Meoir Shee Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 Just a reminder that a highly active member in this thread has previously suggested a halving of direct teacher cost per pupil, presumably by halving teacher pay, “greedy feckers”. Or perhaps doubling class sizes. This same poster strongly criticised a local school for sending out warnings re: ice. Tragically, an employee at a nearby school suffered a fatal accident after a fall on ice at around the same time. But it is teachers who “make themselves look very stupid”. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomadic Raptor Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 I thought it had been sorted considering they cancelled the last strike day previously. This is getting very tedious now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunkenMonkey Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 1 hour ago, Nomadic Raptor said: I thought it had been sorted considering they cancelled the last strike day previously. This is getting very tedious now I believe it was called off by the teachers as a good faith gesture to get the government back to the negotiating table. Next week's strikes remained in place to encourage a better offer, which hasn't happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BriT Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 14 hours ago, Meoir Shee said: Just a reminder that a highly active member in this thread has previously suggested a halving of direct teacher cost per pupil, presumably by halving teacher pay, “greedy feckers”. Or perhaps doubling class sizes. Just one highly active teacher despising lunatic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeCurious Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Give it a decade or less and teaching won't even be a job in the normal sense. Especailly past the age of 11. Apart form the fact that you'll need someone to supervise for legal reasons most knowledge based education will easily be handled by AI. Schools will be a combination of daycare (so both parents can work) and social integration (interacting with people in real time face to face). With maybe a bit of sports thrown in as long as everyone gets a medal after. So a classs of 50 or 100 would be no problem because every student will have a custom learning interface and 1 to 1 tuition in effect. Probably a couple of hubs for the non-digital arts, sports and some STEM. To be honest even most of STEM could be digital as even top pharma etc. are relying more and more on digital simulations to discover new drugs and processes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Brennan Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 (edited) The strikes next week have been called off. Apparently talks are at an ‘extremely delicate stage’. Edited February 9, 2023 by Willy Brennan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BriT Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 16 minutes ago, Willy Brennan said: The strikes next week have been called off. Apparently talks are at an ‘extremely delicate stage’. Hopefully they don’t get more money as we’d have to put up with at least 10 more pages of teacher rage if they actually get what they want. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asthehills Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 5 minutes ago, BriT said: Hopefully they don’t get more money as we’d have to put up with at least 10 more pages of teacher rage if they actually get what they want. They don’t need more money. They are already the best paid in Britain when compared to cost of living, and will get another bump if the UK teachers get one as a result of their own action. If we have spare cash for wages, it should be sent to healthcare who work in much worse conditions and for comparatively a much lower wage 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomadic Raptor Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 4 hours ago, Willy Brennan said: The strikes next week have been called off. Apparently talks are at an ‘extremely delicate stage’. What’s your source? As I’m sure a lot of parents would like to know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymbabe Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 12 hours ago, Willy Brennan said: The strikes next week have been called off. Apparently talks are at an ‘extremely delicate stage’. Where did you hear that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Brennan Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 (edited) 24 minutes ago, gymbabe said: Where did you hear that? Via an asset within the union. They emailed all the members yesterday evening. Edited February 10, 2023 by Willy Brennan 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxman1980 Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 On 2/8/2023 at 9:42 AM, CallMeCurious said: Give it a decade or less and teaching won't even be a job in the normal sense. Especailly past the age of 11. Apart form the fact that you'll need someone to supervise for legal reasons most knowledge based education will easily be handled by AI. Schools will be a combination of daycare (so both parents can work) and social integration (interacting with people in real time face to face). With maybe a bit of sports thrown in as long as everyone gets a medal after. So a classs of 50 or 100 would be no problem because every student will have a custom learning interface and 1 to 1 tuition in effect. Probably a couple of hubs for the non-digital arts, sports and some STEM. To be honest even most of STEM could be digital as even top pharma etc. are relying more and more on digital simulations to discover new drugs and processes. If AI gets to that point then most of us will be out of worker. Bankers could certainly be replaced by AI at that stage. Better get retraining in a trade where AI can't replace people so easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asthehills Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 On 1/31/2023 at 5:45 PM, Asthehills said: Any predictions for round three? Will they see sense and not rock the boat any further now it’s even more obvious than it always was that they won’t gets any more? I guess the bully boy leaders are also busy with actions across now? Was it deliberate that Geraldine didn’t really feature during the last semi strike? Good to see they have seen sense and backed down. I note none of their statements mention what the talks have been about. I did hear a rumour and it would appear it really is a massive climb down with a bit of spin on it to make it sound like they have achieved something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banker Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 Confirming strikes off https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/planned-teaching-strikes-called-off-says-crhs/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Brennan Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 1 hour ago, Asthehills said: I note none of their statements mention what the talks have been about. Most of the union’s members have no idea what the talks have been about or what (if anything) is being negotiated on their behalf! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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