Striking Teachers

[joeluke]

Parents are fined if they take their kids out of school for holidays in term-time, yet teachers can strike when they feel like it without fear of repercussions.

Parents are inconvenienced enough times having to arrange extra childcare for the countless 'teacher training/inset' days during the school year

Parents get fined for taking kids out of school, yet no penalties for teachers when they strike and don't turn up at school at the first sign of snow

[sherrardk]

I don't want a 68 year old teaching my kids. I think their big moan is that the goal posts keep getting moved.

Pixie, it was today so I think you would have noticed if their schools had been shut.

[joeluke]

Well paid and a quarter of a years annual leave

How many workers in the private sector would like a job like that............and would just get on with it instead of taking pointless strike action?

[sherrardk]

Then those people should strike, their choice - but maybe that would have even less effect as it wouldn't mean people having to find child care .

[sherrardk]

The people in the private sector should have taken jobs in the education sector then - their choice.

[pixie373]

Is it Thursday today?? Omg. Sorry! :-)

[joeluke]

Wake up Pixie, it's 2014 ;-)

[pixie373]

Really?? They don't tell you anything round here:-(

[joeluke]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2687199/More-million-public-sector-workers-including-teachers-firefighters-binmen-strike-bitter-dispute-pay-pensions.html

'Many of the estimated 4,500 schools closed in England and Wales only told parents yesterday, leaving people scrambling to find alternative childcare or asking their employer for a day off.'

[shaneystar2]

Jeza ,babies grow up and go to school which is what the OP is all about .
I don't understand what you mean .

[joeluke]

'It's been in the news for 2 weeks the parents has ample opportunity to be prepared!'

You're assuming all parents watch the news/read newspapers?

[royfromaus]

regardless of where your sympathies lie '


pixie373
Divebuddy, teaching would be harder imo. I couldn't do it.



Statements like that are just daft. A teacher is already a teacher, a steel worker is already a steel worker. The latter is a job that requires you to be physically fit and can only get harder as you grow older and more frail.

[joeluke]

So if we want to take our kids on holiday in term-time without incurring a financial penalty can we not just say our children have gone on strike for a week/fortnight?

When in Rome............

[Jeza]

I mean whatever job you do, we all have to learn, but new mums are thrown in at the deep end. Do you really need a degree to teach a child how to read and write? I don't think so. Further up the chain then yes, but not a 5 year old.

[sherrardk]

That's just childish, the term time holiday fine has been introduced by central government and is administered by the LEA (who pocket the revenue). You can go on holiday in term time if you have exceptional circumstances or if it is for less than ten school days (probably need to check the last bit). The whole thing is ridiculous and is causing problems for families and for the leisure industry.

[sherrardk]

Jeza, the whole early years curriculum is far more subscribed than it used to be. Even babies in nursery/pre-school have individual Learning Journeys. Might be easy to teach one five year old to read and write, try thirty and factor in the ones that need extra help plus all the other stuff that has to be done.