Kin, Reader's Comment, 25 March 2011: Pay-rises and productivity: getting the be

snapshot 20140111 · 158 words · 1 min read · Wayback

Uses your browser’s built-in speech (en-AU when available).

This page contains cleaned historical text recovered from the former Bad Apple Bullies website. Character encoding, punctuation, headings, lists and obvious extraction errors may have been repaired for readability. The underlying claims and opinions remain those of the original author and have not been independently reverified. Listen uses on-device text-to-speech — no audio files are stored.

Kin, Reader's Comment, 25 March 2011: Pay-rises and productivity: getting the best out of teachers, Winston Smith, Unleashed, ABC, 18 March 2011: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/45264.html Historical link preserved from the original page.

I believe that experienced teachers are treated poorly in the salary stakes.

We both worked very hard as teachers.

Some classrooms were either too cold or very hot and had poor facilities.

Nothing has changed in most schools.

I know I worked hard to put my hand out each fortnight for my wage.

I recall cleaning school toilets and the bush classrooms.

But I loved my job.

Today's teaching conditions are still hard work - getting kids to learn and respect authority.

We would not like to "babysit" some of the terrors that parents fail to train at home.

My starting salary was certainly less than some of my in-laws who were truckies, carpeneters and brickies.

But that was in the 60's.

I believe that good, experienced teachers are treated poorly in the salary stakes.