Just woken up to find....

[ilovegrannys]

Teachers on strike!!! This really grips me, it was same as the postmen & firemen when they striked!! MORE MONEY...The Girls & Boys in Afgan & Iraq need more money...get back to work!!!!! Winds me up!!!

 

TELL YOU WHAT, THE ARMED FORCES WILL GO ON STRIKE - YEAH!!

[Rick]

if anything i think this country needs more strikes...

 

GB is shit on everyday and the whole world knows it.

 

good luck to the teachers cause i wouldnt want a class of 40 little shits that your not allowed to discipline when they kick off

[Vista]

good luck to the teachers cause i wouldnt want a class of 40 little shits that your not allowed to discipline when they kick off

 

Agree with that. I come from a family that have been teachers for three generations. When I was young I saw little of my Dad outside school holidays as his work load was huge. Also the job has very much turned for the worse in the last 10 years. So much so that all of them involved in the profession retired early through ill health, mostly brought on by the stress of trying to teach increasingly unruly, ill mannered and frequently aggressive children and believe it or not their parents too!! As of course little angels Johnny and Billy can do no wrong in the parents eyes

[FredTransit]

Yup, whatever they get is not enough, much the same as any important job like nurses and firemen. I say get rid of a few politicians and give what we are not spending on them to the teachers, nurses ect....

[young un]

They can strike as often as they like for me - but then it does mean i dont have to do any work

[petrolhead]

I'm a teacher but I didn't go on strike because I can't afford it

[Trevmk3]

I'm a teacher but I didn't go on strike because I can't afford it

 

if you dont mind me asking (and dont feel you have to say if you dont want to) how much is the average teacher on per year?

[ilovegrannys]

I dont care how much they earn, they chose to do the job as much as i chose to when i joine the RN. Get a grip!! It really has gripped me for some reason, especially when OUR boys are risking life & limb and these well educated persons are dripping over a pay rise. People forget about the Boys & Girls who are out supporting UK beliefs. Is not in the news so it dont matter - it does!!!

[ilovegrannys]

Sorry i have replied late to my original post but guess what I HAVE BEEN AT WORK ALL DAY!!!!

[D4N]

What are they wanting 10% of there wages??

[over_head_cam]

I feel sorry for the people who have had to take an unscheduled day off work. I would imagine there will be many who will not have been paid for this.

Luckily my eldest was at home today revising so my wife could go to work (ironically school related)

[mk1super]

We pay all these tax's and yet we have underfunded armed forces who lets face it are the only thing between us and them, give the lads there kit and better wages, and pay the teachers and emergancy services a more suitable wage, let them in suites who dont get there hands dirty take a pay drop, runing the uk into the deck useless fookers this countrys a dogs fookin dinner

 

 

Oh and bring back tax exemption for any vehicle over 20yrs old except Vauxhalls

[Nettles]

HI Mrs Nettles here,

 

I am a teacher, but I did not strike today. I did not go into teaching for the money as I see it as a vocation. Yes the work load is phenonmenal and the children we have to deal with can be very challenging (and their parents), however, I am ok with my wage and we are not the only profession affected by a pay rise below that of inflation.

There are over 200,000 members in the NUT, but surprisingly only 60,000 actually took part in the vote to strike. That's less than a third of the membership, so the strike does not really reflect the views of the majority of teachers who belong to the NUT.

I was called a 'scab' by a few colleagues who did strike (half jokingly), but at the end of the day it is the children who suffer through not having a teacher for the day. Also what did they prove? Our school functioned perfectly normally despite the absence of those on strike and I don't think any of them took part in a rally or protest - they certainly were't there stopping me from going to work this morning. Hope they enjoyed their day off!

[mossy]

My mums a teacher....trust me i dont blame them!

 

my mums a private teacher...shes on £31k

[peranapete]

My hat goes off for the teachers !

 

They deserve a lot more to what there getting !

 

Do you know the percentage raise there looking for is only half of what an Member of Parliament raise is going to be !

 

Now how is that fair !

 

And lets not go into MP's Expenses !

[Mr.Sumo]

my wife could go to work

 

Mate , i had the same yesterday . Just finished a 13 hour night shift , and had to sit up with my 3 kids til the wife came home from work at 2pm . Got 4 hours sleep yesterday

[ilovegrannys]

HI Mrs Nettles here,

 

I am a teacher, but I did not strike today. I did not go into teaching for the money as I see it as a vocation. Yes the work load is phenonmenal and the children we have to deal with can be very challenging (and their parents), however, I am ok with my wage and we are not the only profession affected by a pay rise below that of inflation.

