http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/11/industrial-action-does-teachers-no-favours/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/11/industrial-action-does-teachers-no-favours/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:21:56 +0000 Susan Elkin http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28324 So teachers intend to strike later this term. Except that it won’t be a strike as such. They are just planning to refuse to attend meetings, fill in forms, invigilate, cover for absent colleagues or lead extra-curricular activity because, they say, they don’t want to disrupt children’s education – which is, of course a contradiction in terms. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/11/industrial-action-does-teachers-no-favours/feed/ 33