W.A. teachers striking again

[Muschu]

Please don't assume, or guess at, what I "tend" to think about other careers or the important contributions many others make to society. This includes our postie, the supervisors building the house next door and a dental specialist I am seeing today.

Your focus is teachers. Mine is kids, especially the disabled and those with other special needs.

How many times do you think a supervisor, has to answer the phone in the middle of the night or several times over a weekend , when a fault or incident happens at site.

How many hours do you think a supervisor has to put in, of their own time writing up proceedures and safety protocols.

You tend to to think this is a unique experience that teachers have.lol

The only unique experience teachers have is 12 weeks annual leave.

Try 4 weeks leave in 10 years, and then the company goes belly up.lol

 

[Ijustnewit]

I saw the story on ABC 24 about this strike yesterday. It featured teachers in a park listening to ranting union officials . Then featured the teachers and supporters dancing in the park and listening to a live band.
How is this helping the childrens education ? And will the teachers give up some of their holidays or the many pupil free days to catch up on lost education time for the children ?
I still don't understand the ever increasing pupil free days . Wouldn't be great to work in any other service industry and have customer free days or patient free days. How is it the teachers can get away with this under the guise of better education ? Isn't time spent actually teaching more critical than having pupils away while they have a day of doing what ?? If the teachers need time to prepare and do whatever they say they do on pupil free days , why can't they do it on a weekend like the rest of us ?

 

[trainspotter]

Let alone professional development days, DOT time, sick leave accrual, long service leave, time in lieu blah blah blah.

http://det.wa.edu.au/careers/detcms...and-teaching-levels/?oid=Category-id-14081653

Whilst I understand that they are not asking for an increase in pay it might be more prudent to see if there can be more outcome based model of funding. It would appear that Education Assistants are going to be axed and the teachers might actually have to do some work for a change.

WA's Education Minister Peter Collier has previously said overall funding for education has increased by 55 per cent since the Liberals took government in 2008, although student numbers have increased by only 9 per cent.

He said that was unsustainable and the cut which has sparked the reaction equates to a 1.5 per cent decrease in education funding across the state

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-01/teachers-strike-at-langley-park/5359176

 

[drsmith]

I saw the story on ABC 24 about this strike yesterday. It featured teachers in a park listening to ranting union officials . Then featured the teachers and supporters dancing in the park and listening to a live band.
How is this helping the childrens education ? And will the teachers give up some of their holidays or the many pupil free days to catch up on lost education time for the children ?

What took the cake for me was just before the 11am news on ABC 720 (radio). An 8yo girl at the protest was asked why she was there and she gave her well rehearsed answer.

As for pupil free days, there was none of that when I went to school. An occasional extra long lunch break when staff had a meeting I assume, but that was it.