Striking teachers warned of lockout

I'm an ununionised teacher. I have no problems with bigger class sizes (as a parent I know I'd want my child in a room with 30 others and a good teacher than in a room of five with a bad one).

The pay rate is probably on average pretty reasonable (just under $70K), but there are no incentives to go the extra mile. I work hard (damn hard for my students with exams, reports and coaching etc), it is annoying to see the unmotivated/lazy/incompetent getting the same. I wanted to be a teacher from early on, yes it is a vocation to me (if I was in Ireland and was told 17% cut I'd still be infront of the class positive and enthusiastic).

All I seen was a reporter asking the union about lock-outs then another reporting asking Tolley the same. Neither the union nor Tolley actually raised the issue, the media did...lol

Anna
Suffice to say the private sector is not earning the GDP to cover the public service and reality needs to set back in since Labours increase in the public service by 47% in 9 or so years (which no country could afford).
Yes, like all workers (which I am but one) there is not allot out there on the horizon for us as far as pay rises go. But the public sector cannot spend up unnecessarily (I totally agree with your point on the politicians raises) when the private sector is not bringing in the necessary earnings.
However, National Politicians were not the only politician's to get huge increases as their salaries are governed by, yet another Govt Dept, the Higher Salaries Commission.
I have to agree that allot of our teachers are now Leftist who are more interested in Social Engineering rather than teaching our children basic education, all since the advent of Tomorrows Schools. I have always said that Tomorrow’s Schools are turning us normal people back into Neanderthals which are exactly what leftist types would like. This makes it easier for them to control us as they have their Leftist Social Engineering Varsity degrees and we will be mere peasant puppets for them to ridicule and keep their thumb screws on.
I cannot believe the numbers of public servants who do not realise their salaries are due to the work and grind of the private sector ... UNBELIEVABLE.
A change is even coming in places like Cuba where the new regime has realised that their Govt controlled leftist idealism no longer works, but sadly at the expense of 500,000 Govt jobs. They have now realised that their economy will never recover if they don’t change!!!

Typical National Party garbage.. try to weaken workers by threatening lokcouts.

Who is going to take the teachers place exactly? whilst they are locked out? Parents lol thats a joke.

National Party Ministers just got a huge pay raise by way of the Tax cuts for the overpriviledged.

Whether or not they get another increase is beyond the point.. Teachers arent paid $150,000+ per year and many havent had a decent salary increase since prior to the recession.

National has slashed and burned, and cut and hacked.. and what benefit has there been? none that I can see other than larger unemployment lines.

Teachers have lower standards now than at any time in the past. Most are left wingers who have never been in the real world and actually work and produce things for a living. It is only right that they be tested and they take responsibility for their shortcomings. Oh and TV3 a crappy biased article again.

Yeah welike to have lots of warning about impending things. Oh was the topic teachers? We also get confused.

How come this article only mentions the pay stuff - that is NOT what this is all about, but seems to be the only thing that the media are interested in covering.

Ann Tolley seems to be fine with packing students like sardines into the classroom. Seems to be fine with increasing paperwork. Seems to be fine with ignoring Principals concerns. Just not sure what her vision is, but that's not the type of leadership that inspires confidence.

Yes and who said that we in Christchurch were going to get hit with a 6.1 after shake?????perhaps we are lucky had over 1000 after shocks already after the next 1000 we should know when the big one is going too arrive,Media should be more Factual and not Non factual as it is very concerning too the elderly down here.

You would lose most teachers to burnout if there wasn't holidays...most of us spend the first week sick and then the next recovering and preparing. Most other workers can at least enjoy their lunch in peace or go somewhere outside of their work environment...most lunches (or any break we have) we have to deal with incidents that have occured or talk to other staff about problem students or call parents or do 'security'...we are like the teacher/social worker/security/parent etc all rolled into one....most of you have no idea of what a teacher actually does unless you have experienced the job yourself. I teach in secondary at a low decile school and generally love it but it is getting increasingly harder especially as a lot of parents do not seem to actually be parenting instead leaving it up to the schools!!?? A lot is expected from teachers and we do feel undervalued...we do a lot more than actually just teaching. Would you want to teach 30+ 13-18 year olds???