Teachers are being forced to improvise with sign language to communicate with primary school pupils whose language skills have been severely impacted by lockdowns, according to a new report.
Parents in Oakland are struggling to feel much sympathy for striking teachers. They're not striking for better pay and conditions, but to advance the causes of reparations and environmental justice.
With salaries for headteachers in British state schools of up to £156,000 a year, only heads in Luxembourg earn more, according to figures from the Organisation for Economic and Co-operation and Development. Starting salaries of £61,000 also trump all but a handful of nations. Which begs the question: Why have members of the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) decided to join the three other teaching unions in calling for strikes? Do they want even more money? The Sunday Times has more. All four unions have rejected the government’s latest pay offer of a £1,000 one-off payment for 2022/23 on top of an earlier pay rise of 5.4% and an average 4.5% pay rise for staff in England in 2023/23. Teachers in Scotland and Wales have already accepted pay offers of up to 14.6%. Unions want their pay offers fully funded by new money from the Treasury, not taken from existing school budgets, which they say means there is less money to run the schools. They claim that just 0.5% of the pay deal they were offered is funded by additional money from the Treasury. So far strike action has shut or partially closed about half of all state schools, but if the three main teaching unions and head teachers walked out on the same day this would cause much wider ...
One of the most powerful teachers union bosses in the U.S. was blasted Thursday on CNN for supporting school lockdowns in the pandemic. A sign of the tide turning?
Drag queens should be invited into schools to make them more inclusive, the U.K.’s biggest teaching union has said in a vote to challenge the "heteronormative culture and curriculum that dominates education".
Parent group UsForThem has urged parents to fight back against the teaching unions that have urged schools to ignore the easing of Plan B restrictions in schools.
More than a third of schools have at least one in 10 teachers absent due to Covid reasons, as some students refuse to wear masks in class or take tests, according to teaching unions.
With the Government refusing to bow to teaching unions and tighten restrictions in schools, the unions are fighting back, telling their members to ignore Government guidance and introduce stricter rules anyway.
Over-cautious unions have played the crucial role in driving the country into lockdowns, writes Dr. Ben Irvine, an Honorary Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Durham.
Schools are drawing up plans to send whole year groups home amid concern that the Omicron variant will lead to staff shortages in January.