There are over 200,000 members in the NUT, but surprisingly only 60,000 actually took part in the vote to strike. That's less than a third of the membership, so the strike does not really reflect the views of the majority of teachers who belong to the NUT.

I was called a 'scab' by a few colleagues who did strike (half jokingly), but at the end of the day it is the children who suffer through not having a teacher for the day. Also what did they prove? Our school functioned perfectly normally despite the absence of those on strike and I don't think any of them took part in a rally or protest - they certainly were't there stopping me from going to work this morning. Hope they enjoyed their day off!

 

You are a wise lady. What does it prove to strike? It s not the 70's (i wish OSF's etc) Striking is pathetic. The kids suffer, the Mother/Father suffer financialy (tell i never wnet to school). I am really am gripped on this subject. We just found out a lad who used to be on our ship is in a wheel chair now from supporting this countries interests, it wasnt in the news so no one needs to know do they. It is a dam shame. I cant put this in to the same cat as striking for a day. i bet most teacher used the day to catch up on their bloody work! In the Royal Navy there is a thing calle 'TIME MANAGEMENT', take heed, sort your lives out, its not hard!

[ilovegrannys]

my wife could go to work

 

Mate , i had the same yesterday . Just finished a 13 hour night shift , and had to sit up with my 3 kids til the wife came home from work at 2pm . Got 4 hours sleep yesterday

 

They just dont get it do they!!!

[petrolhead]

I can speak for both sides as I am ex-army and I am currently a teacher. I knew what the pay was like before I became a teacher (as do all teachers) and I didn't do it for the money - I was a design engineer beforehand so could have earned more money if I'd stuck to that.

 

I personally didn't go on strike because it is the kids that suffer and I do my job for the kids. One day doesn't have any real impact except for possibly generating ill-will amongst the public at what is a economically bad time of the year.

 

I don't have any bad feelings towards my NUT colleagues. I regard the pay as OK (good if you're single), I earn more than most of my friends.

 

Pay for a new teacher is around £20k after 5 years you should be on £30k. Minimum of 4 years University to get the necessary qualifications. Stress is high but boredom is very low!

 

If money had to go any where in the public sector I would put it towards service men and women who are injured on duty. I feel it is an absolute disgrace that some horrifically injured soldiers are awarded pitance while office workers with RSI and poorly performing Fat Cats get houdreds of thousands.

[Messenjah]

i bet most teacher used the day to catch up on their bloody work! In the Royal Navy there is a thing calle 'TIME MANAGEMENT', take heed, sort your lives out, its not hard!

 

my dad is a teacher, he is also a head of department and joint head of another. say you have 12 different teaching classes each of about 30 kids say it takes 5 mins to mark each peice of homework from each kid .... and they do homework and hand it in on one of their 2 lessons in a week ... 360 bits of homework 2 mins each thats 12 hours of marking atleast as alot of peices will take longer then that to mark ... dad gets 3 lessons in a week at school when he is not teaching but that 9 hours of marking to do outside of school assuming he doesn thave to cover for a teacher being off ill ...

 

then there are lesson plans probably takes 20 mins for each teaching group ... so thats another 4 hours ...

 

so were on 13 hours of work to do at home once hes finished work and with kids staying behind lookign for helpp with coursework and having to go in early for departmental meetings he will leave for work at 7 each day and not get back till half 5 so thats longer then an average day at work (9-5) and theres still over 2 hours a night of work to do.

 

 

Teachers work hard and some of the shit they have to put up with is unreal.

 

now im not saying servicement and women shouldnt be getting a pay rise im saying maybe you should get more of an idea how hard teachers actually work before saying they dont deserve a pay rise.

 

and no my dad is not a union member and no he didnt strike he was at work having to work harder to make up for the teachers that didnt show up

[Vista]

now im not saying servicemen and women shouldnt be getting a pay rise im saying maybe you should get more of an idea how hard teachers actually work before saying they dont deserve a pay rise.

 

Agreed

 

Chris as you know, I'm also an ex serviceman and spent a long time in some real toilet parts of the world. Now I accept that with current affairs in Iraq and Afghanistan the work load on the armed forces has increased of late, and that the government the MOD and in fact the general public aren't supporting the troops as they should. However that doesn't mean that teachers are getting a fair deal. The conflicts out there will eventually reduce and the casualty rate will drop again. When they do the average servicemans life will return to a fairly low stress peace time mode of exercises and foreign deployments. Teachers however will see no respite from the conditions they are facing, on the contrary with the current open door immigration policies I see it only getting worse for them.