Teachers’ dispute
Sir, —Mr Gerald Minnee, of the State Services Commission, has been reported as saying that secondary teachers’ pay rates were too high, out of hand, and needed to be eased back. These statements are inflammatory during an award round and reinforce the opinion that the Government’s reforms are designed to cut costs, not to improve education. The P.P.T.A. is putting forward reasoned, logical and, above all, educational arguments, backed up by independent research, in these award negotiations. The commission continues to ignore these. If teaching is so easy, as Mr Minnee seems to suggest, that teachers deserve a pay cut, why are there not queues of people wanting to do it? Teachers colleges cannot fill their quotas now, even with the attraction of so-called “out of hand” pay rates. Mr Minnee should look closer to home to see “out of hand” pay rates. Perhaps he should also spend a few weeks in a classroom. He might learn something. — Yours, etc., M. MERRICK. April 5, 1989.
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