TEACHERS UNION STRIKE LOOKS BAD ON GOVERNMENT

BY JAMES SIMONS

Teachers across the country are staging a national day strike next week, as part of the National Union of Teachers.

All primary and secondary schools in Waltham Forest,  the North East of England, and will close on Tuesday, July 5. The strike will be disrupt classes seriously.

Over, 1, 200 teachers are expected to walk out as part of the strike. Complete school closures are expected in many schools across the country. This national teacher’s strike reflects really badly on the government. First, we had the NHS strike staged at different periods of the year, now we have teacher’s complaining. Not good!

Branch secretary of NUT hull branch secretary, Mike Whale, told the eye of media.com that something needed to be done to protect the integrity of the industry for the children.

Whale said existing working conditions for teachers needed to improve, stating this as the reason recruitment and retaining of staff has been a struggle in the UK.

Claiming teacher’s were underpaid, Whale told the eye of media.com:

” A survey conducted a year ago  suggested teachers work on average 60 hours a week, and if you divide their wages by those hours you find that it equals less than the minimum wage”.

This is a terrible failing on the part of a government that really should value the role of teachers in educating students today. This national teacher’s strike looks bad on the teacher’s. Primary and secondary school children are the future, and deserve quality and we’ll paid teachers to nurture their educational development. The state of affairs in which teachers are underpaid is wholly unacceptable and really reflects badly on the government. Teachers play a role of paramount importance in the training and development of children. They also put up with the stress caused by nuisance kids with behavioral problems. Add to this the extra work load of preparing lectures, marking assessments,  and being available to oversee naughty and non complying children assigned to detentions, and the full scale of their services and engagements are clear to see.

Our government needs to really think hard and address the issues raised by teachers if they want to ensure the adequate education of children in this country. Not enough is being done to help teachers do their job effectively, and this is plain wrong. This strike will constitute a huge inconvenience to parents who should  be at work during this strikes, but some of whom will need to be at home or hire people to look after their kids. In the case of some children, they will wonder the streets when they should be in school, making them open to bad influence and truant behavior. The government really needs to get a grip!