Teachers' Pay

The petition is entitled stop giving teachers pay rises above the rate of inflation and the explanatory notes say

"The Government needs to stop giving pay rises to teachers, with more poor teachers in the profession just for the money and government gifts such as housing assitance. the government should instead be assisting the poorly paid which work much harder than a teacher ever will."

Wow. Vitriol city! From someone who's clearly never, say, shared a house with a teacher, to give them an understanding of how hard teachers tend to work, or the difficulties involved in the profession.

I like kids and deal with them quite well, but I think you'd have to be paying me meeeellions of money before I'd put up with the indignities of teaching just for the pay.