We don’t believe that [today’s strike] will be damaging for children.
“The NUT believes that the continual decline in teachers’ pay, which is then always followed by teacher shortages, is actually far more damaging than anything we are doing today.
“Good education depends on well-motivated teachers, teachers who are paid enough to live in the communities that they work and that is often not the case in London.
Tim Harris of the NUT speaking on the daily politics ( via Politics Home)
It may have escaped your notice but there is a teachers strike today.BBC news reports that
About a third of schools in England and Wales have been disrupted by the first national teachers' strike in 21 years.
The walkout by thousands of teachers has closed or partially closed up to 8,000 schools, and forced working parents to stay home or find childcare
How has it happened that a profession that was so in favour of Labour in 1997,60% of teachers voted for Tony Blair to have fallen so out of favour 10 years later?
The dispute is over pay and the teachers have got a better deal than the police or the nurses,the former banned from taking strike action.
Schools minister Jim Knight earlier today refused to back down arguing that teachers had seen increases of 195 in real terms since 1997 and wandering ,why unlike their other colleagues the NUT would not accept independent arbitration.
Kelvin MacKenzie writing in the Sun is rather angry
The selfish and disgraceful teachers were only thinking about one thing — themselves.
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