Teachers – We must have more pay. Write it out 100 times after school
One of the things that have to admire about the teaching profession is their consistent denial of reality – when times are good they demand pay parity with other professions. When times are bad, everyone is taking pay cuts or indeed being made redundant ... they demand more pay
One of the biggest teachers' unions in England and Wales is demanding a pay rise of 10% or at least £3,000, whichever is greater
Sorry Mr & Mrs Taxpayer, our view of the wider economy is obscured by a pamphlet on Union activism. But better still was the attitude of one delegate at the NUT conference, one Becky Williams
One said she was so fed up with the job's strains and repaying her £25,000 student loan that she was going abroad. The government said teachers' pay and conditions had never been better. The average teacher's salary was £33,000, it said. But Becky Williams, a history teacher from Nottingham, is going to work in a private school in Kenya. She told the conference that after four years in the profession she was earning just £26,000
If you want to make huge pots of money, you don’t go into the education – you become an MP & tell porkies about your expenses until such time as your index linked pension kicks in. If you want wear sandals, believe in Op-Ed pieces published in The Guardian & take absurdly long holidays, you become a teacher.
However, Ms. Williams, only 4 years after graduating is probably already earning just about the equivalent of the average family in the UK...but still she wants more. No doubt one of her course modules while at Teacher Training College was “Entitlements” & this dear readers should not in any way shape or form be confused with “Hard Work”. In fact if it were down to me & Ms. Williams can thank her lucky stars that it isn’t, her passport would be revoked until such time as she had repaid all of the £25,000 she has borrowed from the taxpayer before she were allowed to leave the country.
Come the Glorious Day, there are going to be a few changes around here
Comments
Seriously, their union has an acronymn of NUT?
Need I say more?
Posted by: Cricket | April 15, 2009 3:54 AM
I don't know how it works Over There, but are teachers not paid according to the actual number of hours they are at work? Considering that they are, in essence, working only three-quarters of a year, isn't their pay fair?
Posted by: Kim du Toit | April 16, 2009 2:29 PM