The annual Teachers threaten to strike thread

As our taxes do not pay for retail workers to work

Talking to a neighbors son home From London who teachs there, he said Irish teachers are paid approximately 25-35% more than teachers in the UK and have 5 weeks more holidays in Ireland than the UK??

Teachers in the UK would take your hand off for the pay and holidays Irish teachers have according to him.

Note that many wage rates here are 25% higher than the UK.

Yes, UK kids spend more days in school in June and July, but as a result are they cleverer than our kids????

An entirely fair point but it brings us back full circle to the fact that teachers here are paid well with a good salary scale and generally good perks of the job, and calls for more pay are not really entirely credible.

I completely accept there's a problem in that loads of teachers languish for ages without being on said scale, but the first point is high enough that when you eventually get there, it's compensated well enough.

I fully support addressing those issues within the profession, absolutely, but I cannot support calls for more pay that paint a general picture of teachers being over-worked and under-paid, barely scraping by.

A nurse can be working for 5/6 years before they're on the first point of the teacher scale, believe it starts at around 30k. So they are not entirely dissimilar when you take the years of crap many teachers have to put up with.

Unions would be mad to be looking for more pay rises on top of the pay rises agreed and on top of increments after a 2 years period where teachers did phuck all work during the pandemic..The money is not there.

Please show details of any statistical analysis done anywhere in the world that assesses performance of teachers taking into account the variability of students? You might want to read up on the extreme difficulties encountered in both Ireland and the UK attempting a statistical analysis to calibrate grades assigned by teachers. I'll be delighted to hear how you've managed to solve the problems encountered all over the world.

Perhaps more importantly, you might want to clarify what problem you're solving here. I know it's a bit of a mad idea, but if you're going to come with a new way to performance manage teachers, you might want to speak to a) some principals, b) some teachers, c) some parents and d) some board of management members. Again, a bit mad, but maybe you could ask them what problem they need solving, instead of doing the seagull-consultant approach. What problem are you trying to solve?

The thread title doesn't say 'refused to rule out' though, so it is widely inaccurate. There is a fairly big difference between threatening something and refusing to rule out something.

ROFLMAO. This is hilarious, really.

Did you tell your parents everything that happened in the classroom? Did you ever put a particular spin on things, to make sure you came off better and your teacher came off worse.

To suggest judging performance of anyone based on hearsay is the painfully childish and inadequete.

There is no 'extra day'. If you want to know exactly what happened in your school, you'll need to speak to your school. The most likely situation is that the school held back a day or two for weather contingencies, to cover the possibility of being closed due to snow or flood. When they got to mid-March with no extreme weather events, they made a judgement that they didn't need to hold onto this contingency, so they closed for the Monday instead.

That's a guess, but speak to your own school if you want the detail. All schools have the same number of days in their calendar.

Were you serious? Did you want to me repeat the answer I had already given you? You're the one claiming to know what everyone thinks on a topic, when you clearly have absolutely no idea what happens between a principal and their teacher. Do you think that teachers flag up their performance management actions in the school newsletter or what?

How is it second hand when its coming from the parent of the child. In order to teach you need someone to teach?