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Teaching is the very best job in the world. I love teaching overseas. However Teaching in the UK is the worst job in the world.

The people who go into training teachers are a mixed bunch. The one I knew at Bangor, was a former primary school teacher, trying to teach people to be Secondary English Teachers. She was full of hatred against the English and bullied various English students in the class. I think she thought this immature conduct was proof of her Welsh Nationalist credentials. Her silly teenage-style tantrums, did prepare us to deal with the children in the classroom, who behaved badly, so I guess she did some actual teacher training, without meaning to.

A very informative video. One other reason for the Lithuanians no being visible any more is that many were duped into thinking they would be going to the USA for a better life. Arriving in Grimsby is not everyone’s idea of the promised land and Scotland was not always a first choice but once there they got on with it. Once settled and having the means many would have taken every opportunity to get to America.

Thank you. After 2 months of my PGCE, with lots of positive feedback, lovely letters from students, lots of assurances of a rosy future, I am about to tell Uni I am leaving. I have agonised over it, but I am a square peg in a round hole. I don’t fit into the teaching environment; the politics, the undermining, the disillusionment in schools. The very occasional rewards did not outweigh the benefits for me. I love my subject and am passionate about it. Absolutely concur about the saving private ryan analogy. I have never, in all my life, been treated with such disrespect from teenagers. I have successfully brought up two grown children respectfully, had a £70K a year career. I did not accept being so disrespected by teens, and my behavioural management was commended. But here’s the thing….it’s exhausting keeping up the standard. It’s not for me. I love my subject, but it’s better taken elsewhere. The sense of relief I feel having made the decision to leave the PGCE tells me everything.

I do not think I could be a teacher, as my #1 rule would be to eject any disruptive student from any class. I am also terrible with name-face relation plus i am an introvert, so I totally understand the issue of energy. I have respect for you for even attempting it. For me an orderly class is essential - I suffered when that was not the case when I was a kid - 45 years ago! And that was at a school and a time when this was far less tolerated. Today?

Finished 1 semester of pgde. I utterly loathe this 1 year programme so much and I've just come from my master's degree chemistry. The workload is stupidly overwhelming: assignments, assignments and even assignments during the week when we should have been studying for our exams. And already I have problems sleeping at night because of the dread of next semester, racing through my mind. It's actually putting me off becoming a chemistry teacher as a career path. When I am done with this tedious and frustrating programme, I'm off to do my phd in chemistry. Even my Scottish dad, currently in Kuwait says he's fed up with teaching as well.

I applaud these teachers speaking out on a public platform. I was lucky enough to get old and retire in 2011. Things were rough and had been rough for some time, and it sounds like they're only getting worse. We complained like crazy to everyone who would listen, which was almost no one. Everything this guy talks about is absolutely TRUE. I've decided the only way to get any real change is for the system to totally implode and reinvent everything from scratch. The implosion part will probably happen during the lunatic trump administration, part 2. The reinventing part will take decades. We will lose a generation or two who will learn almost nothing, but it appears that's already happening. We are truly in a Dark Age. Younger teachers who are leaving, and publicly and honestly explaining their reasons, are performing a service. Good luck to you in a more fulfilling life than you would ever have as a teacher.

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So what next?

Many Lithuanians were called "Poles" back then. Not only called by the others, but sometimes presenting themselves like "Poles" too or writing their names in Polish. It's like some Scots would present themselves "English people", based solely on a fact they speak English or live in the UK. Lithuanians and Poles share the same religion - Catholicism and lived within one Commonwealth, where the majority of Lithuanians learned Polish. What is more, sometimes their surnames were translated to Polish and written down in Polonized forms as most of the priests were coming to Lithuania from Poland and were Poles. Sometimes these priests were telling the illiterate peasants in Lithuanian villages, that "God do not understand Lithuanian", "Good Catholic must be Pole", "Those speaking dirty pagan Lithuanian speech go straight to hell", "Catholic, who speaks Polish, will go to heaven, but those hissing in pagan Lithuanian surely going to hell" (all the many of these examples are in the books and well known for historians and ethnographers). During the uprising against Russia, the proclamation to Lithuanians in Lithuania was telling: "We, Lithuanians, being good Poles, must fight Russia well". In the west Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was seen as simply "Poland". This ignorance was leading to the fact, that they were called simple "Poles" or "Russians" after emigrating to the UK or to the USA. There is an example when Lithuanian, a native of Vilnius - Felix Yaniewicz went to Edinbourg and was a well known musician there in the 19th c. A plaque to Felix Janiewicz is unveiled on 84 Great King Street, Edinburgh. He is simply known as a Pole in Scotland and the UK. Poles present him as a Pole in the UK, in various articles too. So what happened to all the Lithuanians? 🙂

