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Teachers' strike this week
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mr cgull
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I am a teacher who has chosen to strike on Thursday. While I believe the wage that I am paid is ok, the issue that the NUT have is the pay rise for the next 3 years being well below inflation, hence the value of being a teacher is decreasing.
Added to that the work load (sorry to sound repetitive) which is massive and the fact that I am unable to have any chance of getting on the property ladder, I decided to go on strike.
I love the job and would never want to do anything else and do feel guilty about the choice of myself and the minority of others in my school leading to closure. However I do think that sometimes difficult decisions have to be made and this in my view is an example.
Just to clarify an earlier point about non-strikers being expected to turn up to school when the school is closed - yes this is true that they will not get paid if they don't. Those on strike will not be paid for the day.
Another argument of the NUT is that with the importance of the profession, the right wages are needed to attract the best quality graduates - at present I think I'm right in saying that teaching is a below average wage for graduates.
Added to that the work load (sorry to sound repetitive) which is massive and the fact that I am unable to have any chance of getting on the property ladder, I decided to go on strike.
I love the job and would never want to do anything else and do feel guilty about the choice of myself and the minority of others in my school leading to closure. However I do think that sometimes difficult decisions have to be made and this in my view is an example.
Just to clarify an earlier point about non-strikers being expected to turn up to school when the school is closed - yes this is true that they will not get paid if they don't. Those on strike will not be paid for the day.
Another argument of the NUT is that with the importance of the profession, the right wages are needed to attract the best quality graduates - at present I think I'm right in saying that teaching is a below average wage for graduates.
Is that you in your avatar?
Publius Ovidius
Well-known member
did you support the Teachers Assistants strike, or are you one of those who told them that they couldn't support them as it "affected the kids" ......seems like double standards as you expect them to support you lot
I teach too, although slightly older people, and it's the greatest job on the planet.
Exams for my subject are this Friday, and the students contact me via Facebook, mobile phone, email and any other method they can think of. If anyone thinks I am going to shit on them the day before the exams they can f*** right off (I know my union are not involved in this one, but if they were, that would be my answer)
Have they always been called 'inset days'? Never heard that term before today, and now I've heard it twice, once at work and once on here. Whatever happened to tried and trusted STAFF TRAINING days?
In Dewsbury they are called incest days
What if they are very fit and asked nicely?
British Bulldog
The great escape
- Feb 6, 2006
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Be f***ed if I would.
Out of curiousity, is a hot lunch a vegetarian meal?
No. I`m one of those people who can`t understand why a teacher turns a blind eye to 13 year olds smoking on school grounds or wanders around when on lunch duty totally oblivious to the mess they are making.
Depends I spose. Should come with a nut allergy warning though.
mr cgull
Member
Publius Ovidius
Well-known member
No, I was just interested as the support from the teachers was pathetic in the extreme!
Too true. Though it seems to be the former is often lacking moreso these days, with teachers having to pick up the pieces
Djmiles
Barndoor Holroyd
Just send them in on Saturday to make up for it. Damn kids.
Theatre of Trees
Well-known member
I'm a bit ambivilant, didn't vote in the ballot but was going to lose this day anyway to a non-timetabled creative curriculum day so instead of helping my year 11s to complete their coursework by Friday I was near enough ordered to accompany the year 8s on a trip to Herstmonceux.
Still think the NUT should have waited until after the exams, weather would be better for a day off too!
The Clown of Pevensey Bay
Well-known member
Have they always been called 'inset days'? Never heard that term before today, and now I've heard it twice, once at work and once on here. Whatever happened to tried and trusted STAFF TRAINING days?
INSET stands for IN SErvice Training. They were introduced by Kenneth Baker when he was education secretary, and are also known as Baker Days. Presumably any pay rise offered by the current education secretary woud be a Balls Up.
Anyway -- the current Mrs Of Pevensey Bay is a teacher in a state primary school in west London. She qualified pretty late -- she was 26 and had had a couple of other jobs in fancy libraries and in the media.
It absolutely knackers her. She starts at 7.30am, gets home at 6pm, then does two or three hours of work most nights, and on Sundays. She has reports, and frameworks, and targets coming out of her ears. Because she works in an inner London borough, she gets a bit extra -- I think her salary is around the £24k mark. I'm dead proud of her. But I wouldn't do it for double that salary. With the increasing cost of EVERYTHING, I think teachers are RIGHT to go on strike for more pay right now.
I like what you've done there...
I believe they were introduced alongside the NC in 1988, and stayed around ever since. They were a staple of my school life and always an added bonus because they would be in the middle of a term, therefore a nice diversion.
But from what I've heard, teachers hate them and would much rather be teaching than to have some bizarre/dull course on something or even worse, an expensive consultant telling them how to do their jobs better when they know that themselves..