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Oct 2013
3:17pm, 3 Oct 2013
961 posts
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Fellrunning
Quite literally fleecing the customer....
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Oct 2013
3:27pm, 3 Oct 2013
2,135 posts
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CStar
Trouble is Heebie, is that the NUT/NASUWT etcl leaders have seemingly never once accepted any change as any good at all. So that every time we hear about yet another teachers' stike you can just feel everybody going "Oh FFS not again" Whatever the validity of a particular issue I'm afraid that the teaching Union leaders lost most of the general public's sympathies years ago.
Now, if they were to say 'You know that's a good idea and we support this initiative' (whatever it is) then that really would be news 
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Oct 2013
3:58pm, 3 Oct 2013
744 posts
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ThorntonRunner
I'm not a teacher, but I am chair of governors of my local primary school. The changes that teachers have accepted over the last few years have been very significant. There have been very few strike actions by teachers during the 13 years I've been a governor (2 or 3?). What there has been is politicians of every colour wading in to education with their own pet theory and own pet academic laying down how teachers should do their job.
I have massive admiration and respect for the teaching profession - is there any role more important than educating our children? The teachers I deal with are passionate about the children in their care, dedicated to their work, and pulling their hair out at constant new initiatives from central government which make the goal posts a moving blur.
And don't get me started on academies;) (we converted on Tuesday as the playing field is so skewed between local authority schools and academies that it was the only way we could get an age range change through in time to be sure our children had a school to go to for year 6 [we were Reception to year 5, with high school year 6 - year 9, but the academy free-for-all has meant a pupil grab by competing local schools changing age range that was squeezing out our high school, so they've had to go academy so they can change to year 7 - year 11]). I'm just about to go do my head's performance management review, and one of the issues will be how he can keep his finger on the pulse of the teaching in the school given all the financial admin of now being a limited company.
<gets off soapbox;)>
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Oct 2013
7:40pm, 3 Oct 2013
457 posts
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kjtindall
I'd like a preference on the BBC website that filters out stories about neglectful parents and mummified children and that other child that had to steal food out of the bins to stay alive but no one did much. I'm not denying the existence of evil, it just upsets me to read about how people treat children, babies even and I'd just rather not know.
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Oct 2013
7:47pm, 3 Oct 2013
2,137 posts
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CStar
TR, I do understand. I'm Chair of PTA and therefore have a good relationship with HM of both schools whcih has given me a good insight into many of the pressures.
When Fetchies rule the world life will be simpler. Lord Fetch for President!
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Oct 2013
7:54pm, 3 Oct 2013
2,872 posts
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Wobbling
Same here K, I've been having bad dreams of late about kids suffering.
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Oct 2013
8:12pm, 3 Oct 2013
458 posts
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kjtindall
Wobbling, never affected me, never gave it a second thought until I had kids but now it really affects me. I switch off the telly, turn off the radio, don't read the page. But I just think how could people actually do that. Starve a child, torture a child. Don't want to know, just don't.
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Oct 2013
8:56pm, 3 Oct 2013
962 posts
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Fellrunning
There are happy endings sometimes. I'm married to one...
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Oct 2013
9:04pm, 3 Oct 2013
2,140 posts
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CStar
Our former next door neighbour suffered. I remember him talking about it one evening. No sexual abuse, but just treated like absolute dirt by his parents. Just so far beyond my understanding that it was difficult not to just sit there with my mouth open.
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Oct 2013
9:08pm, 3 Oct 2013
963 posts
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Fellrunning
We've been married 34 years on Sunday - she still sometimes tells me stuff and I just have to go out for a walk. If they weren't already dead I'd make arrangements to make sure they were soon...
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