April 16, 2009
Good to see the nation's teachers showing a healthy dose of realism again. Guru has often thought that teachers don't live in the real world, and the latest news seems to confirm that theory.
Not content with having a third of the year off, the part-timers have now demanded a 10% pay rise. Members of the National Union of Teachers have backed the claim despite mass redundancies across all sectors and calls for restraint in public sector pay.
Public support for teachers is already on thin ice following strikes last April when thousands of schools were disrupted and parents had to take days off work as a result.
Guru wishes they would stop bloody moaning. No wonder British society is full on whingers and scroungers when we've got the biggest moaners of the lot in charge of our kids' education.
Three weeks at Christmas, two weeks at Easter, six weeks in the summer, half-terms, training days, bank holidays. Average pay for teachers is almost £33,000 - well above the national UK average salary.
Please, just stop with the glass-half-empty attitude; you guys have it a lot better than some out there.
Not content with having a third of the year off, the part-timers have now demanded a 10% pay rise. Members of the National Union of Teachers have backed the claim despite mass redundancies across all sectors and calls for restraint in public sector pay.
Public support for teachers is already on thin ice following strikes last April when thousands of schools were disrupted and parents had to take days off work as a result.
Guru wishes they would stop bloody moaning. No wonder British society is full on whingers and scroungers when we've got the biggest moaners of the lot in charge of our kids' education.
Three weeks at Christmas, two weeks at Easter, six weeks in the summer, half-terms, training days, bank holidays. Average pay for teachers is almost £33,000 - well above the national UK average salary.
Please, just stop with the glass-half-empty attitude; you guys have it a lot better than some out there.
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Comments (2)
Hardly insightful comment. I agree that asking for a 10% pay increase is naive and in the current climate slightly bizarre, but to then generalise across the whole of teching is akin to saying that all HR professionals are cardigan wearing, tissue wielding, inconsequential pen-pushers who wouldn't know commerciality if it came up and spanked them....hmmm come to think of it.
There are lots of teachers who work incredibly hard and do a remarkable job on a starting pay of £20,627 for a graduate (the £33,000 includes those on the management pay spine) and who would be embarrassed to see calls for 10% pay increases. Guru should perhaps concentrate the ire towards the Unions and not the teachers?
Anyway, I always thought the biggest moaners of the lot were bloggers.....
Posted by TheHRD | April 16, 2009 9:01 AM
Posted on April 16, 2009 09:01
Teachers are one of the most important people in society today, and its completely shocking that how under appreciated they are.
Most teachers have intense workloads throughout the year, and this myth of less working days and shorter hours is completely unfounded.
I'm not in the teaching profession, but I'm who I am because of the teachers who helped me get there.
Posted by AA | April 17, 2009 9:20 PM
Posted on April 17, 2009 21:20