Teachers' Strike!

[Bruce Wayne]

This is the best lesson to give to kids. Don't get what you want, throw a strop.

 

[Elong]

This is the best lesson to give to kids. Don't get what you want, throw a strop.

I've been waiting an hour for you to type something like that, you're late!

 

[WA Toffee]

Thursday is better, mate: Strike on Thu; "Touch of Flu" on Fri; Weekend off. Job sorted - Barcelona, here I come.

Call yerself an Evertonian?

That's the attitude, I can see your demands for a pay rise are well justified

 

[Kurt.]

*something about 6 weeks paid holiday in the summer, 2 weeks at Xmas, 1 week at Easter.....or something *

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I've been waiting an hour for you to type something like that, you're late!

Sorry, like to work first thing so was a bit behind

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

We so rarely have strikes these days

Fact we've got one here is enough to tell me that the teachers must be properly steamed

 

[Coach]

[h=1]Teachers' strike: why I will be striking[/h]From ill-considered changes to GCSEs to a rise in pension contributions, English teacher Laura Rowlands gives her reasons for striking


http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-...hers-strike-why-i-will-be-striking?CMP=twt_gu

 

[Del]

[h=1]Teachers' strike: why I will be striking[/h]From ill-considered changes to GCSEs to a rise in pension contributions, English teacher Laura Rowlands gives her reasons for striking


http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-...hers-strike-why-i-will-be-striking?CMP=twt_gu

I stand up all day. Most days, I get to work at around about 7.15am. I often leave at around 5 or 6pm. There is rarely a weekday evening in which I don't have something to catch up on. Be it marking, planning or correspondence. I am tired.

Granted, I get great holidays – although I run holiday schools, revision sessions and plan schemes of work during this time. But we're now being told we must work until we're 68. Do you want a 68 year old teaching your kids PE? Is this what's best for children?

 

[orchard]

I'm sure there are a lot of issues involved, but imo, I don't think their comparative remuneration should exceed any from the countries that feature above them in the OECD Survey of Adult Skills 2013 . Come back when they do.

 

[Tubey]

It's pointless for teachers to even try to reason with the stupid public on this one I'm afraid - John Smith down the road will simply be annoyed that he has to find childcare for his kids, and that's the end of the matter as far as he's concerned.

That said, obviously the teachers have a valid reason to strike here. Gove has been a Grade-A tosser for a long, long time with the profession. But what do you expect when one of his main advisers says that teaching doesn't matter, genetics counts for intelligence anyway.

 

[Del]

It's pointless for teachers to even try to reason with the stupid public on this one I'm afraid - John Smith down the road will simply be annoyed that he has to find childcare for his kids, and that's the end of the matter as far as he's concerned.

That said, obviously the teachers have a valid reason to strike here. Gove has been a Grade-A tosser for a long, long time with the profession. But what do you expect when one of his main advisers says that teaching doesn't matter, genetics counts for intelligence anyway.

Are teachers not members of the public mate?

 

[Tubey]

Are teachers not members of the public mate?

Of course, but they're not addressing themselves are they, so they're excluded from the term "public" in this discussion.

Similarly, if a shopkeeper was talking about the public, he himself wouldn't be classed as part of the public during that discussion.

 

[Moomin]

Good luck and i support your cause.

 

[orchard]

Hahaha, calling the Nation's public stupid's hardly helping the teacher's cause.
rolf Harris

 

[evilwebby]

If the Tories want top class teachers, pay a decent wage and treat them well. It's that simple. Don't erode pay and conditions so much that barely anyone with any talent will bother applying - isn't that the free market economics you so earnestly believe in, Mr Gove? Surely, to allow that is to sell the children of the UK short.

I guess you're not an economics teacher,then.