What happened on 5th April 2023
This Wednesday became a day of education issues in the news. First a head teachers union in England rejected government pay offer while teachers voted for another three days of strike. Redditors supported their decision. "Very glad the heads voted for this. Heads need to ballot and actually vote to strike this time. One union cannot do all the legwork." "Good. The offer is an effective pay cut from where they should have been. Keep fighting! Keep demanding fair pay and funding for schools." "It’s less of an issue of the actual pay rise and more of an issue that almost the entirety of the money will come from existing school budgets. The government won’t be providing any additional funding. In other words, it’s the government trying to underhandedly punish teachers by making them take the money for their pay directly from the schools educational resources (because their wage budget actually contracts in many cases). Knowing that headteachers won’t wa...