Tuesdays strike

[Sopster]

Bit on the bus behind here (have had a v stressful few days!) BUT will all schools most likely be striking on Tuesday? Not had any communication from ours at the moment. Thanks for any info from anyone better informed than me!!

*& what are the consequences for a school covering with other teachers to stay open?
How do the unions enforce the rules?
Because our school always stays open despite a few teachers striking

I found this a few weeks ago:

Week beginning 30 September: one-day teachers’ strike in East Anglia, East Midlands, West Midlands, Yorkshire, Humberside and parts of Wales

Week beginning 14 October: one-day teachers’ strike in the North East, London, South East, South West and parts of Wales

Late November: national strike.

My Dc's school have some classes off, some in. We already had childcare sorted for next week just in case.

Wales have called theirs off - their Education Secretary is willing to have a professional dialogue with them, you see.

juniper I got cross all over again reading your list! Bloody Gove!

I am currently in ATL, (although support the strike and am intending to switch unions in time for any further action) and therefore the only teacher in my school apart from the deputy head who will be open for business on Tuesday. However, my afternoon's PPA would normally be covered by an NUT member, which means that my class will be sent home at lunchtime.

Our Head is totally supportive of her 15 teachers who are all out on Tuesday, despite being totally against shutting the school under any other circumstances - for example, we never shut in snow, EVER. For strikes, however, she just says, let me know, if you can, whether you're in or out and I'll cancel whatever needs cancelling.

Being as they want to fine us for taking children out for holidays can I fine them for having to take a day off work ;)

Who's "they," fluffy?

I'm also in the ATL (at the moment and support my colleagues who will be striking) so I will be the only teacher in my school working on the strike day ...not sure how many parents will send children to school especially if they have older or younger siblings not in school that day.

TAs will be working as normal Captain but shouldn't be doing any work normally done by striking teachers - their unions will be able to advise

My teachers that day are striking, so as a HLTA I am focusing on doing some of my own work. I am owed a fair bit of PPA as I haven't had mine in the last week or two. I also have some work to do to set up our new iPads. Hoping to get a couple of the other TAs to give me a hand, so that they can get put into general use next week.

I definitely won't be sitting around doing nothing though - got so much to do! Infact working right now - having a 5 minute break whilst some software downloads.

Fluffy101 - fine who? The Government are the people stopping term time holiday s - so fine them maybe? The teachers have no say in whether your child has a term time holiday or not - so why would you fine them? You do know they won't be paid on Tuesday don't you? They aren't getting paid to stay home or go on a rally.

I feel very sympathic to the teachers striking. I have seen at first hand the utter hell the present govenment has caused. The suffering of disabled children is far worse than working parents having to take a day off due to a strike.

A well organised school will get TAs to up date displays, sort through resources or do first aid training. There is plenty of work that TAs can do on a strike day. When I worked in a school done I got loads done on a strike day.

The whole point of a strike is to disrupt and bring attention to teachers' grievences. If these strikes did not cause a small amount of chaos then they would not work. However the teaching unions are considerable of the amount of chaos they plan to cause. Special schools are often excempt from strike action because the level of chaos caused to the families of disabled children is unfair. The staff of special schools are expected to donate a day's pay to a hardship fund instead.

Support staff and non striking teachers often have child care issues as well. Striking teachers lose a considerable amount of money going on strike as well.

I feel pissed off that my daughter's school has decided to be open for children who go to the school's after school club only. (There are plenty of working parents who cannot get a place at the after school club.) I feel that every child's education is important and it would be fairer to prioritise fsm children or the older children rather than the children of working parents. It is wrong to give a child an education over another child just because their parents have paid for childcare.