More Equal Than Others?
If you believe the news headlines, Scotland's teachers are up in arms - over planned changes to their conditions of service.
Now these changes haven't been explained in any detail as yet - but as far as I can see they would simply involve bringing teachers into line - with other council employees.
So what's the fuss all about - surely teachers don't believe that they are entitled to better, more favourable treatment than everyone else - simply because they're teachers.
What kind of example would that set for Scotland's children and young people - being schooled in concepts such as fairness, equality and social justice?
I'm sure I wrote something about teachers' conditions of service recently - I must dig the post out and publish it again.
Because we're bound to bombarded with a load of old baloney from Scotland's teaching unions - on why teachers deserve to be treated as 'more equal' than others.
But let's face - do the trade unions believe that a Teacher deserves better conditions of service than a Classroom Assistant or a Nursery Nurse?
And if so, why?
Differences in pay are one thing - as these reflect different skill levels and responsibilities between different jobs.
Differences in conditions of service can't be justified in the same way.
Because they are normally about discriminating unfairly in favour of one group - at the expense of another.
Now these changes haven't been explained in any detail as yet - but as far as I can see they would simply involve bringing teachers into line - with other council employees.
So what's the fuss all about - surely teachers don't believe that they are entitled to better, more favourable treatment than everyone else - simply because they're teachers.
What kind of example would that set for Scotland's children and young people - being schooled in concepts such as fairness, equality and social justice?
I'm sure I wrote something about teachers' conditions of service recently - I must dig the post out and publish it again.
Because we're bound to bombarded with a load of old baloney from Scotland's teaching unions - on why teachers deserve to be treated as 'more equal' than others.
But let's face - do the trade unions believe that a Teacher deserves better conditions of service than a Classroom Assistant or a Nursery Nurse?
And if so, why?
Differences in pay are one thing - as these reflect different skill levels and responsibilities between different jobs.
Differences in conditions of service can't be justified in the same way.
Because they are normally about discriminating unfairly in favour of one group - at the expense of another.
