Teaching is not for wimps

HOW rude to call the young man who has dropped out of teaching a snowflake (Mail).

People who have never done this arduous job have no idea how difficult it is. I have been teaching for 25 years and have watched the decline of my profession. Too much paperwork detracts from the real purpose of delivering interesting lessons to the children.

It is a job that never ends. We work from early morning through lunch and then until late at night marking homework and preparing lessons, but it is never enough.

The young man who has left teaching has saved himself a lot of unnecessary stress. I hope he moves on to better things.

SHELAGH SPENCE, Birmingham. CLAIMING that ‘our parents, grandparents and teachers are responsible for mollycoddling us’ (Letters) is yet another example of a young person refusing to accept responsibility for their own actions.

Someone else is always to blame, even if it’s their nearest and dearest who have loved and nurtured them all their lives. It’s time to grow up.

S. HOOD, Cambridge.