My status today is for all my fellow Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Early Years Practitioners, council workers and other public sector workers who are losing a days pay today in order to exercise their DEMOCRATIC RIGHT to strike. Teachers are professionals; they work extremely hard under increasingly untenable conditions. The majority of teachers strive to improve year-on-year and want the best for the pupils they teach. The reason they are seen as “constantly complaining” is due to the fact that they can see a profession they love, and schools to which they have dedicated much of their professional lives, being broken beyond repair. So before you jump on the teacher-bashing bandwagon, consider this: the very fact that the country seems to ‘grind to a halt’ when teachers walk out is because teachers affect each and every one of us. Yes, it is a great pity that strike action is being taken; but it is an even greater pity that the lack of consideration for the views and expertise of a profession has led to such action being necessary. To secure the future of education in Britain, changes do need to be made. But teachers should be at the forefront of these changes, in the interest of improving the provision for our children long-term. Politicians, who seem happy to simply divert public attention from the crisis in our schools, by pointing the finger at teachers, simply wish to paper over the cracks – at least until after the next election.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 05:51:35 +0000
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