But is this not because of our previous perception of a teachers workload.
We learn very quickly just how hard they work when someone close is in the profession but their prospects are generally very good and their wages seem to refelct this.
My wife is a teacher, and she is not on strike.
She comes from a different background as most teachers, she has generally been self employed all of her life, never is ill, never could be, couldnt afford any sort of pension, 16 hour days and hardly a day off and never knowing if there would be...