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Originally Posted by Guinness
So armed with your SMART and VAK teaching styles, just what pray tell have you accomplished that the teachers of 20,30,40 or even 50 years ago did not? Apart from a reduction in standards of education
Your argument about starting at 7.30 finishing at 6...those care workers do 13 hour waking shifts and then do 10 hour sleep overs that rarely afford them any sleep, thereby going home some 23 hours after leaving. On their pay slip it probably says 70+ hours and still I'm willing to bet its less than half of your 32.5.
Some care workers are spat on, kicked, punched, verbally abused on a day to day basis and still go home smiling, they have to deal with disgruntled and abusive family members with a smile, and cope with death and grief also on a daily basis.
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I agree that many pupils doing A levels today would struggle to pass the eleven plus exams from 1937. However, this is not 1937. Hopefully, we educate children to live, work and contribute to 21st century communities and to bEcome vital members of society e.g. care workers.
I agree that my hours, conditions and pay are better than many, but also worse than some too. I have family who do work in the NHS, and indeed they smile at work, as, I believe should all workers who deal with people, in whatever their role (possibly not coroners etc.). I also agree that I probably do not need a pay rise, a little belt tightening would possibly do me good.
What I do object to is the incredibly sweeping nature of some of your statements, which are, to be blunt, wrong.