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Good luck striking teachers!

Sweet FA said:
Southampton's not a hotbed of activism but we got a few hundred last time. Council have "unfortunately pre-booked" the Guildhall Square so we're shoved into a corner of the park...
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The strike in Southampton has disrupted my working week :mad:

Just kidding - I'm 100% behind it. I'm working in trackie bums, and the nipper's watching The Goonies. :thumbs:

It's about time unions in general started throwing a bit more weight around IMO.

I've a naive and probably quite ignorant question though - where do teachers stand with NASUWT not striking? I know if I was NASUWT I'd not be very comfortable working today - effectively crossing a picket line - but if they stayed away they'd have no legal protection would they?
 
We can only hope that the message from the teachers gets through the wall of narcisstic self defeating self employed twats that iv've heard on the radio this morning.
 
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London earlier, look at all of them!

btw that's just by Broadcasting House, wonder if they(the bbc) ignore it?
 
Bloody scrougners. I've had to take the day off work just to be in the same room as my kid?

"what do you do?"

I'm self employed.

"so you could work from home today?"
 
Indeed.
My wife is a primary school teacher. She has a class of 39. She is regularly assessed as “outstanding” and has responsibility for literacy in her school.
Educating children is her passion, and teaching is her vocation. She is angry and frustrated at the changes Mr Gove is making to the curriculum, which she sees as turning education into nothing more than test-passing, and her job into nothing more than spoon-feeding. All the joy, imagination and fun in learning has been stripped away. Such things are as important to being employable and making a worthwhile contribution as rote-learned facts, if not more so, and it’s quite possible to impart lots of knowledge whilst at the same time making the activity of learning appealing in itself. Gove doesn’t seem to share her view on this.
Her working day begins at 8am, and she often doesn’t have a drink or even time to visit the toilet until the children leave at 4. Two days a week she is on playground duty at lunchtime which means eating her lunch whilst walking round the playground. One other lunchtime she leads a dance class.
All that time between 8 and 4 she is supervising 39 five year olds, several of whom have behavioural difficulties and one or two of whom are sometimes violent towards her. She doesn’t begrudge them this behaviour and spends a huge amount of time on them to try and allow them to make the best of things. But if children misbehave the school policy is that they miss break time and have to stay inside, supervised, be her. I don’t know how she manages to stay calm when children are hitting her, but I do know that a single word or action out of line from her would lead to suspension, probable dismissal and financial ruin.
She comes home at 4 (except on Mondays and Wednesdays when there’s a meeting til 5, and Thursdays when she leads Rounders club).
Every day there have been 6 lessons, so another 6 need planning for the next day. Many lessons have an exercise in them, which needs marking 39 times. She lugs boxes full of 39 books each into and out of the house each night and spends at least two hours a day on average marking them.
I sometimes have to plan a ten minute presentation at work and spend ages on it. I imagine her having to do six of them every single day.
I know lawyers, doctors, accountants, nurses, and I can honestly say that none of them work as hard as my wife. She is incredible and her colleagues are too.
She has 13 weeks of non-classroom time per year in the holidays. Of that time, I would say at least half is spent either in the school preparing for the next term, marking or lesson planning. For instance during the recent half term week she was in school all day on the Monday and Tuesday and again on the Friday, along with lots of her other colleagues. One colleague took a week’s foreign holiday and this was seen as almost scandalously unusual. The summer holiday is the only real break, and whilst I’d love 5 weeks off in the summer I wouldn’t trade my working life for her’s in a thousand years.
Don’t ever think that teachers have it easy.
She's not asking for much. Just for an education secretary who listens to evidence from educational professionals, an end to annual pay cuts (there have been four in a row) and the protection of pensions which whilst generous relative to the private sector are what we should all be going for.
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Posted on Guardian CIF,

A day in the life of a primary school teacher, pretty shocking.
 
One self employed genius on t'wireless earlier said that teachers that 'don't like it' should leave and be replaced by foreigners. I nearly shat my breakfast through my nose.
 
I'm striking today. My daughter's school has also closed, so she's at home too. Unfortunately my 2nd daughter has chicken pox so we're all indoors.

I would like to think this strike will change things but I think only getting rid of Gove and his cronies will see any chance of that. Even then I fear for education tbh.
 
I haven't actually had the stroppy parent brigade adorning any of my feeds with "lazy teacher" malachy today.

it leaves me somewhat, er..... suspicious.
 
sim667 said:
I haven't actually had the stroppy parent brigade adorning any of my feeds with "lazy teacher" malachy today.

it leaves me somewhat, er..... suspicious.
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Why are you posting on here instead of whipping yourself with barbed wire? :mad:
 
Damn you teachers, I've been forced to spend a nice day engaging with my son, drinking coffee with friends and having some 100% chat time with him with no interruptions. It's been hell. I expect you're selfishly expecting us to drop everything so that you can waste everyone's time asking for decent conditions.
 
Solidarity! My sister and bro in law were out today, both new to the profession and feeling the strain already. God knows what it'll be like if they have kids.
 
The Guardian's Haroon Siddique has been out talking to those affected by today's teachers strike: parents and pupils taking advantage of a quiet day to visit London Zoo. He found most parents supporting the strikers, despite any inconvenience:
Just over a mile away from where striking teachers were rallying in central London, some children, whose schools were shut for the day, were being treated by their parents to a day at London Zoo.
While many had been forced to take the day off work, there was no resentment aimed at the strikers.
Gbola Owoborode, 45, who was with his nine-year-old twins Lanre and Sade, said: “I took the day off so it affects you financially but the benefit is we get to go to the zoo today, get to enjoy the day.” His message to the strikers was: “Good luck to them.”
Terry McKay, 52 was with his nine-year-old daughter. “I’ve had to take the day off work – my wife’s at work – but it’s not that desperate.” Asked about how he felt about the strikes, he said “I’m a supporter.” His friend Gill Mackaskill, 44, there with daughters Caitlin, 9, and Laura, 7, concurred. “I think what Gove’s trying to do is wrong,” she said. She would normally be at home anyway but said the strike offered “a nice chance to have the kids at home and do something educational”.
Theatre administrator Daisy Heath, 36, with her five-year-old daughter, was another who had taken the day off, although in the past she said she had worked. “My partner, a teacher usually would be striking but he’s just become deputy head,” she explained. “We’re broadly supportive of the action.”
Richard Law, 44, said his son Etienne, 10, was suffering from the disruption. “He’s in year six and it’s interrupted his Sats. It’s put more pressure on him as he’s got to have two exams in one day [instead of one].” But he did not blame the teachers. “They’re entitled to strike,” he said.
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I bet the BBC finds plenty who don't.
 
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