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Great explanation❤

What happened at Gallipoli? A young colonel named Mustafa Kemal happened! British couldn’t defeat him. Just as Brit supported Greek forces could not defeat him in Turkey’s liberation war a few years later. Gallipoli did not give you what you wanted but it gave us our hero, the saviour and revolutionist of modern Turkey. It gave us “the Father of the Turks”!

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There was nothing to be proud about concerning this conflict. Churchill was clueless as to how organised the Turks could be, and obviously all the troop ships could be seen approaching for miles across the med. So two key aspects for a successful attack were lost. I'm no historian, but I seem to remember that the Turks even put a floating barrage across the Dardanelles to block our ships, then shot them up. It was a complete mess. And to land troops under cliffs is suicide. Even if there wasn't any Turks up there, it would have been torture climbing up. Then there was the weather - roasting when they arrived, then rain and freezing in later months when they were dug in trying to survive. Then re-enforcement's arrived. The guys under fire on the hills could see the troops arrive on the coast in the distance - but they didn't come to relieve them. They were seen making camp on the beach and swimming in the sea. And to add immense insult to injury, when the survivors were evacuated in December 1915 and thought they were sailing home - the lads were told they were actually being dropped off at France - to fight in the mud. Disgraceful abuse of volunteer soldiers.

I'm in my 7th year of teaching middle school science. I'm an introvert and a profectionist. What makes me want to quit are the increasing demands, disrespectful students, long hours, constant exhaustion, and several other factors to list. It's not worth it. Education is not what it once was. It's not what it was seven years ago. I'm looking at going back to school to retool and learn new skills. What's scary is that I'm 47. I already feel like I'm facing agism.

4:45 Let me get this right... You teach history in a RANDOM chronological order?! This is so strange! How do you explain logical processes, how do you explain context that way??? How do you jump from the Great Plague to WW I?? History can only be taught in a chronological order, starting from the first humans and ending with present times. No wonder the kids don't like it. There's no opportunity to understand the essence of history - which is CONTEXT that way. When did this silly practice start in the UK? I'm sure it wasn't the case a few decades ago.

I’m deffo an introvert. Your definition of too many people = socially draining happens to me. Even when teachers speak in the staff room I lose energy. I need to unplug once in a while. I’m also a perfectionist and I’m my worst critic. But after many years of teaching I have become more aware that you gonna have good days and your gonna have mediocre days and that’s how it is

I couldn’t get into a PGCE in the UK so I went into teaching ESL and fell in love with teaching abroad. Going to the UK to teach in a primary or secondary schools would kill me. I still want to get the QTS on a AO route but would still prefer to teach in China. (The workload is huge) but at least the rent is low and you can save 75-80% of your salary. In the UK you’d be whacked out of your savings. No way to live

You could always sub! :) Although you do have to be flexible, you also can choose what job you pick up & what days you'd want to work. That could help you feel less drained, but also allow you to still help out at schools/ in the classrooms!

I am no longer enjoying teaching, but I’m 8 years from retirement. I have gotten my salary to an impressive place, and if I switch careers, I would most likely take a HUGE pay cut that I can’t afford. I really can’t leave at this point.

A major workload issue is the accountability regime imposed after1988.

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This video helped me with my class presentation so thanks

This is an excellent, really clear explanation of militarism. Thanks for taking the time to do this. :)

yes if truth be known then i would say this is a balanced analysis. Thing is what was left out was the need for capitaliism's growing markets by all countries. look at it from an economic point of view too. That curse is still with us, Putin invasion in Russia and a need for expansion.

Imagine requiring a drill sergeant. And even then...not being allowed to enforce any rules.no consequences, no standards,no support.The inmates are indeed in charge of the asylum!!!

The irony of the Scots having a problem with poor working people from Ireland coming their country to live in squalor when the Scots just two centuries earlier moved en masse ("planted") to Ireland and basically threw the Irish off their own land and enslaved them in all but name with the permission of the Crown.

