MikeTC posted on 30 November 2011 08:45
Various thoughts on strike day:
1. Calculate your pension here: http://www.teacherspensions.co.uk/calculator/calculator.html
2. How did we respond to students' EMA protests?
3. My meagre company (Thinking Classroom) pension has lost 20% value in the last year. Thanks stock market.
4. 7/23rds of my working life as a teacher; 7/23rds of today on strike?
5. Well-respected HT friend of mine is open today, living with conflict, yet living authentically to his value system, "How can I bang on to the parents that every day counts yet close when it suits me?"
6. What are we (ALL - any sector, any level, any income) prepared to give to get us out of this hole?
7. How many 68 year olds are teaching full time?
8. What if we bought less, had less, did less, lived more?
9. Will the Daily Mail pick on protest-banner spelling mistakes?
10. What is worth protesting over? Learning? Curriculum? Time? Who washes the mugs?