Are these really the teachers of our children?

[Helen S]

Sorry can't give you a link but the photo is in todays daily express. A very large group of N.U.T strikers. What a scruffy bunch! Actually i've seen better dressed people on a certain so called sink estate lately in Dewsbury! What is it that makes them think they automatically deserve respect?
Because we have allowed standards of all sorts of behaviour including 'dress' to fall abysmally in our once great country this is the sort of picture that is now being shown around the world - absolute disgrace. Don't critisize people for having high standards - have a go at others who have none!
Ladywood - no actually, if they dressed better in school also they just might give a perception of professionalism!
Ms.Jay - there is absolutely no reason to be rude - unless of course you have for some reason taken this personally. My children went to an exceptionally good school where parents like myself, professional people and the local university lecturers also were a part of the PTA. We simply didn't allow standards to fall, had very few exclusions and year after year our school came out in the top three in the north of england. I also gave some of my own free time up working with the local business education partnership.

 

[old know all]

Teachers get paid reasonably well. OK They're not the best paid profession, but there are plenty of us who wouldn't mind being paid as much as they do. They want more (don't we all). The Government has decided to share out the cake and spend the money on other things so the NUT have resorted to blackmail to get their own way.

What sort of lesson is this giving the children? Mum says no we can't afford it - so have a tantrum. I suggest that the entire membership of the NUT should be given a good smacking and sent to bed with no supper. Better still, sack the lot of them and put them on the child abuse register.