[wizzwizz4]

Have you ever marked 400 “third-month algebra” assessments? Done “stop playing football in the classrooms” break duty? Teaching requires a lot of skill, but most of the work a teacher does isn't teaching; it's child diplomacy, tedious marking and paperwork. (I wouldn't say as much as 85%, though – and it's not unskilled, either; just largely unpaid.)

[gorgoiler]

You* are right to call out my use of the word unskilled. Teaching is skilled work, but it’s much more blue collar than the job requirements would have you believe.

Driving a fork lift truck is skilled work. Plumbing a house is skilled work. Felling a tree is skilled work. I have never done any of these jobs but I believe the majority of work a teacher does has a lot more in common with this kind of labour than it does with, say, maintaining a web-based Rust build infrastructure.

*plural