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To the editor:
With the pace of life never slowing, I have been negligent in keeping my Rappahannock readers informed of my teaching year in the United Kingdom.
The holiday season came and passed with barely a minute to spare. Then it was January and back to work with a new department head and many curriculum changes.
New courses are being introduced into the British school system and it has required some late night preparations on my part. These changes were held in limbo for 13 months as the teachers of England struggled for a pay increase.
Now, British headlines read “teachers have settled the 13 month dispute.” But still many teachers, including myself, wonder exactly what has been settled. After 13 months of struggling for last year’s pay increase the teachers have accepted a 6.9 percent increase to salary.
But this settlement is difficult to explain. British teachers are paid on a national scale unlike our local scales, and nearly all British teachers belong to one of the six national teacher unions.
Even though five of the six unions have accepted the proposed increase, the largest union, the National Union of Teachers, NUT, has voted against the settlement and vowed to continue their working to the contract.
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