Supply and Demand
Another row is brewing amongst Scotland's teachers - or some of them at least.
Apparently the SSTA (Scottish Secondary Teachers Association) is threatening industrial action - in some crazy dispute over supply teachers.
The employers want to pay supply teachers - who come back into schools through a revolving door after retiring - the same rate of pay as newly qualiified teachers.
So everyone is treated the same - seems like common sense and fair play all round - if you ask me.
Now everyone knows a teacher or two - and the ones that I know say the practice of bringing teachers out of retirement to do supply work - needs to be stamped out.
The people have retired for goodness sake - they've got their tax free lump sum and their pensions - why don't they just step aside and give the younger generation a chance?
Even more scandalous is that these retired teachers should be paid more than their younger colleagues - for doing exactly the same job.
Any my teacher friends tell me that often these retired teachers often don't do any teaching - they just 'supervise' the class - with Geography teachers taking English classes and vice versa.
So why would anyone pay top dollar for that - and why would the union defend two different rates of pay for the same job?
The solution is to pay the proper rate for the job - give first refusal to younger teachers - and don't cave into demands to treat retired teachers more favourably than their colleagues.
Apparently the SSTA (Scottish Secondary Teachers Association) is threatening industrial action - in some crazy dispute over supply teachers.
The employers want to pay supply teachers - who come back into schools through a revolving door after retiring - the same rate of pay as newly qualiified teachers.
So everyone is treated the same - seems like common sense and fair play all round - if you ask me.
Now everyone knows a teacher or two - and the ones that I know say the practice of bringing teachers out of retirement to do supply work - needs to be stamped out.
The people have retired for goodness sake - they've got their tax free lump sum and their pensions - why don't they just step aside and give the younger generation a chance?
Even more scandalous is that these retired teachers should be paid more than their younger colleagues - for doing exactly the same job.
Any my teacher friends tell me that often these retired teachers often don't do any teaching - they just 'supervise' the class - with Geography teachers taking English classes and vice versa.
So why would anyone pay top dollar for that - and why would the union defend two different rates of pay for the same job?
The solution is to pay the proper rate for the job - give first refusal to younger teachers - and don't cave into demands to treat retired teachers more favourably than their colleagues.
