BBC Breakfast, as with the junior doctors strikes, is NOT shielding the Conservative Government from criticism, but allowing union reps free reign to attack.
Today’s threat of teacher strikes is headlining there but is nowhere on the BBC News websites.
BBC Scotland? School photos scandal.
A significant factor for the NASUWT is this:
Class sizes, pupil teacher ratios, have gotten worse not better over the last decade.
Strangely, neither the NASUWT nor the Government state the actual pupil/teacher ratio. Here they are, helpfully from gov.uk, across the 4 nations:
Pupil to teacher ratios in maintained schools were lowest in Scotland (13.2) and similar in Northern Ireland (17.4), England (18.0) and Wales (18.4):
These are big differences in the load faced by Scottish teachers compared with those elsewhere in the UK.
English teachers, on average, are responsible for a 36.4% higher pupil workload, every day, than teachers in Scotland.
Welsh teachers, on average, are responsible for a 39.4% higher pupil workload, every day, than teachers in Scotland. Might BBC Scotland ask Anas Sarwar’s education spokesperson about this? No, I don’t care who that currently is.
Talking-up Scotland / Facts on NHS, Crime, ferries and everything else you can think of 
The low pupil teacher ratio in Scotland is the UNION DIVIDEND. That’s why we are BETTER TOGETHER.
The writer of the above paragraph has been sedated and an ambulance has been called.
Alasdair Macdonald
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eh? Like most teachers in the Scottish central belt I have classes of at least 30. The Scottish figure is skewed. First of all we have many, many more remote schools with small numbers of students in multi-level classes. Secondly, I think in Scotland there are many more teachers of things like Guidance, Support for Learning or Nurture who usually don’t have a class teaching commitment except for maybe PSE.
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Classes of 30? Yes, me too back in the 80s but that means too many promoted staff doing too little teaching in your school. The average ratio is all government can affect.
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Also, that’s the average for all schools. The ratio in primaries around 20:1
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BBC ARE YET AGAIN CORRUPT TO THE CORE WHEN BEING HONESTY UP FRONT AWITH VIEWERS THAT PAY THEIR WAGES
SACK THEM ALL
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