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Mon 11 Nov 2009Teachers are being vilified, says ASTI
TEACHERS ARE being “vilified” and their terms and conditions of employment have never before been under such attack, the ASTI has said at its centenary education conference in Dublin.
ASTI general secretary John White told the meeting on Saturday that teachers were being vilified by “utterly incorrect statements about teachers’ sick-leave, hours of work, duties and responsibilities”. These statements were being “repeated ad nauseam by the same right-wing economists and commentators who were the cheerleaders for the operation of the raw market”.
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