LGTL

Why do you need to keep mentioning this? Everyone knows what's happened, and he's served his time and managed to re-build his life very successfully. He also happens to be one of the best posters on this site, as VFTP and under a previous username. IMO.

Yes.

The potential to earn money in the Private Sector is so much greater than in the Public Sector. If you're a good enough worker, with a decent education, there are PLENTY of massive companies still employing, still making huge profits and still being very generous to their staff. For professional Public Sector workers such as teachers and nurses who want to stay in their career choice, they have no other option... If you couldn't avoid the pain working in the Private Sector, that says more about the worker then anything else.

All of this is making me wonder just what Cortese has up his sleeve. I can't imagine he will just sit back and watch the rest strengthen, the next few weeks might just get a bit interesting.

All this "my dad is bigger then your dad" by the Private Sector is nauseating. It is perhaps no conincidence on this thread that it's only teachers, and partners of teachers, who appreciate just how hard they work. But everyone else knows best of course, with their years of teaching experience.

One of the better ideas that Gove has put forward is an increased importance upon academic acheivement in order to teach. I'd make it a 2:1 or above profession, as regardless of course or Uni that does at least require some amount of effort. It is increasingly becoming a Masters profession too. However, being an extremely bright student doesn't mean they'd come close to being a good teacher, and government recognise this otherwise they'd just be done with it and offer £60k a year to only those with 1st's from Russell Group Uni's. That would ultimately mean the brightest would teach, but there's a reason why no governemnt would do that.

aintforever was obviously bullied by some big bad teacher during his school days...

I can just see the Daily Mail headline if parents without a CRB come in and "look after" the children. Dear oh dear, Gove really thought that one through again didn't he.

The holidays are for the children. If there are no children to teach then what's the point of the teacher being there? What's the point of giving a teacher 4 weeks holiday and have them sitting in their classrooms planning and marking, when they could just plan and mark from home? I don't hear the uproar about those that work from home in other professions. If it was worked out, I expect many teachers probably get less then 4 weeks real holiday time a year anyway.

Part of me is annoyed I got anything in the original ballot, as it appeared alot easier to get Athletics tickets in the 2nd chance sale with a bit of effort.

When the government stop taking the **** out of them. A Tory coalition one year in;

Yet strangely, they started a pointless war in Libya due to their government doing exactly that! Go figure.

Cracking, you didn't get that HND for nothing did you! If you're referring to the Unions, then no, of course it isn't. Teachers are free not to join if they wish.

How do you mean a closed shop?

It's already been established in this thread that the Private Sector is just as bad as the Public Sector for waste and all these other buzz words the Tories love to pigeon hole us in to. That chip continues to get bigger though and I for one quite enjoy it.

What, death? That's some claim.

I'm not joining the profession to be liked. No opinion matters to me until they have spent a day in a classroom. That rules Gove out then.

I would genuinely take any of them, and I think they'd all be a valuable addition to our strikeforce, which I don't think would then require any further work for next season.

Whether the strike is necessary or not (i'm firmly in the necessary camp), at least it shows the Tories that teachers won't roll over and accept every single daft proposal that they have for the education system and teachers as a whole. You can bet your bottom dollar that if they weren't striking, Gove would have his calculator and flip chart out wondering what else he could f*ck up without any real opposition.

very good

I've heard Barney Trubble did it off a 600ft cliff, only without a paraglide! He's a hero you know.

Of course, when they came back to your house you'd be a massive help wouldn't you, being 6ft under and all. They'd all know you weren't there 24/7. They could come back, rape your wife and children, murder them too and where would you be Barney eh?? What an amazing husband and dad you must be, thinking of being seen as a "hero" rather then being alive to look after your family! What a sad selfish little man. And you don't think i'd challenge them too? Have a word! But there are times in life where you have to think of other people except your own pig ignorant self. I'm so proud of your hero instincts though, needless to say if I came and robbed your house i'd enjoy watching you try and get anywhere near me, and you'd probably end up drinking through a straw you'd no doubt enjoy telling everyone what a little hero you were though.

It always reminds me of that Only Fools and Horses episode. Classic.

So Barney, if someone had a handgun and a 6 inch knife on them, you'd fancy a fight over a TV, risking your life and your families future? That isn't so much having no backbone, more being sensible. If they are unarmed that's a different matter, but it's difficult to tell i'm sure. Or would you be the type of brave hero where your children can only visit you in a morgue?

Cortese is a hugely successful banker. EVERYTHING he does in regards to finances (ST sales, new shirts etc) will be based around tax and saving the club money in the long run.