the advantage of today's industrial action is a few go on strike, enough for disruption to make thier point, while the majority show up for work. at mrs beorhthelm's school most the teachers were in, and a picket line disbanded shortly after 9.
i dont know why people keep wanting to drag this up - did you want no track and trace, no PPE?
No point, just sharing my opinion that teachers and kids should have been in school and not in Pizza Express on a Tuesday lunchtime in term time.
They were on strike. Most one-day picket lines disband at midday.
They should have been in school
She ended up being signed off work due to stress and anxiety/depression, on full pay for nine months as I recall, then on half pay for a few months more then she was " made an offer " of 3 months salary if she quit..... on another subject but equally pertinent to modern employment... You remember I used to talk to you of my High Street retailer, a very well known " Brand " ? One of the staff who works with me had an extremely stressful day and effectively had a breakdown and went home mid afternoon in tears. ...lots of debate and meetings between management and directors as to what to do...the staff member was told they would dock her a whole day's pay or give her a disciplinary warning....she accepted the loss of pay as she said that " I probably won't get a pay rise in the upcoming performance reviews if I have a disciplinary warning on file "....I told her that probably none of us were getting a pay award this year anyway... however.. trading a threatened disciplinary warning against an arbitrary loss of a whole day's pay seems utterly corrupt in my book. Sadly, none of us are in a Union...I have worked in a company as a Union member and have worked for another company that were decent as a non Union member..neither would have tried to do this to a staff member.. truly awful ! ...This is where we are now.
You are rejecting the longstanding distinction in economics between real and nominal values. You can easily search what's meant by it online. Here's the clearest and most succinct for you:
No they shouldn’t, they were striking. Do you not understand the concept or do you think that teachers should put up with 10 years of sub inflation pay awards and reduced funding for education?
It’s perfectly obvious to me now, that we have fundamentally different outlooks on life, which is fine. It would be boring if we all thought the same, did the same things etc.
That's not how strikes work. Of course, if you're trying to say you don't agree with the strikes that's a decent debate and one worth having. Otherwise it just seems you don't know what strikes are.
Someone I know very well.
Jnr's form tutor rang them all up once a week to check they were ok, they also rang the parents another time in the week. I know that Jnrs form tutor was doing all this whilst homeschooling her own kid. I suppose it depends what their aim is. If the head teachers know who is turning up and who isn't, they can make plans to give the children the best education possible in the circumstances. If the teachers want to cause maximum disruption and damage to the children's prospects (and presumably they do, that's the whole point) they keep mum about whether they are coming in because that way helps to increase the number of children who miss out on schooling.Respect to him for standing up for his principles.
The school wouldn’t be fully open if even one person takes strike action.
Sadly, headteachers have strong-armed a lot of teachers into going against a democratic vote for industrial action by following the DFE’s edict to find out which staff were striking in advance of the day. This is at odds with strike law and, needless to say, something this month’s education secretary Gillian Keegan was unaware of.
But there are some who still regard teachers as slaves, who should never never ever ever do anything that may progress the flowering of a young mind.From when jnr was in primary school the budgets were cut & then cut again. He's now in year 11. The school was closed today due to strike action, I agree with them & I don't know any teachers. I can only speak for jnr's school but the teachers there worked their nuts off in lockdown. Normal lesson plans went completely out of the window, don't forget the lockdown started off as 'a couple of weeks' or something like that. It spread across year groups which run from Sept to June, rather than years in the calendar sense.
When it was clear that it was going to be longer, it was set up online & I found myself having to do pe lessons in my lounge via You tube vids that their actual teachers were putting up via a protected link. The teachers at my jnrs school made sure that they still got everything they needed. Yoga is not as 'gentle' as it seems and HIT pe lessons modified to a lounge by the teachers, is the work of the devil. I did enjoy our maths, science & french 'inter home' competitions, though I wouldn't win now jnr is in yr 11 compared to year 8 when the 1st lockdown started!
Anyone with the idea that their job starts and ends at the same time the kids arrive and leave is delusional.
Damn right they need a pay rise, it needs to be funded by the government though. There is no such thing as having a 'textbook' each during a lesson anymore, kids are being asked to take pictures of the whiteboard on their phones. I don't think they mind that much, as they don't have to experience carrying around textbooks in their rucksacks.
Teachers have to pay to educate the future generations, nurses & medical professionals have to pay to qualify to be able to look after us. They need resources to be able to do their jobs properly. If you are unlucky enough to need medical treatment ask the person who is treating you if they've paid off their student loan. If you have kids, when it comes to parents evening ask their teachers if they've managed to pay off their student loan yet. The loans they have to get to teach the kids, keep us well, affect their chances of getting a mortgage. Why are the people that keep things going, being charged to keep things going & then can't get a mortgage to own their own home. Someone doing a fine arts degree is going to be paying the same amount. No offence to those doing a fine arts degree but it isn't in my top 10 of essential qualifications for essential jobs list.
Rant over, I'm going to look at football threads now!
I think you maybe over stating the damage and disruption to children's prospects for missing a couple of days of school. BBC bitesize is available if there's nothing else they can do.
You mean all this fuss about the US Civil War was because the poor slaves were living lives like we are today? I've learned something there. Instead of having a war, why didn't they just move to a different employer, or go to university and get better qualified?
Then who will teach the children? You’ve not really thought that through.
