Do You Agree With The Teachers Striking In The Spring?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9781087/Teachers-preparing-for-fresh-strikes-in-spring-term.html

[Prudie]

I believe you're right Sher.

[cazzz1975]

To be fair I have sympathy for the teachers, my daughter is doing her GCSE's and her teachers have been put under a lot of pressure to achieve results, this is bearing in mind that some/a lot of students do not want to work, her geography teacher says he is giving up teaching because of the stress, I dont think being a teacher is a picnic at all, if it was so jammy more people would do it.

[ichkeria]

That was also my thought too sherrardk but didn't like to say so :-)

[askyourgran]

They are not and should not be viewed as unpaid child minders. they are employed (paid) to teach our children to the best of their ability. They have holidays and days off for teacher training at the cost of the childrens education. I'm not decrying the job that teachers do by any means it must be soul destroying when parents expect teachers to instil the meaning of right and wrong as well. Two members of my family are teachers, striking is not the answer to gaining a GCSE results for a class full of children most of whom are willing to learn. The backlash of this is that parents who are both working will have to take time off because of this, and it could incur loss of wages for them, or childminding for the duration of the strike.

[ichkeria]

Why do you regard time off for training as costly to the child's education?? Costly for child minding occasionally but surely beneficial in the long run.

[bednobs]

perhaps teachers are not millitant enough. If my boss suddenly expected me to start work at 7:30 am, when previously i hadn't been, all for the pleasure of no extra money like blur toffee's wife i think i would laugh in their face. How do teachers with young children manage if they have to start work at 7:30? perhaps they put them in breakfast clubs lol

[askyourgran]

I can't remember the exact story but was it a 'teacher training day' when some teachers went to a wedding recently?

[askyourgran]

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1593120_parents-find-staff-training-teachers-at-an-oldham-wedding-party

[DaisyNonna]

Never went on strike in my entire teaching career. Wanted to but decided that the children came first. Useless deciision. School closed anyway. Was of course blamed for striking.

[RATTER15]

I dont agree with anybody striking, If I employed people and they striked, I would sack the lot and stop trading if I needed to, I would not have a gun held to my head for no one!!

[youngmafbog]

Teachers can strike alll tehy like. The sort that would strike are useless anyway and we save their wages.

Those that cant teach, those that cant teach. teach PE.

[sherrardk]

^ did you send your children to school (if you have any). Amazes me when people spout the whole 'those that can do, those that can't teach' line when the majority of people quite happily send their offspring off to school without a second thought.

[Prudie]

So are all people who strike useless at their jobs or just teachers?

[askyourgran]

All the teachers I know a dedicated to their jobs and getting the best out of their pupils youngmafbog, they have to undergo lengthy training whatever subject they teach.

[DaisyNonna]

Young, why the accusations? You obviously had trouble learning spelling and punctuation.
I taught PE amongst other subjects when nobody else could do so. That makes me a 'can't'?

[EDDIE51]

A problem with teachers is that a high % of them have never done any other job. They leave school, go to Uni or teacher training collage then back to school. At my old school 2 of the teachers were old pupils of the school , they left school went to training collage and straight back to their old school as teachers. My Mum was a teacher for over 40 years and I have many relatives who are teachers so I have great respect for them but they are very naive about what it is like in an other job and have nothing to compare their job to.

[DaisyNonna]

Worked as a waitress, (silver service and wine), cloakroom attendant, accounts clerk, postal worker, cook, aide with handicapped children, worked in a small jeweller factory and au pair abroad. Yes I also taught. Ages 5 to 18. E.S.N. and handicapped children, primary and secondary, those in special units and those being home tutored (very ill, pregnant, school refusers and those who had been expelled).
Basic literacy and numeracy and other qualifications up to A level. Most subjects. Want a list?

[ichkeria]

askyourgran are you suggesting on the strength of one newspaper story that therefore all teacher training days are spent like that?? I also find it interesting on the other hand that when it comes to strike action, which WILL affect the children's education, the first thought is of child minding fees (!)

[ichkeria]

I can't understand the criticism levelled at anyone, teachers or anyone else, that they've 'never done any other job' as if somehow that means they have no experience of the 'real world' Wholly bizarre

[owdhamer]

Yes, the holiday's are shyte.