The annual Teachers threaten to strike thread

On the pay deal, in some ways I agree with the Union here, pay should be linked to CPI, but it should always be the case.

If CPI is 5%, then pay should follow.

If CPI is 0%, the you get no pay rise.

Teachers, especially during the Celtic Tiger and when infamous Benchmarking was happening, had massive pay increases, well beyond CPI.

As usual, they want it both ways.

Mark tells us how you really feel will you?

You are some whinger god bless you and the people who have to listen to you.

Do you not think teachers should have been prioritised for vaccination after the sick and elderly?

Its how they have always operated. The government should do away with the supposedly temporary tax that was the USC and give every worker some more breathing space.

We should all care.

This is public money we are talking about. There are better ways to use that money.

And giving it in salaries to people who are already very well paid with great pensions and holidays is not the best way to spend our public money.

I have already suggested in this thread that whatever money is available should be spent on employing more teachers.

That would give much better value for money for society

Careful now, your ignorance is showing again

No you didn't let's be honest. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Ah ok, so you're one of these parents who want to use schools as a child minding service. Otherwise what does the "working world of parents" have to do with the days your child is in school ?

I think that I partly have a dim view toward the profession because my secondary school experience was so rubbish. I think I was at least 70% self taught, just covered material on my own. This is due to the ridiculous teacher student ratio. I remember classrooms of 30:1. Now they seem to be working toward 24:1. I live in the us now, hardly known for their level of general education but the schools I look at have a ratio of 11:1. That surely has to make a huge difference. I honestly feel like I was kept in a detention centre for 5 years and had to self study to escape to university, I think some of the anti teacher sentiment might stem from there. Most of us had a terrible education until we escaped the clutches of the second level system.

Remember its the working parent who pay for things like your wages. The day of the little woman staying at home and looking after the kids are long gone both members of a relationship have to work in order to pay for mortgages and taxes (which pay for wages for teachers) and our public sector holiday entitlements need to be adjusted to how things are in 2022.