner city) I then kicked off my international school teaching career in Spain, before moving to Wales, England (again) India and China. I've been through the mill. You speak the truth!

[JG-ffdq]

I’m about to watch the other parts to this now but wanted to thank you for the effort you made when you came into my school to try and make my geography lessons as interesting and engaging as possible. Also want to apologise for the added stress myself and/or fellow classmates gave you during this horrendous experience you seemed to have had.
This video is interesting, well put together and really quite damning and I could feel your frustration intensely the whole way through!

[roops]

The UK will not mention to foreign skilled workforce seeking to come to work in the UK about how bad the infrastructure is. The housing stock is rubbish. The roads are rubbish, roadworks, road closures, cameras to raise stealth tax from drivers etc. The health service is dead, people seeing non medically trained people like car mechanics or chemists instead of doctors. High cost of living. High cost of rent. High taxes. A rubbish railway infrastructure. High crime rates and so. Why would any foreign worker want to locate to the UK? There's no hope. They elect Do-Nothing governments so NOTHING will be done. In fact it will get worse. How are migrant workers supposed to get to work IF their roads are constantly suffering from never-ending roadworks which are clogged with heavy traffic? Why are rail fares SO EXPENSIVE and trains unreliable? How are they supposed to get to and from work??? IF foreign workers are spending more time working for low salaries and in commuting, what does that say about work life balance?? Avoid, is my advice to ANY foreign workers, unless you want a victorian workhouse experience . Seems to be run by highly paid clowns. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

[jesusedits]

I honestly was about to go into teaching in the UK but had a nightmare about it so decided to do some research, so thankful for your videos dude

[amyrehal]

Thank you so much for doing this. I also naively taught in England and it was the worst experience ever. Kudos to you for taking the time out and preventing others from making the same mistakes. 👏👏👏

[susank.]

I was accosted on Linked-In to teach in the UK and was thinking of it (even tho I have a BF and 2 cats here), but I figured the shortage is because of the similar issues here in the USA (we have teachers from abroad, especially the Philippines). I taught ESL in S.Korea and thought it was very easy, but I left for personal reasons. I have a step-brother and his family in rural England, but I think I will pass... (saw your interview with Trish on Teacher Therapy originally)

[wesleyjohnson]

I’ve no connection to teaching, but I stumbled across this channel, and I’m so sorry you had this experience here. As an English person I’m very ashamed and so sorry you experienced this. But please know not all of us are this way. I’m not sure what the solution is. Personally I don’t like the whole public school system in the west, I didn’t enjoy school myself. The whole one size fits all approach to education and the massive focus on academia, it’s a total scam in my opinion. I would like my kids to be homeschooled but obviously that comes with various impracticalities. We seem to follow the US in most things, and have become an aggressively individualistic and selfish society over many years. Big shame.

[TheBigThinker]

Thank u for this work to make ppl aware

[carolineskipper]

Just hopping in on the amount of marking involved - a primary school teacher, who teaches the same 30 kids all day every day, will be expected to mark at least 3 pieces of work per child every day, for 190 days in the year, which comes out to over 17000 pieces of work per year. I know secondary/high school students produce longer pieces of work than lower primary age- but the pieces of work still need to be marked in line with the school's marking policy, including 'corrections' or improvements/ developments to be made next lesson.Woe betide the teacher if a book scrutiny reveals a single unmarked piece of work! (I once got hauled over the coals because I had used a purple pen instead of pink because there were literally NO PINK PENS left in school, and mine had run out (I had chosen to use purple because a) it was a bit pink, and b) it wasn't a colour used for any other purpose, and so I felt its meaning was clear. My Bad)

[AnnaMaxted-vc]

I don’t think I’d want to teach there - thank you