I've been teaching for 6 years now and I am an introvert, a perfectionist and get really anxious with public speaking 😂 It's the worst for me after a break and the only way I get through the first couple of weeks back is by pretending I'm not me, fake it until you make it ahahaha This video has made me understand why I think of quitting so often! I empathise with everything you said and the training for me was the WORST. It's such a rewarding job, but for me it is at the expense of any social life which I don't think friends and family quite understand. It's definitely a struggle!! 😂

There are a lot of people in Glasgow with the surname Bendoris, which is an Anglicization of the Lithuanian surname Bendorious.

The choice for my Great Grandfather in Glasgow was a small wage in the dangerous (life-threatening) new industries. Living in derelict, unsanitary conditions....(Creating a collective tenement living which had its own social rules for helping the communities). OR joining the British territorial armies for a higher wage in the South African wars. He chose the latter... fortunately returning unscathed and helped John McLean in his work to help others when there was no dole, by forming the Palacerigg Peat Bogs...... Untaught about in history. My impression as an amateur history fan is that the history of GB is avoidant.

John McLean the revolutionary socialist in Glasgow was from parents who had to leave the Highlands after the 'Clearances'

Loving your videos by the way. Thank you

check out the TRANENT MASSACRE 1797... 90 years AFTER union. Check out also the Mutiny and betrayal of the Black Watch 1743. By the time of mass removal of our people leaving in the rural highlands, in1850 there would still be living memory of much of this brutality. Please dont avoid the truth of the English empire stretching beyond its border.

You didnt mention the burning of Scottish Highland homes to replace the farming community with sheep...Many burnings with elderly and infirm asleep within. Also the union was incredibly resisted ... (disruption by industry was nothing in comparison to the brutality against the Scottish from 1707 all the way through to 1900's

Utter bullshit!

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Good video. Nobody humiliated Germany. They humiliated themselves

Fair play. I admire your honesty. I struggled with some of early teaching practices. I had to adjust my teacher persona to actually succeed.

If the allies needed a ‘cunning plan’, maybe they should have asked Baldrick. It couldn’t have been any worse.

Where on earth do you get your death list from? 200,000 dead Allied soldiers? Add at least 3 wounded to one death that gives a total casualty number of 800,000 then add the thousands of troops that survived and that number goes to a million troops. Your figures are absolute nonsense. Approximately 21, 000 Brits died and 9,000 ANZACs died with several thousand French etc.

can you elaborate on what you had to deal with from kids and parents?

Very enjoyable overview of the story of Lithuanians in Scotland. I've been trying to learn about the itinerary of a branch of my family that I know from a family document passed through Lanarkshire before arriving in the US. It's funny, but I've always felt a connection to Scotland in my scholarship and research...even before I knew this family story. It's been good to learn the larger context of their migration from material like yours.

Thank you for sharing your educational journey and how you realized that teaching in front of large groups of people wasn't right for you. I am also an introvert and I can relate about the feeling of exhaustion at the end of each day, only to get up and do it again the next day. As a single parent of two children, I felt that my career options were limited. I continued to teach for several years. After my children were grown and on their own, I made the decision to resign. I became my mother's full-time caregiver for 2+ years until she passed away. I have no regrets about ending my teaching career, except that I wish I had done it sooner. I now work at home selling jewelry online which is quite satisfying. As a perfectionistic person, I am able to display and describe my items with creativity and precision. Thanks again for sharing your journey and I wish you much success!

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Two of my master grandparents were born in Scotland. I just managed to find were one was born, as only document we have, is his birth certificate. Very poorly translated by russians. My master grandfather came back to Lithuania with his family in around 1920, at the time he was 6 years old. Until his death he fluently spoke English. He even though me basics of English, when I was like 4 year old. Despite his father was working in a coal mine, he said their life was way better then back in Lithuania.

An excellent video indeed. Everything was thoroughly explained . Thank u so much

If you are well read about the Irish famine you will know this chap is lying. The U.K. public sector spent £19m in famine relief. An unheard of amount in those days. The British people gave a further £525k in charitable donations to relieve the famine. Grain exports from Ireland during the famine decreased. “Hundreds died on their way back” he’s talking about the Doolough Tragedy in which about 17 people died or went missing. Coffin ships are a later nationalist invention. It’s true that 10% of travellers to Quebec died in 1847 due to outbreaks of disease, this was a scandal at the time. But 95% of people travelled after 1847 and their chance of death (about 2%) was normal for long sea voyages at that time.

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Seems like same problems all over the world. Do you think it would be any better with older students, like 13+