Comments by "80s Music" (@eightiesmusic1984) on "Workers explain how Tories aren't telling truth about strikes" video.

Teaching assistants perform valuable work but according to research there is no evidence that they add anything to attainment outcomes. Clearly there is more to the role than contribution to attainment but it does call into question the cost benefit of the job. Nearly 8 million adults are functionally illiterate in the UK, which should be a source of national shame. Predictably, it is not. Something is clearly not working in the primary sector, which undermines their claims. The horse has bolted on pay- teachers should have taken action over a decade ago but because there is little solidarity in education, they did not. The hours are punishing in teaching but the educational outcomes deserve to be questioned, especially in primary.
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Precisely, that has been true for decades, at least since 1979 and probably for most of the last 100 years. There is something wrong with the psyche of most Britons. They like to have their cake and eat it but you cannot have Scandinavian levels of public service with American levels of taxation. Most voters are not very bright either, another major problem. They do not join up the dots. It will never change here.
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@Ma55ey The quality of teaching in the UK is variable to put it kindly. It is often mediocre at best, with many teachers who are not specialists in the subject they are delivering. The quality of delivery during lock down was very inconsistent as well- the materials on the government website that teachers were encouraged to use were not particularly good. Remote teaching is not easy but the idea that every school was delivering high quality lessons during lock down, which I have seen suggested by some, does not stack up. It is also doubtful that all students signed in to lessons or stayed present even if they did, which would adversely affect the quality of learning. I doubt many did homework set either, which will have undermined efforts to consolidate or extend learning. Education is in a mess and the calibre of the workforce should be of serious concern to government but it won't be.
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There is little solidarity in the UK- it is too late. An unpalatable truth but the dye is cast after forty four years of neoliberal destruction and the capitulation of the so called party of the workers to Thatcherism ( except the Corbyn interregnum, which was brutally crushed to preserve neoliberalism). The voters are also to blame for their apathy over decades and voting against their own self interest ( millions not voting too) under FPTP for all that time.
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