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The school will be witholding the wages, and could well be using that money to pay cover staff/ LSA s / overtime to manage the timetable.
I've no probs with the teacher doing the reverse.
You can’t blame those that can afford to, making up the difference. Well you can, but it’s missing the bigger picture.
Divide and conquer
I hate the whole concept of tutoring. Middle class parents buying their kids a better mark.
Tutoring > moving house to be in catchment area of better school > sending kids to private school...until all schools are good, it's going to continue...
As a kid I never felt easy with the fact my folks sent my sister to tuition for maths. I never went and thought it a bit odd that my sister should get more help than me.
Now I realise it's because my folks could afford it, my sister needed help and the school system was shite.
I've worked as an English teacher in Germany tutoring 7-10 year olds in the basics of English because their parents were worried about their kids not passing the exams at aged 11 to get into the higher level of education.
The system is corrupt.
Education might be free, but it isn't fair.
It benefits those who have more at their disposal.
The more money at your disposal the more likely your kids will do well. You're more likely to have books at home if you're from a well to do/aspiring family. You're more likely to have after school help in subjects.
Life is rigged
I'm glad I don't have kids and don't have to make these moral judgements.
I would be crap at it...
I wonder if your kids maths teacher tutors the children from the school where your maths tutor comes from?
Life is rigged
Very much so, but education is only a part of it. IMO socialisation is a bigger part of it. We are a function of our environment. We have a set of values, aspirations and objectives modeled by our environment and experiences.
You can have a model school manned by elite teachers in a deprived area but you won't have more kids getting into Oxbridge, better results can be obtained by mixing up kids from different areas in schools hence the carte scolaire in France and school busing in the USA.
Then we have the parents. You know what to do if you want your kids to suceed, become a teacher, whatever your background and wherever you live. Junior went to Science Pau Paris and the Humbolt Berlin. In Science Po they do their utmost to recruit from diverse backgrounds and regions. Sure you have to score high in the entry competition but you have to offer more, in junior's case skicross and musical talent. Kids from les cités are alloted a number of places. The result is more diversity but two social groups are still over represented, rich kids and teachers' kids.
Oxbridge meanwhile is still dominated by the rich.
I am supporting the teachers they should be paid enough for one of the most important jobs and for having to deal with nightmare entitled parents.
but it isn’t fair.
And you've only just noticed?
Life isn't fair, never has been and never will be.
You just make the most of the hand you've been dealt and try not to makes things worse along the way.....
or and try to leave the world a slightly better place then when you found it (although probably not possible in terms of global warming).
regards the tutoring during a strike - i feel sorry for the kids having to do work on their day off!