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Oh dear. Rather large fail here. Christine Blower, the Head of the NUT is a qualified teacher! She started teaching in 1973 up until 1990 when she started working with children at risk of care or custody. All NUT reps are actively teaching, like most industries.

Either you're certain or you aren't. This comment highlights the need for quality teaching most clearly. I was generally in middle/top sets at school so I didn't see too much of the nightmare that dealing with bottom sets (either through lack of intelligence and inability to grasp simple points...

So what about the role of parents in all of this? It is a teachers job to TEACH children not bring them up. When you have kids that get to primary school at 4-5 years of age, who cannot read or write or are toilet trained it's a disgrace.

Some utterly ridiculous myths being peddled here. Same old every time the teachers strike comes up. Inset days are NOT a day off. The kids have a day off, the teachers are in school to TRAIN. Short days? Rubbish. They may be in school from 8 till 4 but they then come home and work. Marking...