We declare ourselves part of the teacherROAR movement

I watch in dismay and despair my teacher son who's social life is non existstant. All time spent working, planning, and jumping through hoops to justify his position and appease this government. He spends a fortune of his own money buying resources to make lessons more interesting for his class of 9 year olds. Not an easy catchment area, 40% of his class are children whose first language is not English. Target targets and tables. Here is a radical idea, let teachers teach!

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.

Pressure in academies that are rated as 3 by last Ofsted becoming unbearable. If you're in SLT position it's like Premier League manager syndrome- you really are only as good as your last set of results. Years of success can become meaningless as you jump through more puerile hoops to justify your position.

In many years I have been involved in education, as a TA and now as a Teacher, I cannot believe how the pressure has increased! So many of the jobs I have to find the time to do into own precious time at home are a complete waste! Data and number crunching to prove myself is the most ridiculous task I have done so far! All I want to do is be the best teacher I can for my wonderful class of seven year olds and I find myself being torn away from them on a daily basis to meet the needs of this government!! Give us back our time, time to be the teachers we want to be, time to talk to our children without rushing them and time to make their educational experience the best possible!

Education can't be run like a business or yo line the pockets of the privileged few. Children learn in different ways and at different rates and done things aren't measurable. Over testing is creating a generation of one dimensional children who don't have the skills

Listen to the REAL experts - those who do the job...!

This system is causing students to be switched off before they even get to me in secondary school, because they believe they are "thick" after repeated drilling for SATs tests in promary. It is also causing many excellent teachers to leave the profession or work all hours of the day and night to keep their heads' above water.

An education system for children not politicians!

It's time. This has gone on long enough.

It is time for education (and healthcare and emergency services) to be managed by cross-party committees to remove the politicisation of these essential services and take long term decisions in the interests of the people being served and not in the interests of political parties.

We owe it to the children to reclaim education. Education is not a competitive sport. Let's increase the sum of human knowledge

Privatising and turning children into products and statistics is wrong!

Gove will have to listen one day

Politicians and their advisers come and go but as teachers we have a moral imperative to do what is best for children,

I do bits of daily supply cover now . I am old enough to remember teaching being just difficult or "Challenging" . I get a good deal of work now , particularly towards end - of -terms , because teachers are dropping like flies . More than half the stuff they they now do is not for their benefit and has no IMPACT on students / children . Teachers are are filling forms and compiling data so auditors and "bean - counters" have some data to provide to fatuous demagogues .

I have been a TA for the past 13 years and have watched successive governments change things without any thought. Education cannot be dealt with by governments they are not in it for the long term, they can be out in 4 years, teachers are in it for much longer. I have watched my teacher friends exhausted with each new edict or government missive. Hours and hours spent filling in the same information onto different forms and chart to simply prove they have done it and for no educational improvement. Leave the education system to the people who know about it, the teachers, and not to those who think that just because they went to school, they know all about teaching!!

I am a newly qualified art teacher and I am horrified by it all. I did not go through university, do a masters, a pgce, get myself into thousands of pounds worth of debt, work myself into the ground every day, taking home emotional baggage from pupils to then have the job that I love and worked hard for being slandered in the media, for politicians (who have no concept of mainstream/special needs education) to use for their own political gain. You should all be ashamed, it should be about the pupils and what they need... Shame on you.

Time for people to realise that we do this job because we care and work 70+ hours a week to be slagged off by MPs and Ministers who need to come and work at the coalface to understand how dedicated we are as a profession. If they persist with this nonsense rhetoric, we should work to rule and do what they think we do. No more. No less.

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.

As politicians are increasingly impotent in the face of global economic forces, they naturally turn their attention to areas where their need for aggrandisement can run free. Education is one of these areas. Politicians unearth an ever increasing series of problems which they can "solve". Children are never foregrounded in this; rather the ambitions and vanity projects of a succession of ministers are run up the flagpole for an increasingly suspicious workforce to salute.