Strike Two....

Everyone's whingeing about the teachers going on strike today.
Listen here, State/Federal Governments, just give them the bloody payrise they're after - we can afford it after all - so that they can get back to the job of teaching Noise and Pencils the stuff they need to know, six hours a day for 40-odd weeks a year.

(Of course, I don't include Noise's home group/english teacher in that. Vicious old bat - 67 years old, hanging on like grim death to her government job and failing dismally to perform. I wish she's stfu already and fall off the perch.
Of course I mean that in the nicest possible way.)

Can you imagine the stress involved in spending that much time with other people's kids each day? Given that the rules in schools these days mostly apply to the teachers and not the students it seems - then add to that having to listen to people banging on about "kids these days can't read or write anyhow". My children can, possibly because (a) they've had some really good teachers and (b) I read to them when they were little and always bought them books - as well as nintendos and assorted techno-crap - and to this day take them to the library once a week.

The way I see it, if kids aren't learning well enough these days, it's got more to do with the way the government/education department keep stuffing around with the curriculum than anything the teachers aren't doing properly.

Still, it would be nice if today was used as this term's "pupil free day".....

Happy Sleep-In Day Teachers!