Teachers on Strike

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daveyjp wrote: »

I wouldn't worry about it. There is now no need to have qualified teachers teaching or running schools.

Within a few years if you can turn up 195 days a year you can be in front of 50 children in a class earning national minimum wage.

When after 13 years we have 50 more uneducated folk draining the taxpayer don't come moaning.

Teachers get paid significantly more than national minimum wage.

So are you saying that the educational policy of the government is to replace teachers with people who can just turn up for 195 days and pay these people minimum wage?

It seems ridiculous.

peachyprice

daveyjp wrote: »

I wouldn't worry about it. There is now no need to have qualified teachers teaching or running schools.

You mean just like private schools have been for years?

adandem

peachyprice wrote: »

3 days notice really is pants.

How much notice do you get that your child is ill?

Parents should also realise that the proposed changes will affect their child's education. Do you want your child to be taught by unqualified teachers?

peachyprice

adandem wrote: »

How much notice do you get that your child is ill?

Parents should also realise that the proposed changes will affect their child's education. Do you want your child to be taught by unqualified teachers?

What are you talking about? A child being ill (not that is has anything at all to do with teachers strikes) is an unforseen circumstance, these strikes were announced weeks ago. Not that it makes any difference, but seeing as you're the one who brought it up, parents are allowed by law time off work to look after sick children, not so for teachers strikes, which is why as much notice as possible is appreciated.

As for your second paragraph, !!!!!! has a head choosing to give 3 days notice that they're going to close, when other schools managed 5, 6 days, got to do with unqualified teachers?

You're picking on the wrong person if you think I don't appreciate teachers, so get off your soapbox and pick on someone who is anti-teacher strikes.

KME91

By their very nature, strikes are meant to be disruptive. Giving lots of notice would allow employers to mitigate against that disruption, thus lowering the effectiveness of the strike action. So you're never going to get much notice of a strike.

I hope the teachers are successful. God knows I wouldn't want to be a teacher these days, and I think anyone who does take on that job, with all the associated stress and hassle that seems to go with it these days, deserves a decent pay packet.

mountainofdebt

wiogs wrote: »

But would a strike during non-term time cause as much inconvenience for the employer?.

would love to know how they cause inconvenience to their employer anyway by going on strike - the only people affected are their pupils and the parents who have to find childcare or take a day off work if the child is young enough.

Of course if a parent took their child out of school during term time, I have no doubt that all hell would break loose over the child's lost education

catmiaow

goater78 wrote: »

Teachers get paid significantly more than national minimum wage.

So are you saying that the educational policy of the government is to replace teachers with people who can just turn up for 195 days and pay these people minimum wage?

It seems ridiculous.

Exactly they get more money, more holidays and more benefits then a lot of other people. They should be grateful instead of being so greedy.

Dunroamin

catmiaow wrote: »

Exactly they get more money, more holidays and more benefits then a lot of other people. They should be grateful instead of being so greedy.

And just what would those benefits be, exactly - being abused and threatened on a regular basis?

catmiaow

Dunroamin wrote: »

And just what would those benefits be, exactly - being abused and threatened on a regular basis?

Let's see pensions for one. I've had jobs where I've been threatened, but I got minimum wage for that privilege. Teachers are certainly not hard done by, they are very lucky. Not many can say they get the money and holiday that teachers get and I don't know many people who even get a pension.

Dunroamin

catmiaow wrote: »

Let's see pensions for one. I've had jobs where I've been threatened, but I got minimum wage for that privilege. Teachers are certainly not hard done by, they are very lucky. Not many can say they get the money and holiday that teachers get and I don't know many people who even get a pension.

Perhaps you're not well qualified with plenty of experience - I always find that makes people "luckier".;)