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Originally Posted by kazanne

I find it really annoying that teachers can strike without permission!! they penalise parents for taking kids out of school for holidays etc, but they can strike and leave the kids without education for their own benefit,selfish imo.

Good point, I can see all sides on this argument and one of my Cousins is a teacher,even she would say a strike,certainly of a days duration won't make any difference really.

Along with other professions..Teachers are seeing their pension plans hit and that's sad and also may even not be the wisest or right path to go down for the Govt,
Having said that, we all knew no real good economic news was coming for the next few years and I don't see what the professions see as the Govts alternative overall.The Govt has had to make some hard and very necessary economic decisions to protect everyone not just a few.

If the Teachers and Teaching Unions have better ideas and plans themselves then publicise them and keep doing so,the public would be far more likely to get behind them in that scenario than if they went on strike.

Strikes inconvenience everyone,especially from the teaching profession, it should be a valued profession by the Nation but it will do itself no good at all by striking and I cannot see this Govt altering course on this one either,not without a cast iron better plan that would work on the table anyway.