Monday 23 March 2015

Working 9 to 5


Starting as soon as you wake with lessons in your head

Automatic driving wishing you were at home in bed

School gates closed waiting for the madness to begin

Preparing your face for the lasting teacher’s grin

 

Not just a teacher but a parent, carer, doctor or nurse

Trying to achieve while the government tightens its purse

After school club takes the pressure away for a while

But then back at the desk with work that stretches a mile

 

If you have a family then they take second best

Your partner and your children beg you to rest

The unseen hours that tick away at your life

Governments stabbing you with the education knife

 

If we only worked 9 to 5 the job wouldn’t get done

We put in the hours so your children can have fun

Children learning to be the best that they can be

Everyone of them developing is all we want to see

 

League tables and lists have spoilt the profession

Targets and levels have become an obsession

We all fight to keep the enthusiasm alive

That’s why we never will work 9 to 5!

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