To think this could solve teachers' problems

[NovemberRains]

Teachers want higher pay.

Their employers currently pay a whopping ~24% into a defined benefit pension scheme!

AIBU to think that a lot of their problems could be solved if they were just given the option to either continue as they are, or get a 20% pay increase and have a 4% employer contribution to a standard defined contribution pension scheme like the vast majority of the population get!

I respect teachers, but based on my knowledge when overall remuneration is considered including pension and holidays, they really aren't underpaid compared to other professions!

It's a similar story for other public sector professions!

I think you're right. And the same with the Conservatives. They don't care as it won't affect their children or grandchildren safely in the private school system.

However, as a member of the Facebook group on leaving teaching (125,000 members, mostly in the UK) there are lots of stories from school staff leaving private schools as well. Sometimes the salary and the terms and conditions are actually worse.

@Postapocalypticcowgirl Agree entirely. My colleagues are in their early to mid 40s and have a much less realistic view of what’s happening in schools than my colleagues who are early to mid 20s. Worryingly, none of them privately educate either!

I’d have assumed that covid would have reinforced the message about the importance of teachers but it seems to have done the opposite somehow?!

I think lots of private schools are opting out of the teacher pension for their staff so they aren’t finding it easy to recruit either.

Most of the people on the Exit the classroom FB page seem to be leaving teaching altogether.