Nearly 10 years of teaching physics in south east London. Conflicted, not wanting to abandon my school and students but struggling to remain motivated enough under this current regime. Genuinely worried about the damage being done to our education system under Gove.

We also need a clear, positive public voice for the profession to counter the continual political attacks on the profession. This petition is one way of uniting all who work in education at a time when state provision is being systematically dismantled.

I want my child to be viewed and valued as an indiviudal and allowed to develop at HIS how pace. I don't want him tested and assessed and made into a statistic. I don't want him feeling like a failure before he's even started his life.

As a retired teacher, I am furious at the mess successive governments have made of the education system in this country. I fully support any efforts made by serving professionals to improve the situation for our children and all in the teaching profession.

Because the future of our children should be guided by experts, not ignorant, blindly populist politicians, bent on turning our schools into grade factories without any consideration for the whole child. @TheDramaArmy supports Teacher Roar.

Teachers should be praised and appreciated for what they do, not constantly criticised. All politicians working in education should actually spend time in schools seeing what teachers do and seeing how much work they do at home before they judge.

One important lesson I learnt fro the 20 year as CoG of a ninner city PS was the the teaching profession was all about short working week and long holidays is a myth - go into any school well before 9 am and after 3pm you will find tthem still at work .if the Government wants quality education denigrating teacher will drive teacher away from the profession - strange you don't get the anti teacher rhetoric directed to the private sector or even free schools. n

We need to be respected as professionals