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[Deleted member 9966]

My dad was a teacher for 30 years. He started his career when the cane was still in use. As such punishments and discipline were removed, so was my dad's love of teaching because he didn't like the unruly kids. My dad never bothered to plan for lessons, regardless of what Ofsted said to him. I work with people now who were taught by my dad and they remember everything my dad taught them, including the respect. I also know a lot of teachers working in today's education system and it's a completely different beast - you have to be accountable for everything. But in all honesty, why should you work under that pressure? You should kick back against the system and tell the government that we need to get back to teaching and instilling discipline. Teachers are very well paid and have always been very well paid, I believe they have an excellent remuneration package. I'd be happy for teachers to come and work in the private sector and earn the wages I earn, with the small pensions and substantially less holidays and see how they like it. Teaching isn't for everyone, it takes dedication, grit and determination especially when the government gives you hardly anything to hold your own with, but still, every person in the UK is in the same boat regarding wages, inflation, utility price hikes, food price hikes, property prices plummeting, investments and savings being non-existent. If the teachers want better wages, and good pensions, how are these going to be paid for? By the government? Who gives the government money? We do, in the form of taxes. If my employer wanted to give me a pay rise, they would have be making more money to be able to do it.

 

[Andy Allen]

bit harsh andy lol.... but to be honest around here those 6.30-7.30 teachers don't exist I see them walking home about 10 mins after my daughter comes home lol

maybe was a bit harsh, but i'm really peed off having to take the day off when i'm piled out with work, could of done without it at the moment..

 

[jonnyc]

dont get me started in this subject.
i think our teachers for the most part do a brilliant job and they should be paid well accordingly.
some are and some are not paid well.
i have a sister who has a well earned degree and is a manager of a nursery and she gets paid a pittance compared to a professional tiler.
i also have a wife who has given two years of unpaid help at a nursery because she wanted to and now that she is qualified and a teaching assistant she is paid the grand sum of £ 7.50 per hour in a private nursery in the heart of the most affluent area of our country.
this is a disgrace and an insult i think but she loves what she does and i would not want to deter her from doing what she wants to do.
I have other friends who up the other end of the scale and yes they do get paid well but they thoroughly deserve it.

 

[cam_low]

Unless you teach - you can't really comment.. teachers have accepted a pay freeze for several years, based on their pensions being protected. However, now Gove wants nore £££'s a month, for longer & for teachers to receive less in the end. You would need to speak to a union rep to really understand just how bad Gove's proposals are. I don't hear teacher's complaining about teaching, only desperate to protect a profession they feel passionately about - it's never reported unbiasedly in the media!

 

[widler]

The only people who stick up for teachers are
A teachers
B partners of teachers

They
A get paid decent
B get fantastic bloody paid holidays
C get a good pension
Wheras i
A get paid decent with work i have to find
B get crap holidays
C work hard
D get no pension unless i pay a fortune
E don't get to strike or moan about all of the above cos i chose to do my job and just have to get on with it, the country is bankrupt yet public sector thick they are above us, well REMOVED them.

Ps i think teachers do a good job, same as firemen, but i think both have lost a lot of support recently of the public, who at the end of the day pay them

 

[cam_low]

Same stereotypical view of the mainstream public.

Again. Do you really know why they are striking?

 

[widler]

Same stereotypical view of the mainstream public.

Again. Do you really know why they are striking?

Same stereotypical view of a supporter cam , you have you views the majority have theres .

 

[John Benton]

Same stereotypical view of the mainstream public.

Again. Do you really know why they are striking?

Not sure if it's over pencils or rubber bands this time!!

 

[cam_low]

I have seen first hand how teaching takes over your life...it doesnt become a career.

I ask again. Can you explain why they are striking?

 

[White Room]

From my understanding the fact they may have to pay extra into their pension and work till 60 ??