Why do people want to become teachers?

Heads of departments are on pretty good money.

main reason people become teachers because:
they are passionate about their subject
to make a different to kids lives

Heads of departments are on pretty good money.

and often, meanwhile, disrespecting their own lives- no work-life balance. Playing the, i am "a better teacher than you" game, while the headteacher appears only at break times and staff meetings! lol. The most disrespected "profession" in the UK for sure!

Which Christmas cracker did you get that one from?

Seriously though middle leadership roles include a significantly higher workload without the same proportional increase in wages.

https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/teachers-salary-and-teaching-benefits/teachers-pay-scale-salary

Looks pretty good to me.

Yes but it doesn’t take into account the hours of work they do at home at 9 o’clock at night marking books. They do a lot more than the hours of school time.

Your rather limited grasp of labour economics would lead one to conclude that you are either in a low paid job or unemployed.

Looool what are u on about?

@Dunnig Kruger...im not on about Heads. They have a different, higher title and I'm sure higher pay, than the basic classroom teacher that we all are discussing.

Someone's got to make the teenagers less annoying?

I don't know about you, but if I were to go into teaching then I would aspire to become a head of department within a few years of starting in this profession.

Because any job that I do, I do to the best of my abilities. And I have no fear of taking on responsibilities.

Thinking about all the heads of department that were at mysecondary school, I'm confident that I could do at least as well at the admin and management aspects of the job as the lot of them.

The pay that heads of departments receive would be an incentive for me. And would attract me to becoming a secondary school teacher.

It's quite simple. My answer in response to the original post and thread title is: the pay.

@Dunnig Kruger...im not on about Heads. They have a different, higher title and I'm sure higher pay, than the basic classroom teacher that we all are discussing.

Everyone knows I'm a grafter. And I'm talking about hierarchy, not economics. And it is a fact that teachers rank in DfE like sales associates in a retail company. Also, you have no idea what my education is. I had to drop out of uni because of financial reasons, but I did succeed majority of the time on my Business Management BSc course. Plus, it's the quite obvious truth. Teachers get paid less than every other rank at schools and definitely boards and the ministries, I'm highly inclined to believe. If they weren't, then I don't know why people are griping that their pay is low in the first place.

A lot of teachers fail at what they wanted to initially do, at least that was the case at my school.

What am i on about? lol! In summary: teaching in secondary schools is a crap job!

Lool! The take home pay that heads of dept get for the work that the good ones do is a laughable joke! Good luck! And Bangouta order is known for his unintelligible thinking!