Bottom of the class

i’M SOrrY, but i think it’s disgusting that teachers are going on strike. Clearly they feel no duty towards a generation of children who have already had their chance of a decent education torpedoed by lockdown.

Teaching is meant to be a vocation. No one goes into it to get rich, and teachers already have a generous pension, holidays most can only dream of — and last year got a pay rise of more than five per cent, with the Government committing to raising starting salaries to £30,000 by 2024.

The same, i’m afraid, goes for the university lecturers, who have an even cushier existence, only they get to strike at the expense of students saddling themselves with thousands of pounds of debt for the privilege. Disgraceful.