Brians usual sour and ill informed opinions again. No change there

Good responses seeformiles and sandy.Jollyrog should come round to yours or even mine to see what a teachers life is really like. My partners customer facing time might end officially at 3.30pm but there are after school meetings, (also breakfast staff meetings at 8am) meetings with parents, parents evenings, and then there is as I said before, preparation and marking in the evenings and weekends. I can say from experience that it really does cut into family time and even time off. I assume that Jollyrog makes ignorant comments because he/;she is simply ignorant of what teachers do and what their lives are like as exemplified by the comment about INSET days. And gets their information from the Daily Mail. It really is an extremely intellectually and practically demanding profession for what is really relatively low pay in comparison and I will defend that profession to the hilt as I really respect what teachers do and feel they are hard done by and being used as scapegoats, like most other local authority workers. The hard fact is that delayed pensions will mean that people won't be in work longer ; they are more likely to have a long gap between ending work through ill health or being pushed out due to ageism, and have to muddle along on benefits and before getting their pensions. That is what the reality is going to be