GMBHD itv covering the Teachers Strike (7/5/16)

[arista]

One Mother was Very Angry
she can not afford to Hire someone.

If I was Up there
I would take her kids to Parliament
to be looked after by the Green MP (Lady)


Fecking Strikers


GMBHD itv
gives reports that dusty bbc breakfast
can not (due to their Left Wing assisting attitude)

[arista]

Feck Me only 20% Voted for this Strike

NO Fecxking DEMOCRACY

[Crimson Dynamo]

1 in 4 teachers voted (so essentially the militant lefty wing ones) and of that 25% - 90% voted to strike


Absolutely shocking that over 75% of the teachers do not support this backward, damaging action

[arista]

1 in 4 teachers voted (so essentially the militant lefty wing ones) and of that 25% - 90% voted to strike


Absolutely shocking that over 75% of the teachers do not support this backward, damaging action


Yes No Democracy

One Mother had her kids on the picket line with
the Left Wing teacher.


Meanwhile
on LBC radio
a Dad argued with a Teacher


That Dad said the Teachers all give Mixed Signals.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Yes No Democracy

One Mother had her kids on the picket line with
the Left Wing teacher.


Meanwhile
on LBC radio
a Dad argued with a Teacher


That Dad said the Teachers all give Mixed Signals.

Yes, Nick is not a fan of strikes although I am sure that odious creep O'Brien will be devoting his whole show to support for the militant teachers..

[Kazanne]

I hope they are going to get a fine for disrupting childrens education !!!

[Crimson Dynamo]

The irony that they are techers yet the only thing they can think of to express themselves is to flounce off in a strike

:facepalm:

oh and I have already heard this morning "the government wont listen, we want to talk but they are ignoring us"

same old tired union line I have been hearing since the 70s

[arista]

Yes, Nick is not a fan of strikes although I am sure that odious creep O'Brien will be devoting his whole show to support for the militant teachers..


Well he is the Guardian.


I want On my 1080P TV a look inside a school
and show me what the fecking problem is.


This Strike is England only

[smudgie]

Feck Me only 20% Voted for this Strike

NO Fecxking DEMOCRACY

Is that 20% of all teachers or 20% of that particular teachers union?

[arista]

Is that 20% of all teachers or 20% of that particular teachers union?


Yes as they called the strike


Good Old Ammi Teacher
is not on strike
I take my Hat off to her

[Livia]

Will the teachers be fined in the same way parents are if they take their kids out of school during term time? Or is it less disruptive if the teachers, rather than the parents, stop kids going to school?

[arista]

Will the teachers be fined in the same way parents are if they take their kids out of school during term time? Or is it less disruptive if the teachers, rather than the parents, stop kids going to school?


No

[Livia]

No

It was a rhetorical question arista.

[arista]

It was a rhetorical question arista.


I know


The irony of it all

[Cherie]

Teachers don't impose fines, it's the local councils that do that, and no one gets fined for taking a day off, if you need a day out you take a sickie in reality

[arista]

Some Parents have to Work
they can not afford to Hire Child care,

No Democracy with the NUT

[Cherie]

The funding per child has been cut, this is why they are striking so it's in parents interests as well, unless they want even bigger class sizes

[Josy]

Who cares if the teachers go on strike it's the summer holidays :hee:

[arista]

The funding per child has been cut, this is why they are striking so it's in parents interests as well, unless they want even bigger class sizes


Yes its Harder for Everyone
Even Managers

Teaching depends on Good Teachers
Changes effect everything.

Many Parents
are Very Angry at this Strike
I Respect Them

[arista]

Who cares if the teachers go on strike it's the summer holidays :hee:


Yes many are saying
its was all Political

[AnnieK]

I saw this on facebook this morning - just to put a teachers point of view across:

Parents - are you a wee bit pissed off that teachers are on strike again? And it's all about their pay?!!

I am a teacher and I will be on strike on Tuesday. I want to explain why.

1. It's not really about pay.
As a profession I think we are well paid. That is why we have good quality professionals working hard to teach children, inspire them and look after them. But this is about to change.

2. The white paper
The governments latest white paper proposes DEREGULATION of teachers pay and conditions. Currently all local authority employed teachers in England are paid according to the same contract. Like nurses and doctors, we have automatic pay progression (so the longer you serve the more you get - an incentive to stay in the profession), pay portability (if we move schools we get the same basic pay - they can't pay us less - this stops a competition between schools for teachers based on money - without it richer schools will always poach good staff from poorer schools) .

3. What is performance-related pay?
The introduction of performance related pay will mean that teachers get paid according to exam results. As a parent I would never want a teacher to look at my child and think 'is he going to wreck my data and stop my pay rise?' We are not working in sales - it is hugely problematic to pay us based on exam results.

4. Why should non-teachers care about teachers pay and conditions?
Deregulation also means that our working hours, holidays, pay, sick pay and maternity pay will be individually decided by the employer - the academy that is. An Academy in Manchester has in its contract that maternity pay will be 'subject to affordability'. Who will become a teacher if the terms and conditions are unattractive? A mum said to me yesterday 'but in my job I don't get good maternity pay - why should I care about teachers?'. My answer is this: public sector pay and conditions set the bar for private sector pay and conditions. If we get screwed you will get screwed too.

5. What's the problem with academies and free schools?
Academies and free schools are businesses. That means their primary concern is money. The government is paving the way for them to become profit-making businesses. Already many academies double up as wedding venues, conference facilities etc. No harm in generating revenue eh? Well only if it's being ploughed back into the school and The children. Let's remember schools are about children aren't they? It seems not. Many academies including Harris academies have recently got in trouble for deliberately excluding 'problem children' and paying local authority schools to take them off their hands - because they wreck the data. How can you publish your excellent GCSE results if some stubborn children just won't make progress! The answer in some academies is to get rid of them - then you don't have to report their results.
So if the money isn't spent on the kids where does it go?

Good question!
Do a Google search on haberdashers free school account fraud. He ran off with £4million! How did he manage to do that? Answer - because he was only accountable to the board of governors and the head teacher. Local authority schools are overseen by a democratically elected local council. Academies don't have to bother with that level of accountability. And the government also wants to get rid of parent governors. This would mean that academies would only be accountable to themselves. We're talking about millions of pounds of public money. Already there have been many documented cases of fraud in academies and free schools.

6. Qualified teachers V unqualified teachers
Academies and free schools don't have to employ qualified teachers. Unqualified teachers are cheaper of course. But I know which one I want teaching my children.

And all of this in the context of 8% cut in funding to schools over the next 4 years. Of course schools will be forced to cut spending on staff (while paying loads to Facilities Management companies who own the buildings).

This is all I have time to write just now.
The problem is that most teachers are so busy that they haven't taken time to communicate all this with parents. I think we need to get much better at doing that.

But just think about your children's teachers - do you trust them? If you do then please trust that they are on strike for the right reasons - for the future of our jobs and our schools - defending education from privatisation.