Teacher pay rise/strike

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AIBU to want people to realise that the potential teacher strikes are NOT about the percentage payrise?

They are about the fact that this payrise would be unfunded, which means they would have to come out of already stretched budgets. This would mean redundancies and even fewer resources. This has a direct effect on the children.

Please remember this when you are slating teachers.

Yes, I said that an assistant who is hired just for 1:1 personal care need not do the traditional teaching/learning assistant role alongside and then also end up covering. (It would be a teacher pulled for cover first, then a TA, then SLT themselves in my school, but not to my knowledge a support assistant, first aider, librarian or cover manager standing in front of a class)They can be very different and hired specifically for certain welfare needs (not welfare staff as in lunch supervision). The different roles and titled can become blurred in discussion and across different schools, but the role I'm thinking of is no less skilled or important, just different.

Always something to strike about

Not sure that's true. I am in another union who didn't viteto strike. Our school didn't close. I have worked there 10 years and not been on strike at all. So no it hasn't gone on years. I think the NEU have only had two periods on the last 10 years.

Isn't there just? It's depressing that successive governments hold education to be such a low priority, even one that had recruiting more teachers as one of its main pledges.

But that is not what the original poster said, they said anyone can be a child support assistant and schools shouldn’t employ TA’s to do that role. Which was the issue I took with it. Of course they shouldn’t be pulled for cover as they are employed to support that child. I just felt it was very insulting to 1:1’s and also an attitude that was very wrong for our children with complex needs.

Like I said though, in mainstream primary I have never known a 1:1 TA not need to provide learning support too, as that is the function of school and the EHCP will
be written to ensures children are accessing the curriculum so they will be skilled in more than personal care.

I feel this is going off in a tangent, I only wanted to picked up the previous poster on their attitude to 1:1 teaching and learning assistants.