Our Secretary of Education complained that teachers shouldn't strike on their students' time, just on "adult time". When I attended elhi, I dealt with several teachers' strikes, crossing picket lines, etc.
I don't know how our beloved administrator or any other teacher on IO thinks/feels about this, but I think that she's full of something that rhymes with it. I mean, pay decent teachers enough that they don't have to choose between teaching and something that pays better. Oh, and don't make them have to choose what their respective students can do because they have to buy supplies. Not every school/student can present Alien (the movie) as a fooking school play.
If she (the SoE) doesn't want teachers to strike, then she should pay public school teachers in less-affluent districts out of her own fooking pocket! Sell at least three of her personal yachts if needed!
Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine