You will have noticed that teachers at Crompton House School went on strike last Thursday. This action was ostensibly because they fear the proposal of the school to become an academy would: "Harm the school and education in Oldham." Brother Tony Harrison, scretary of Oldham NUT, said "We asked to meet the full governing body to make our case against the plans." Not, you will note, to discuss the plans. Oh no! We are agin 'em on principle (if indeed they had any and knew what they were.) He continued,"This is a perfectly reasonable request." Oh, really! I have worked for several organisations and companies over the years. Not once during that time have I ever been consulted on policy changes, board-room appointments or future business plans. What business is it of the teachers and the NUT how the school is governed, the future direction of the school or the decisions of the governors. They are, like I was, employees. If they don't like it they can always do what I was often told, that if you don't like it you can always take your labour elsewhere.
Listen to this piece of union drivel straight from the Lie-bour book of fun quotes: "The vast majority of teachers oppose becoming an academy which would give the Church Of England secondary more freedoms. Bullshit! " The big fear of the NUT and it's teachers is that they are well aware that come a changeover to academies many of the under-performing, under-qualified, unsuited to the job, ideologically brainwashed, so-called teachers will be found out, found wanting and will be out of a job. Look at the figures to see how good they are. Over a third of secondary pupils leave school unable to read and write sufficiently well to apply for jobs and to satisfy prospective employer's levels of education. Who is to blame? The Government? The Teacher Training Colleges? The Unions? The Teachers? All of them it would appear. The Government has made exams so ludicrously easy over the years that a gerbil could pass with honours. Teacher Training Colleges have been weighted down for years with ideological claptrap. Teachers qualify and pass on this tripe to new students who then go on to become teachers in their own right and the whole sordid cycle repeats itself endlessly. Unions need no explaining. It's all about maintaining your power base. Teachers? Well teachers are in the job for one of two reasons. A real desire to impart learning to new minds, or it's better than working. Unfortunately there are too many of the latter and the end results of their indifference can be seen wandering the streets of most towns. No jobs. No abilities. No qualifications. No life!
Can any of the principled oafs tell us what message going on strike gives to their pupils? Are they proud of the fact that after approx eleven years of education pupils leave school still unable to read and write. What chance do these disadvantaged souls have in the labour market. Successive Governments have been complicit in this state of afairs. An illiterate, innumerate, jobless population is easier to control. Just give them regular handouts it's as good as a tranquiliser.
Finally: Tony Harrison (again). "....becoming an academy will effectively privatise the school and concentrate power in the hands of just a few people." Aaah! There we have it P-O-W-E-R and none if it will be ours. Never mind if any unsuitable teachers lose their posts they can always get a job with Ofsted.
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