Is it any wonder our teachers went on strike last Tuesday?
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The NSW government is two-faced. The Premier and all his acolytes tell us, on the one hand, what hard-working, dedicated, outstanding teachers we are blessed to have in our schools; what pure gold our teachers were during the Covid crisis; and how well our children are progressing under their tutelage and care.
But on the other hand, the Department of Education's bean counters work day and night on squeezing the last drop of blood out of teachers in the name of budget restraints.
The main reasons for the present teacher shortages causing serious problems in our schools are a skyrocketing number of students wanting to enrol in our schools, lower salaries in teaching compared to other comparable careers, and a shortage of fully qualified applicants mainly created by insufficient numbers of new teachers graduating.
If everyone doesn't unequivocally support our teachers' claims for better working conditions and salaries right now and convince the government to increase their salaries they are calling for, we are going to have more and more teachers resigning and more and more students sitting in rooms with no teachers to teach them.
Patrick Lee
Port Macquarie