Dear Teachers of NZ – you are our last chance!
Dear Teachers of NZ
Congratulations on your mega strike, it was incredible seeing those numbers on the streets of NZ in the biggest strike we’ve seen in the modern era.
The simple truth, andIi think it’s one you are realising, is that the ONLY way you can win is by going on a mega strike once every 2 months, and then monthly.
At some stage, the Government have to bow to your demands, and seeing as the ‘transformational budget’ was about as transformative as a lump of coal, you are the last chance progressive NZ has to show people power is the only truly transformative force in politics.
Your fight is now the most important fight. You can not give in now, you must actually teach by example at a crucial point in our cultural and social history.
We face enormous challenges and are being led by a Government that is still too inexperienced to overcome the vested interests refusing to answer those challenges.
If we are to see education receive the real value it deserves, you must fight on every month, only then will the Government relent.
Your struggle is the struggle for the soul of our country.
You have much to teach us at this inflexion point.
Kia kaha.
For 9 yrs our teachers got crushed by national and our schools run down and in this period our childrens education was suffering, why oh why didn’t our teachers do anything cause there inaction was our kids suffering unnecessary. Were the teachers and our school principles scared of national were they too scared to protest or speak out ?
Exactly, as such; Sympathy = Almost None !!
I don’t believe they were afraid of National, I think it more likely that they are National supporters.
If it weren’t for the wingeing middle classes who unashamedly vote National, that rotten dishonest party would never get the opportunity to flog the people of this country for the benefit of the 1%’ers.
NZ teachers, nurses, police, public service staff = National supporters.
Labour love locking people up too.
Well said. I’m going to generalise here but most teachers I know are married / partnered and probably better off than most. I’m not saying that they don’t deserve more, I am saying that there is a bloody long queue of more pressing cases. Teachers in general have pay and conditions that are far better than most workers, try being an aged care worker or bus driver. I have more sympathy for them because they acted against a National government, rather than await a Labour government who might have been perceived as a softer option.