[sgt101]

My experience of British teachers is entirely contrary to this. I would employ most of them if they came to work for me - almost all of them are "get job done people people" and they care about their work.

- an acquaintance who is a teacher takes breakfast (at her own expense on a tight salary) into class for all her 8-9 year old students because she knows that some of them don't get fed at home

- my daughters teacher started and runs an engineering class after school for the kids using donations of machinery and components from parents (I gave them a defunct hedge cutter which they stripped down and then rebuilt to show how the motor works)

- the head of the other primary school in town goes to the traveler camps out in the country side and goes door to door to engage the families and persuade them to send their kids to school. He is physically frail, openly gay and anyone who has gone to those camps knows that this is a genuinely risky thing to do - but he does it, every summer, because he cares about the kids. Btw, the fact that he brings them into his school means that he has an extra cohort of really challenging problems every summer which slamdunks into the toilet his chance of further preferment and performance related pay.

I think you should spend some time in schools, perhaps you could see if one of them near you needs a governor - you might learn something.