"The 3.5% pay increase for teachers is insulting" Maud explains why she thinks the pay award for teachers last week is insulting and doesn't reflect the cost of living in the UK as well as highlighting the impact of the unfunded part of the award, what do you think? Is 3.5% enough? π
"Well, I think it's insulting, to be fair, to be given a 3.5 pay rise when we know the cost of electricity, of fuel have been rising for years because of international affairs. I mean, we know there's a war in Ukraine now with Iran and I understand it's international issues, but the fact is we are feeling the brunt of it. I happen to live in London. I'm a renter. My landlord can increase the rent. He did it two years ago by 35 percent, just like this before Christmas. I can't say no. I just have to pay. It puts me in a position where I have three jobs because I just want to keep up, you know, paying all my bills. And then being told that I'm going to get 3.5 and I should be thankful is rather insulting, particularly as the effect of an unfunded pay rise is that my head teacher said, whoever's leaving now, we're not replacing. And because we have very high rates of teachers leaving, I'm just thinking, so does it mean that? Because every term we shorten our speeches, our living speeches, because we have so many teachers leaving. And it's not just the teachers. Apparently, we used to have a head of year and a deputy head of year. Now we're only going to have one. We have falling numbers of children in our schools in Islington. That's a fact. And it's again because people can't afford to have children in London. So we're going to have less children. We're going to have to have more children in the classroom. I had 31 pupils in my year 10 class this year in French."
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"The 3.5% pay increase for teachers is insulting" Maud explains why she thinks the pay award for teachers last week is insulting and doesn't reflect the cost of living in the UK as well as highlighting the impact of the unfunded part of the award, what do you think? Is 3.5% enough? π