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Teachers union could see the biggest strikes in a decade.
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By *hagTonight OP Man
over a year ago
From the land of haribos. |
I read an article and apparently teachers in england could bring the largest strike that we have ever seen in septmeber.
The early warning of it comes after the education unions will come together in a united front, they werent happy with the pay and want a 6.5% increase for the teachers.
Kedebe added that the concerns stating that we now have a prime minister advising that he is going to amend the pay review.
What do you think of this pay review, would it be less or more, also what would the pupils do during this time, would it be home education?  |
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This goverment have taken the piss out of the public sector for years, they ignore the pay review body which they shouldnt.
The only time they agreed to the pay review recomendations when they said MPs wages shoud go up 11% a few years ago while everone elses pay was frozen.
Watch ot for all the anti teacher stories coming out on the BBC to try and undermine them and there rights. |
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10% of teachers left the profession last year as did 8% of heads. How can schools go on? There will soon be no teachers left. I am a trained teacher and no way would I go back. So many schools are just utterly toxic workplaces. |
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By *hagTonight OP Man
over a year ago
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"My daughter and her partner are both teachers. The pay rise they were offered was not with new money. It was to be taken out of the school budget. So ultimately a cut in school funding."
I see and yes, that is not good how they took it out of the school budget, so yes, the school would have less money because of that.
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"10% of teachers left the profession last year as did 8% of heads. How can schools go on? There will soon be no teachers left. I am a trained teacher and no way would I go back. So many schools are just utterly toxic workplaces."
Recruitment of Science teachers, I can confirm, is almost fucking impossible. Biology used to be relatively okay but even Bio is now a dearth of applicants. Chemistry is almost none, and Physics applicants can demand to be paid whatever they like, because there's so few of them. We can't afford to pay that, though! Apparently. |
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A general strike is needed to show this pack of hyenas it is not possible to live on wages that have stagnated for years while property prices have run rampant forcing people into rent poverty.
Energy costs, rising food prices are off the charts and still they sit on their arses while nurses are going to food banks they are such cunts. |
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I don't get how we constantly hear people saying in the media that we are the 8th richest country in the world.
2 trillion pounds of debt, depleted education, health services, crumbling roads yet we are rich apparently.
10 million immigrants in 15 years yet no increase in any investment in the above, no new reservoirs yet lack of water is global warming but not the extra 15% of people using water?
Teachers, please leave the service but stop striking. These poor kids missed education during covid & now endless strikes. |
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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago
Liverpool |
Teachers! Go find new jobs, do what's best for you. Never mind striking, go on permanent strike - quit.
Then enjoy all the whining and moaning from those that don't support you and what you do and put up with when they don't have their free child care, they don't have somebody else to blame for their lack of parenting skills.
They think their kids are missing out on education now? Wait til they have to deal with it when teachers do walk away from it all.
Some people (not all) maybe shocked to know that some teachers actually have more fucks to give about your children than "you" do. (again not all people and not all teachers) |
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"Teachers! Go find new jobs, do what's best for you. Never mind striking, go on permanent strike - quit.
Then enjoy all the whining and moaning from those that don't support you and what you do and put up with when they don't have their free child care, they don't have somebody else to blame for their lack of parenting skills.
They think their kids are missing out on education now? Wait til they have to deal with it when teachers do walk away from it all.
Some people (not all) maybe shocked to know that some teachers actually have more fucks to give about your children than "you" do. (again not all people and not all teachers) "
I am sure most teachers care about the kids but like when the fireservice "strike to save us" in the past I'd rather they don't strike & save us.
This generation of teens have had their education damaged by Covid & now by teachers.
You have plenty to say but feel this damage is acceptable wgmhich it's not.
Walk away, others will do it or the government will then throw money at it. Don't drip drip drip the damage to this generation. Go or stay but nothing in between. |
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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago
Liverpool |
"I am a teacher and I loved what I did as a job. Unfortunately and very sadly education is now a business. Bums on seats and a toxic culture.
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And for most you are unappreciated when doing your job, and an inconvenience when you are not. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"10% of teachers left the profession last year as did 8% of heads. How can schools go on? There will soon be no teachers left. I am a trained teacher and no way would I go back. So many schools are just utterly toxic workplaces.
Recruitment of Science teachers, I can confirm, is almost fucking impossible. Biology used to be relatively okay but even Bio is now a dearth of applicants. Chemistry is almost none, and Physics applicants can demand to be paid whatever they like, because there's so few of them. We can't afford to pay that, though! Apparently. "
funnily enough my eldest trained to be a science teacher chemistry and biology did 5 yrs at uni guess what he's a scientist at a pharmaceutical company after what he was told so glad he never started he's on double wages and only works 3 4 days a week. |
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"Where does all the money go?
What happens with the surplus?"
What surplus?! Costs increase year on year, but funding decreases in real terms. Any salary increases have to be found from existing budgets, no new money for this. Costs for heating, electricity, food and other essentials have increased vastly but again, no funding. Schools can't get small business support or any of the support that might be offered to any general business, they just have to suck up and pay more, do more, with less. The Maths doesn't work. |
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By *oggoneMan
over a year ago
Derry |
"Pay them more.
Support them properly.
It's a shambles and why I didn't go into the industry. Plenty of us dodged it.
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Everyone criticises the tories over the NHS but their opposition to a fair education system doesn't get as much attention.
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Good to see positive comments as it's one of the most difficult jobs to do these days. What they have to put up with, the problems the kids have, the behaviour and lack of support from parents, the endless changes to curriculum, paperwork and standards. They work so much more than anyone knows and I know lots of them. So good to see the support and not the usual clever comments from some about long holidays etc. or
bad experience with teachers in the past etc. It happens as it happens in every job when you get people not right for the job. The vast majority of teachers care as someone else said above in some cases more than the parents themselves and do their very best in very difficult circumstances and should be paid accordingly and have the right conditions to work in. I couldn't do their job, could you?.  |
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By *hagTonight OP Man
over a year ago
From the land of haribos. |
"It's a last resort and after a government that's starved them for years, whilst influence has been much higher than the offering, so is another pay cut. Good luck to them!"
That is right as it is the last resort, 12 years of the torys. I also wish them good luck  |
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