The government has announced that it will maintain the very salary cap that has caused the decline in teacher salaries relative to other degreed professions which, along with crippling workloads, has created a teacher shortage. ❌❌❌ #GallopInquiry
The #GallopInquiry warned, the government’s position on public sector wages “would undermine the standing and attractiveness of the teaching profession and be unjust given the evidence of change, intensification of work, and the value of the profession"
The #GallopInquiry warned, "without a significant increase in salaries, the State Government will not be able to address the significant shortage of teachers in NSW or recruit the additional ones to meet rising enrolments.”
It is now the responsibility of the profession to campaign and win the changes that are necessary for the future of the profession and, ultimately, our students.
The membership is to ready itself!
Reannouncing the contemptuous salary cap, Treasurer @Dom_Perrottet said “I would like to thank all of our public servants"
It's going to take #morethanthanks to attract and retain the number of teachers needed to ensure every child is taught by a qualified teacher.
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#COVID19au Yesterday Federation sought a response to a series of contradictory statements including: 👇🏻
• the need to observe social distancing protocols which are impossible to implement in classrooms, corridors and most school playgrounds;
• statements that children are low-risk agents for the virus at school but suddenly become high-risk agents in shopping centres and public playgrounds, while also ignoring the fact that tens of thousands are travelling on trains and buses each morning and afternoon;
#Covid_19australia
Teachers have been thrust onto the frontline of this crisis.
The Premier has failed to provide any reassurance for our public school teachers and principals. 👇🏻
The Premier has failed to issue clear and unequivocal advice in relation to school closures.
What we have now is a recipe for chaos.
Encouraging parents and caregivers to choose whether their children attend school or not fails to offer any assurances or provide any certainty. The Premier has created a moral dilemma for parents.
#Covid_19australia
Teachers and principles are not dispensable.
An urgent meeting is being sought with the NSW minister.
Answers are needed 👇🏻
As of midday, yesterday, plans were being enacted to wind back school operations. Described as the UK model, schools were to remain open with appropriate levels of supervision for children of essential workers.
In the UK, schools are being kept as empty as possible. Flexible arrangements are in place for school staff to ensure effective minimum supervision and the further ongoing development of online educational material for students not at schools.
This is obscene. Meanwhile, the federal government will deliver $1.8billion in capital funding to private schools over the next decade – public schools get nothing 👇🏻 smh.com.au/education/an-a…
At a state level, the Berijiklian Government gifted private schools $500 million as an election promise.
While public school enrolments continue to grow, so too does the state and federal government’s obscene commitment to the dance studios and capital portfolios of private schools.