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Originally Posted by Livia

And any pay increase should be results-based because although there are many brilliant teachers, there are also some really, really useless ones being protected by the union.

I also agree with this: there are some truly amazing, horrendously undervalued teachers out there who never rise beyond the rank-and-file because thwyre concentrating on teaching and not playing workplace politics. And then there are some absolutely useless, lazy teachers who were being paid far more than what they're worth in the first place as general teachers, who often rise to department heads or other supervisory roles within schools and earn good money, simply because they cackle with the right crowd at lunch time.