by JdN contributing writer and patriot
Why did teachers – led by Marxist unions that continue to demand that public schools shut their doors – receive full pay while sitting home during the pandemic?
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Yeah, the same teachers who tell your impressionable children to HATE you and your ancestors. Those traitors.
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Because Boris Johnson is weak and will continue to “take the knee” for the mob if he feels he can stay in power.
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While you and I were forced to pinch pennies, do menial jobs to pay our bills and turn down our heat, public school teachers in Britain and America, were able to sit at home and twiddle their thumbs, and get PAID for it.
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You read that right.
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Teachers in Britain and America, the vast majority of whom REFUSED to work during the lockdown, received their FULL salaries between the months of March and September.
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And we aren’t talking about a few hundred a month.
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Salaries in many Democrat run constituencies in the United States can run as high as $5-7,000 a month!
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So, have teachers, who should be counting their blessings and keeping a bloody low profile, been grateful for OUR generosity?
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No, of course not.
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In fact, while you and I have been suffering financially, demonic Marxist teachers unions have been busy lobbying elected politicians in Britain and America for another massive pay increase.
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And boy has it ever paid off!
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In the UK it has just been announced that weak-willed Boris Johnson and his chai-wallah puppet, Rishi Sunak – who Lefty teachers and their union bosses utterly LOATHE – handed pay rises to more than 900,000 public sector workers across seven different workforces today – this includes police, teachers and prison guards.
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Public school teachers were in fact awarded the biggest pay rise of ’em all for just how dangerous and hard their job is (sarcasm) – a whopping 3.1 per cent – meaning a school worker on £30,599 will receive nearly an extra £1,000 a year.
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All, while the rest of us have to slash our food budgets, take our cars off the road to save on insurance and gas/petrol, and generally go without….
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Because teachers have successfully conned the masses into believing they’re not only underpaid but also victims of systemic oppression – when they are anything BUT – our government officials continue to pander to them.
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Thankfully the reaction to the pay rise hasn’t been as well received as Boris had hoped.
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The ungrateful Left – the beneficiaries of the increased salary – are disappointed in ONLY receiving a 3.1 % increase and now demanding MORE money, and angry parents – many of whom are supporters of the Tory Party (Conservatives – similar to the US Republican Party) – have rightfully turned on the nation’s embattled leader.
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Rupert Murdoch’s “Sun” newspaper had this to say on the matter.
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ANGRY parents have said teachers should only get public sector pay rises if they turned up to school during the coronavirus pandemic with one concerned parent writing on Twitter: “Don’t agree about the teachers!
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“I’ve had to home-school my children for four months while I continue to work! They get so much time off and now a pay rise. Unbelievable!!”
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Some teachers across the UK continued to teach kids online during lockdown and many have continued to look after key workers’ kids at school.
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But the Campaign for Real Education suggested those who had refused to go back in ‘didn’t deserve a pay rise’. (ANY PAY)
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The think tank’s chairman, Chris McGovern, told MailOnline: “The government should have held back and rewarded teachers who have turned up to the classroom and worked hard.
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“Rewarding teachers who acted in their own interest sets a bad precedent for the future.”
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‘MASSIVE CATCH UP’
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Boris Johnson promised parents last month there will be a “massive catch-up operation” to try to minimise the impact of the lockdown on children’s education.
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Many have voiced growing evidence that some kids in the ‘Covid Generation’ who are falling behind in their studies may not be able to bounce back.
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Ministers reasoned that there is no prospect of children making up for lost schooling over the summer, and instead proposed a catch-up programme to be extended into next term, and possibly beyond.
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A study by UCL’s Institute of Education this week found that 2 million children have done less than an hour a day of schoolwork during lockdown.
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And nationally, kids are spending on average just 2.5 hours a day working.
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Today’s inflation-busting pay rises will take the average salary for a full-time public sector worker to £31,844 – £2,000 more than their private sector counterparts.
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Doctors and dentists will get a 2.8 per cent uplift and police officers will see their pay boosted by 2.5 per cent.
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A constable earning £32,025 will take home £800 more a year.
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The Armed Forces get a 2 per cent rise under the new pay deal, prison officers will receive a 2.5 per cent rise.
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Judges and senior civil servants will see a 2 per cent increase.
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It is the third above-inflation pay rise for the majority of public sector workers following seven years of austerity that saw salary increases capped at 1 per cent.
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More than a million NHS workers have already been given a pay rise of about 3 per cent this year under their three-year Agenda for Change pay deal that ends next April.
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Nurses will get an average 4.4 per cent pay rise this year under that deal.
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The rise for police and teachers starts in September because these professions run on different pay schedules.
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Why has the government announced these pay rises?
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The announcement came after Chancellor Rishi Sunak accepted the recommendations of all the independent pay review bodies.
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Each year, independent pay review bodies recommend pay rises for sectors.
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Mr Sunak said the boost to wages reflects the enormous effort made by those in the public sector in responding to the unprecedented challenges for the country during the Covid-19 outbreak.
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The Treasury said the money will come from existing departmental budgets.
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Announcing the pay rises last night, Mr Sunak said: “These past months have underlined what we always knew – that our public sector workers make a vital contribution to our country and that we can rely on them when we need them.
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It’s right therefore that we follow the recommendations of the independent pay bodies with this set of real-terms pay rises.”
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However, the government was criticised by national trade union TUC for not making up a “decade of real-terms pay cuts” for frontline workers.
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The Conservatives previously enforced a 1 per cent pay rise cap on public sector workers, but this was scrapped after seven years by then-party leader Theresa May in 2017.
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TUC general secretary, Frances O’Grady, also called for social care workers to join the ranks of those being offered a pay rise.
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She said: “These rises are welcome, but there’s still a long way to go to restore pay after a decade of real terms cuts.
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“Many public sector workers, like job centre staff and local government workers, aren’t getting these rises. They deserve a decent pay settlement too.
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“And the Government should urgently announce a pay rise for social care workers, who put their lives on the line to care for others during this pandemic.”
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