Teachers’ salaries
Sir,—l agree with Tony Steele, president of the PostPrimary Teachers Association, in his claim that the Government is negligent in not settling the secondary teachers’ pay claim (“The Press,” January 31). Secondary teachers have waited for over five years for a realistic pay offer. This lengthy wait has
precipitated a severe teacher shortage reflected in problems with recruitment and retention. Last week the teachers’ union (P.P.T.A.) and their employers’ agents (Education Services Committee) reached a satisfactory agreement on salaries. But now a Cabinet sub-committee' has turned it down on the basis of cost. This cost in monetary terms is small. In terms of quality education for the secondary school pupils of this country, it is negligible. I urge the Government to reconsider its shortsighted approach to teachers* salaries and instead to consider the future quality of education offered to our incumbent citizens. — Yours, etc., ROSS DOWLING. January 31, 1986.
Sir,—Stan L. Jelley (January 29) mentions that the Minister of Education will take into account the positions of other comparable groups, when deciding on the salary claims of secondary school teachers. Mr Jelley also says “it is scandalous that all secondary school teachers ... should be paid more than primary school teachers of the same levels of qualifications and service.” Is he advocating that secondary school salaries be reduced to those of primary schools? If relativities apply, which I think Mr Jelley is suggesting, then it is entirely reasonable that salaries of one group should go down to match up with ~. the‘other group; If there is a principle behind wage relativities, it must follow surely that 1 groups seeking relativities should, not only look arourid for some obscure comparison with a group making more, but sometimes make the comparison with a group making less. — Yours, etc. ALAN FALLOON. January 30, 1986.
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