Cricket Tragic of Bathurst, Reader's Comment 22 of 22, SOS sent to young teacher

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Cricket Tragic of Bathurst, Reader's Comment 22 of 22, SOS sent to young teachers across NSW, Kate Sikora, The Daily Telegraph, 8 December 2011: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/sos-sent-to-young-teachers-across-nsw/story-e6freuzi-1226216698710 Historical link preserved from the original page.

New South Wales: 37-year-experienced male teacher has seen his real salary dropping rapidly.

Teachers do four (or more) years of university study (with a massive HECS debt) and then put up with the sorts of poor conditions no other professional puts up with from abusive parents and students and a pay structure that is limited by this government to 2.5%.

Over my 37 years of teaching, I have seen the real rates of teacher salary dropping rapidly.

At one point, an experienced teacher's salary was the equivalent of a parliamentary backbencher's pay.

It's less than half that now.

I feel guilty when young teachers tell me that I inspired them to become a teacher.

I apologise to them.