Do they really want to force everyone out of teaching. There have always been two major advantages to teaching as a career:
1. The holidays.
2. The pension.
If they tamper with the holidays there will be major unrest within the profession, so in a bid to save however many billion pounds, they are having a go at the pension. For the first time since the 1970s all the teaching unions are talking about a strike. Not only are they telling teachers that they are useless in various different ways (if other people want to attempt to do the job better, they are welcome to try) but they now want teachers to pay more towards their pension and receive less, or at best, the same at whatever age they are allowed to retire - at the current rate when teachers are about 102.
This is what happens when people who don't actually do the job anymore make decisions that those who do the job have to implement, normally against their better judgement.
Please don't think that this is a party political thing; it makes no difference what colour rosette the government wears, the results are still the same: worse conditions, higher (if not impossible) targets and more inspections from people who aren't worth the paper they are printed on.
The pension thing is just the tip of a very large iceburg, and I would put money on the fact that teachers will strike at some point very soon.
What fun - can't wait!
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