Friday 6 September 2013

Must Try Harder

Then again, perhaps not.

More today from the chaotic world of Michael Gove, who is immune to criticism because he is not only a hack, but a Murdoch hack.

Making the case against the Bedroom Tax. But unwittingly. For he is witless.

The first national teachers' strike in heaven alone knows how long.

And now, the expected arrival of his much-heralded new exams when we are all dead, if then.

Still, the strike point is important. The abolition of National Pay Agreements across the public sector will have a devastating impact on provincial incomes, and thus on the very existence of the private sector and of the middle class, as well as on any sense of common nationality.

6 comments:

  1. It's time for a counter-strike by the taxpayers who have to pay for this disgrace.

    No wonder teachers are revolting over plans to link pay to performance.

    That'll swiftly root out the underperformers.

    And, boy, they won't like it.

    Its about time these types were taught-the hard way-that our public services (including schools) exist to serve the people, not those who work in them.

    Our schools don't exist to line the pockets of sub-standard teachers, but to educate the next generation.

    If they don't like that, then they know exactly where the door is.



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  2. They are going to win.

    Everything that Michael Gove touches turns to dust, yet he still has no idea how to cope with anyone whose reaction to whatever he might happen to say is anything other than how clever he is.

    They'll run rings around him. They are already running rings around him. The fact that the situation can have reached this point demonstrates that. So to speak.

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  3. "They are going to win"

    The question is-is that a good thing?

    Really, why shouldn't underperforming teachers take a pay cut?

    Pay is linked to performance in every other functioning, aspirational sector of society-from our Olympic team to our Armed Forces.

    Hierarchy is essential in any good organisation to ensure everybody aims for high standards.

    Egalitarianism doesn't work-either for school kids, or for their teachers.

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  4. Not at all.

    Isn't it rather sureal to see people on strike when they already receive far better pensions than most of those private-sector workers whose tax money pays for them?

    Including many of those whose kids will be affected by the strike.

    Our schools were already ranked worse than Estonia and Slovenia last time the OECD surveyed them.

    People just aren't going to put up with this for much longer.


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