Friday, May 26, 2006

INTO uses the children they teach

The other day my children came home from school with a flyer from the INTO. It's easy to overreact to these sorts of things, but it's not right for the teachers' union to use the children they teach as a means for airing their grievances. I think the school should have said 'no'.

Anyway, the teachers want smaller classes. The flyer is a form letter that we're supposed to forward to the Minister for Education. "We support the INTO campaign for smaller classes – we do not want ourchildrenn crowded out!" For what it's worth, my daughter doesn't want her class of 30 to be reduced. She likes her classmates.