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Stop bashing our teachers
I must reply to the appalling letters from Helen Gaen, Edith Parsons and others, criticising teachers for going on strike.
It is worth pointing out that teachers have all our children's future in their hearts.
Secondly, I don't see how, when you take action to enhance a "living" wage, your correspondents slam the very people who are aggrieved.
Teachers don't want to go on strike, but they do want and surely deserve, at the very least, a rise that matches inflation, something they have not received for several years.
Look at the large class sizes and the number of children being taught by helpers.
Why don't people attack the perpetrators of these 'crimes' against working people?
These so-called politicians attack everyone, including the police, prison officers, civil servants and pensioners.
People only strike as a last resort and history can thank people in the past - Levellers, Suffragettes, Chartists - for giving us the reasonable amount of freedom and working conditions we enjoy today.
They are being eroded almost daily.
We want highly qualified, committed teachers who are motivated, not undermined!
Mind you, left to people like the "teacher bashers" in your letters page, my children would still be going up chimneys!
Shame on them!
Are they ex-teachers?
TIM SIRET
Evans Road
Eynsham
3:54pm Monday 12th May 2008
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CommentPosted by: alan page on 4:38pm Mon 12 May 08
Well, I do hope that when Service station staff and supermarket shelfstackers hold a week long wildcat strike you feel the same way.
Not that they are likely too of course.
On less than a grand a month take home pay, they couldn't afford to.
Exactly how the system is designbed to work!!
Well, I do hope that when Service station staff and supermarket shelfstackers hold a week long wildcat strike you feel the same way.
Not that they are likely too of course.
On less than a grand a month take home pay, they couldn't afford to.
Exactly how the system is designbed to work!!
Posted by: Mr Ison, Ison on 10:15pm Mon 12 May 08
Notice the reference to self absorbed minorities,you owe a debt of gratiude to the Tolpuddle Matyrs much more than those others.
Union Members march for the Martys but not those others.
Notice the reference to self absorbed minorities,you owe a debt of gratiude to the Tolpuddle Matyrs much more than those others.
Union Members march for the Martys but not those others.
Posted by: eminoxford, oxford on 10:39pm Mon 12 May 08
Thankyou very much for your comments Mr Siret. I am sick and tired of people having a go at teachers. I didn't strike because I didn't want the children I teach to miss out or their parents to be put out. However, some people need to get their facts straight about teachers. Most of us work incredibly long hours- contrary to popular belief we do NOT start at 9 and finish at 3 - if only!!! But despite this , I love my job!!
Thankyou very much for your comments Mr Siret. I am sick and tired of people having a go at teachers. I didn't strike because I didn't want the children I teach to miss out or their parents to be put out. However, some people need to get their facts straight about teachers. Most of us work incredibly long hours- contrary to popular belief we do NOT start at 9 and finish at 3 - if only!!! But despite this , I love my job!!
Posted by: Mr Ison, England on 12:37am Tue 13 May 08
You never see scabs marching for their cause.
Perhaps they should.
You never see scabs marching for their cause.
Perhaps they should.
Posted by: Zacharias Ziegla, Rose Hill on 1:01pm Tue 13 May 08
I'm afraid eminoxford, like Tim Siret, is one of those pathetic but dangerous leftwing idiots, who have covered up for Labour's crimes against Britain (if Siret, like others of his ilk, says, "Hello and Goodbye" its in OM Letters next day). Naturally, as the chickens come home to roost, we'll increasingly hear their cracked crowing.
Teachers, having played a major role in mis-educating (confusing) British school children, are just starting to understand their predicament, but don't know where to turn. Their situation, predicated on self-centred ignorance, is to continue acting as willing, or unwilling, accomplices in promoting false notions of multiculturalism.
Best advice to them is sit back, think for a while, and then start to grow up.
I'm afraid eminoxford, like Tim Siret, is one of those pathetic but dangerous leftwing idiots, who have covered up for Labour's crimes against Britain (if Siret, like others of his ilk, says, "Hello and Goodbye" its in OM Letters next day). Naturally, as the chickens come home to roost, we'll increasingly hear their cracked crowing.
Teachers, having played a major role in mis-educating (confusing) British school children, are just starting to understand their predicament, but don't know where to turn. Their situation, predicated on self-centred ignorance, is to continue acting as willing, or unwilling, accomplices in promoting false notions of multiculturalism.
Best advice to them is sit back, think for a while, and then start to grow up.
Posted by: eminoxford, oxford on 7:17pm Tue 13 May 08
excuse me Mr Ziegla - how dare you!!! You don't know me from Adam and yet have made several spurious remarks (all drivel) about me and my fellow teachers-exactly how much time have you spent in school - observing what teachers are teaching? Clearly you are an expert!!!???
excuse me Mr Ziegla - how dare you!!! You don't know me from Adam and yet have made several spurious remarks (all drivel) about me and my fellow teachers-exactly how much time have you spent in school - observing what teachers are teaching? Clearly you are an expert!!!???
Posted by: Zacharias Ziegla, Rose Hill on 9:04pm Sat 17 May 08
Sorry eminoxford for delay in replying to your little rant - unfortunately, some of us, unlike so many teachers, are busy folks.
Please give me some clues as to why I'm so wrong about your so-called profession, and I'll gladly oblige you with answers.
Sorry eminoxford for delay in replying to your little rant - unfortunately, some of us, unlike so many teachers, are busy folks.
Please give me some clues as to why I'm so wrong about your so-called profession, and I'll gladly oblige you with answers.
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