teachers striking

I can not feel sorry for teachers who strike because they are going to have to work a little longer and have a little less money than they thought they would have.

All public sector workers get very good treatment. Teachers can leave work at 3.30, firemen are paid to sleep all night and their employers give them a real good pension. But all I hear is "I'm going to have to work until I'm 68, please feel sorry for me". Teachers are meant to teach kids but all they do is act like them. If people are living longer on average then people will have to work a little longer, but the same percentage of their life will still be spent working.

I do not know know when I will get to stop working, it might be later than 68. My life is my own and nobody owes me anything so I am not going to complain. I will however complain about how the public sector is run. I would love it if the public sector was run by private companies, then no one would dare complain because there is no such thing as a complaint in the private sector. If I was to go to work and kick up a fuss and complain about anything,I would be told to even shut up or leave.

So, in conclusion, if teachers do not like the deal they are getting they should leave their schools and start teaching privately. How old would most teachers be when they retire with a better pension than they are on now if; they had to find their own students, find their own location, do all their own admin and (here is the big one) guarantee results. The truth is the teachers need they public sector structure far more than it needs them so I think they should just back down on this one.