Education system in shock as top teacher resigns from the GTCS
If one is a trained teacher and wishes
to work within the state education system, one is required to be registered with
the General Teaching Council of Scotland (GTCS). Depending on circumstances,
the annual fee is paid by the registrant themselves or their employer.
Obviously, there should be regulation
of entry to the profession and some oversight of teacher development and
conduct; however, in common with most (all?) of our institutions charged with representing
and protecting us, they now do the opposite. The why, how and who of this
development is increasingly coming to the fore of our minds.
But what to do? Hence, my resignation:
With respect
to your query regarding my decision to not renew my annual GTCS subscription:
I am
responding to your request as a courtesy, but mainly for the sake of my
conscience and partly as a reassurance to others who may read this, that they
may know that they are not alone in their concerns.
I note with
alarm the conversion of the GTCS from an administrative body usefully managing
the list of those deemed qualified to teach to a globalist front promoting
worthless science and destructive pedagogy. Through bureaucratic bloat, and
leadership devoid of wisdom and moral courage, it has become the conduit for
all the deceitful narratives and useless ideas that discharge into the
classroom, making the very stress and dysfunction it absurdly reports on. It is thusly a major contributor to the
creation of a school culture at odds with reality and hence dependent on propaganda
to carry its claims and policies.
I note with disappointment, but not surprise, that
the GTCS in its pronouncements and comments on educational topics has not
noticed any patterns behind the relentless fakery and Utopian deceptions. Apparently
sees no issue with the ever more intrusive digital solutions proffered by our
IT overlords. Nor noticed the countless millions spent on tomorrow’s
educational garbage, or that every fix further embeds the problem. Endless waste, meaningless clichés
and inevitable failure, all at top dollar, describes its Curriculum for
Excellence mission.
No other generation of
teachers has had to endure the infiltration and subversion of their workplace
to the extent that ours has. And no other
generation of pupils has had to endure such psychological manipulation in the
deliberate politicisation and sexualisation of their worldview. Of this, far from opposing, or even
questioning, the agenda behind this power, the GTCS cheerleads us ever
forward into dystopia.
By fronting pieties for the multicultural cult and refusing to even mention the interests of Scotland’s native stock
population, whether pupil, parent or teacher, the
GTCS is a traitor to our country.
In short, in its major mission to
Scottish education it is an enemy of our profession and our children. It has no
legitimacy amongst teachers, as evidenced by the return rates for the election
of its officers.
I deeply resented the money spent on
the registration fee, and only did so by compulsion.
Now that I no longer have to, I won’t.
POSTSCRIPT: I invited the newly installed GTCS apparatchik-placeman (CEO), Dr Pauline Stephen, to comment on the points I made in my resignation. The reader is sure to know already the nature of her response.
