I’m so proud and happy for all the teachers and educators and staff who are on strike today across Queensland.

It’s their first strike since 2009, and it’s well and truly needed.

Teaching has become a physically and mentally impossible job in this state over the past 50 years, and they deserve everything they’re asking for! (Scroll down to see the needs they’re asking for from the Qld government.)

As a student teacher (called a preservice teacher in Queensland), I was so hopeful going into my first prac this year.

But although the students were DELIGHTFUL, and the school itself was excellent, and I was receiving positive feedback from my incredible supervising teacher, I’m starting to think I may never be a teacher in this state.