Strikes strikes strikes

The government can end the teacher strike by paying teacher salaries directly rather than from the school budget. That way schools aren't penalised for having experienced staff which financially cripples them!

Except the government has no money to cover this as they get away with paying schools such low amounts.

So what’s you’re alternative?

Send your precious children off everyday to increasingly underfunded schools until the building collapses round their ears? (Google the death of a student at liberton high school due to substandard building work)

Of all the things people get shitty about spending more on you would think that they would at least recognise the benefit of adequately funding the places they farm their kids out to day in day out.

You want schools to be in loco parentis for 5/7 days but actually paying people to adequately to perform that is too much?

Investment in education is investment in the future of our society, it’s pulling everyone up by the boot straps not just those whose parents can afford to let them believe they pulled themselves up by the bootstraps!

Europe is awash with strike action at the moment. 😂 France only made it onto uk news because Charles had to cancel his trip there.

@Rainyrunway

the people who are a fault for this are all those who voted brexit and Tory in 2019.

anyone who blames the war and other factors just needs to compare to other countries in the West (ps the France issues were all about getting pension age to 64 which as we all know is a lucky position). It’s rather simple.

Those moaning about teacher strikes and their kids missing a few days of education..... It’s not the few days missed due to strikes that should be your main concern. It’s the quality of education on the days your kids are there you should be concerned about. With staff shortages because teachers are leaving and the difficulty recruiting new ones, your kids are getting a sub standard every day they’re at school. If teachers aren’t paid well for the job they do, it’s only going to get worse.

And it’ll be the most vulnerable kids that come off worst. My kids school are giving the top sets the regular teachers. The less academic kids have a different supply teacher every lesson sometimes. Kids are being written off.

I support the teachers and pretty much everyone I know does too, even those who don’t have DC. The only one I know that doesn’t finds her three DC irritating and it’s an inconvenience for her to have to look after them at home (her words, not mine, and she’s not currently working).

I think I think the government will cave bit by bit. They've sorted the Royal Mail strikes now.
I support the teachers and have told my MP and kids Headteacher this.

According to polling the public are actually majority in favour/neutral for all striking groups.

What were they saying on LBC, out of interest?

That's because they don't seem to understand the point that it isn't about pay. The current offer would be fine if it were properly funded. Schools are already in deficit so to then have to pay increases out of already stretched to the bone allocated budgets would destroy them. Do these parents support not having enough staff to keep the school open each day or no TA's in a class that has 20 SEN children (non EHCP) because they've had to make redundancies to cover pay increases? Are they happy for their child to be taught GCSE maths by a PE teacher? Not be able to do any practical work for art, technology or science because the school can't afford the resources to do the lessons?

It seems a lot of those against teachers striking are hypocritical because they support NHS strikes. You don't hear of HCA's being made redundant to pay nurses increases though, or staff having to buy dressings and medication out of their own pay because the wards don't have enough do you. So why is it ok for them to strike?

Surprised todays teacher strikes aren’t bigger news, to be honest, which doesn’t bode well.

The vast majority of parents I know remain supportive of teacher strikes. If you want good quality teachers teaching your kids, support the strikes.

Teaching has to be an attractive career, when it’s not, teachers leave and no one wants to take their place. We are screwed. We must support the strike action.

I think they'll stop after the next general election (so 18 months time) when we have a new government in power.

The current government are ideologically opposed to reaching a settlement. They don't want to make it look like the unions "won".

Radio phone in now on LBC re teachers strikes - parents have really lost patience with teachers and any lingering sympathy for their pay demands seems to have now evaporated.

They should just accept being poorer

(according to the Bank of England yesterday 🙄)

When they’re all paid what they feel is fair I suppose. Good for them.