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[Puffin]

I wanted to tell you about one thing. Icelandic teachers.
In Iceland, we have 4 school-levels. Kindergarden (around 2-6 years old), chilren-school (6-16), college (16-20) and university (20 +).

For the past two months, the children-school teachers have been on a strike. Two months. At first, I thought it was reasonable. They don't have high salaries. But then I realized, that the demands they make are just too high.

Children-school teachers have around 20 students each. In my school (I go to college), each teacher has up to 400 students. And children-school teachers want the SAME SALARIES as the college teachers!! How stupid is that??

OK, they do deserve good salaries. But let's take two teachers as an example.


Examples:

My sister's teacher (my sister is 9) has 19 students. The teacher is at work from 9-14, then some work at home. Maybe 2-3 hours at home.

Then let's take my english teacher. He works from 8-15:30, and then in the evening school from 17-22. Five days a week. And he's an average teacher, the same goes for most of the teachers. My english teacher has around 400 students, I guess.

So, is it fair that my sister's teacher gets the SAME MONTLY SALARIES as my teacher? I don't think so.

Yesterday, the goverment put law on the strike, so the teachers aren't allowed to strike anymore. About time, in my opinion. When sailors striked few years, it took the goverment a WEEK to put an end of it, withouth their salaries to get any higher.
But the teacers are f**king idiots. They are ALL going to skip work next week!! And most people don't know that, I heard it from my aunt who is a teacher (yup, there are teachers in the family ). She didn't want my sister to go to school and find nothing there.


And then yesterday, I heard another thing that blew my mind.
Kindergarden teachers now want the same salaries as children-school teachers, WHO WANT THE SAME SALARIES AS COLLEGE TEACHERS!!!!!! How fucked up is that?!?
OK, kindergarden teachers have responsibility, but all they do is sing songs and go out to play all day long!!!!! from 8-16!!
How can they expect the same salaries as college teachers?!?!? JESUS CHRIST!!!!



Sorry if this doesn't make much sense, but I'm just so angry!!!!