Delegates at the annual conference of the NASUWT, which took place in Birmingham over the Easter break, heard how school leaders were accusing older staff members of having outdated teaching methods and a lack of classroom management skills in a bid to try to force them out of the profession.
The conference discussed how teachers aged over 50 were increasingly seen as too expensive, refusing to conform and lacking in enthusiasm.
In one school, it was claimed, all five members of staff who were aged 50 or over were put on capability procedures when an academy chain took over the school.
Wendy Exton, a member of the union’s national executive, described the “endemic discrimination” taking place in some schools, with “employers showing no shame in what has become the norm”.
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