Classes disrupted as teachers stage strike

[bigmarco]

I think any democratic vote that has a 92% vote in favour of action has to be taken seriously.

He admitted that he was "concerned" about the amount of hours teachers were working per week, and he said that he wanted to try to reduce this by cutting the amount of bureaucracy and red tape teachers had to face

This quote from the schools Minister clearly acknowledges that there is a problem. I think you'll find that a days strike action will concentrate the governments negotiators minds and hopefully bring about a peaceful settlement of this dispute.
I did express my solidarity with a rather large group from the NUT who came to pay their respects at Bob Crows funeral on Monday.
We entrust our children into these peoples hands for a large part of their early lives and it's only right that they should be adequately rewarded for the work they do.

[Dedworth]

We entrust our children into these peoples hands for a large part of their early lives and it's only right that they should be adequately rewarded for the work they do.

A mate of mine is a staff governor at a comprehensive school and he tells me plenty of interesting stories about inept teachers and the way public money is thrown down the drain. Just for starters last Sept they took on a 27 year old as Head of Chemistry she is so inexperienced and incapable that she cannot teach A Level Chemistry but that hasn't stopped the school ignoring external applicants and promoting her to Head of Science from Sept 2014.

Last night he told me that they disregarded 4 decent candidates for the Headteacher vacancy and picked a character with a somewhat murky recent past - he left his last headship 5 years ago and started a dubious "consultancy" that "raises" sponsorship money for schools from private companies, during the interview he told the panel he'd resigned from this operation and it had shut down. Funnily enough it's website is still up and he's shown as an active director at Companies House. They've hired him on £88000 a year