I am not in favour of striking, I think that there are better ways of doing it. Staff should stop doing all the extra work, all the PPW (pointless paper work), ignoring all the department surveys or filling them in incorrectly, not paying the VIT (Victorian Institute of Teaching) black mail etc. Of course, it won't happen.
Speaking of the VIT, they are the biggest leeches in teaching fraternity, the blood-suckers of bureaucracy. They do nothing useful for teachers. I know of no teacher that is happy with them. Some of their useless ideas are pathetic. They want CRTs (relief teachers) to participate in professional development. They are usually retired teachers and schools are desperate to get them to fill in when needed. There aren't wandering herds of CRTs just desperate to become employed, it's the other way around. If they aren't available then the work load on teachers goes up, which has happened with some small country schools without a pool of CRTs.
Teachers used to be registered by the education department. The VIT came about as the government decided to put the costs onto teachers. Unfortunately, the useless teachers' union agreed. This means that the union won't do anything about the VIT. Another reason why teaching now sucks. It was Mary Delahuntly who started the VIT and, boy, was she a useless flash in the pan.
They've increased the work load of first year out teachers with all the paper work - the VIT calls it support. What it means is they are busy collecting work off other teachers and passing it off as their own. I'm proud to say I have supported this! Why should they have to suffer? They also expect other staff to increase their work load above what they normally do just to fill in VIT's useless paper work. That's the type of work that should be black banned until we are properly rewarded.
Thanks for the support Catherine, but the government (and especially Bronwyn Pike) just doesn't care.
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