resentment voice on the levels of essential reforms and curriculum
A movement increasingly popular teachers threatened "civil disobedience" on Saturday to protest against education reforms.
Teachers National Union of Teachers annual conference in Liverpool, said
Observer
his profession had reached a turning point in her relationship with Michael Gove, Secretary Education and calls for drastic measures were widespread. Last week, the Association of Teachers overwhelmingly passed a motion of confidence in Gove, in the first movement of this kind against a Minister of Education in its history. NUT members will vote on a similar motion on Sunday. Teachers described as a sample Gove "absolute failure to improve education teachers or treatment, parents and students with respect."
claim that nearly three years since the coalition government in power, have been subjected to unprecedented levels of criticism and repeatedly compromised. Teachers also say that Gove is trying to change everything about his work, from the testing program and measures League table, wage structures and their pensions and how to judge inspectors. There is a fierce resentment, as staff changes and overtime, ministers described as "enemies of promise".
"We've had enough," said Alison Palmer, a teacher of the primary school in Camden, north London. "We are committed to people trying to do the best we can for children and Gove says we are just garbage. Must be a limit to what teachers endure. "
Stephen Pickles, a teacher of primary school Bradford, said he had a feeling "increasingly among teachers that they would be unhappy if their children were in their classrooms Because of what teachers should teach and test must be applied. "
Pickles, who was a teacher for 34 years, said he had never seen the profession is "enough" and ready to do something. "It seems that things come to a head," he said.
- Alasdair Smith, professor of history at a secondary school in Islington, north London, said he and his colleagues were ready for "civil disobedience". So strongly disapproves of draft program of the new story published by the Ministry of Education intends to refuse to teach. "I'm just not teach a program that lets children less aware of their world and put their history," he said. "I think there is a sense growing why we do this and we have to agree that civil disobedience little. "He said he was opposed to the list of facts that said the new national program requires children to memorize. Students need to a "concept of the tests and how to interpret the story, and I will continue to teach this independence," he said.
hundreds of thousands of teachers began to organize a series of strikes in June The nut and the NASUWT teaching union, which all members amounted to more than 400,000 people, said they would begin an ongoing strikes in northwest England. During the conference, teachers are lining up to fill the cartels beginning: "My message to Michael Gove ..." The union is to save some teachers with their posters and sent to the Office Gove.
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