Comments by "David Getling" (@DavidGetling) on "Dame Esther Rantzen: To deny older people the chance of working on into later life is cruel" video.

It's often exceedingly stupid. Despite being nearly 64 I am probably one of the best STEM teachers in the country: an area where there is a desperate shortage of teachers. Yet, if I wanted to teach in a school, the scum that run most of them wouldn't have me because they would have to pay me top of the main teaching scale, and it's impossible to bully me. Luckily, I much prefer to privately tutor A-level maths, further maths, physics and chemistry, than work in most of the UK's truly awful schools. However there are probably a good number of others who would be prepared to go into schools. Just think how much such people could help kids catch up on the education that was stolen form them during this pandemic panic.
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