Did you agree with the Strike today?

My wife will be on strike because changing work conditions means she is teaching 7 year old children to pass tests and little else. She is happy with her salary pension and amount of leave tbh.
 
Uhtred said:
The government really doesn't care.

From what I've seen teachers do have to work hard but but it's not bad pay, they have good job security, great holiday and there are far more professions that get it worse than they do.
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You're right. I don't feel badly done to, and I don't believe that Michael Gove and his cronies give a ****. He has shown sheer bloody-mindedness from the moment he became Education Secretary, he will press ahead regardless with his ideas to improve education (read: take education back to the Golden Age :rolleyes: of the 1950s when he was at school) and I don't believe that even if teachers walked out for a whole half term that he would bend an inch...
 
As far as I am concerned teachers know what they are getting into so they should either not become a teacher or get on with it. A couple of family friends are teachers and they are always moaning about working hours, not being appreciated etc. I tell them to move jobs, then they realise the phrase "those who can't do, teach" is true.
 
haz_pro said:
As far as I am concerned teachers know what they are getting into so they should either not become a teacher or get on with it. A couple of family friends are teachers and they are always moaning about working hours, not being appreciated etc. I tell them to move jobs, then they realise the phrase "those who can't do, teach" is true.
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What about the person who has been in the Job for over 30 years about to retire at 55 now being told they have to work until they are 65?
 
Fuggan said:
Unfair on working parents who are force to shell out for additional childcare costs IMO.
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Those parents were given many moons notice, they could have booked a day off and spent it with the kids. Oh wait most parents HATE spending time with the kids and would rather they go away
 
Diagro said:
Those parents were given many moons notice, they could have booked a day off and spent it with the kids. Oh wait most parents HATE spending time with the kids and would rather they go away
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Indeed

The teachers get slashed by the parents...

Oh wait but they love them going to school.So they can watch Jeremy Kyle in peace.
 
I can feel a PhD in "being wrong and trying to discuss subjects you don't understand" is going to be awarded to Diagro in the near future.
 
Diagro said:
Those parents were given many moons notice, they could have booked a day off and spent it with the kids. Oh wait most parents HATE spending time with the kids and would rather they go away
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Not everybody has the luxury of being able to take days off whether they're in advance or not. Especially when you consider small, local business who perhaps hire parents of children who attend the same schools, potentially resulting in large parts of their workforces being absent.
 
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