What do students think of teacher strikes? – Tahnee Gangi Reddy Newstead wood school

Teachers striking are not required to send any materials or set any online work. Teachers who are not striking set online lessons, where they cover normal lesson content. Since these strikes are spaced out they don’t impact a students that heavily. Students can use strike days to use indepentent learning resources, but how useful is this really. For some people, like Ileesha De Silva, it feels like a “De ja vu of lockdown.” Lockdown was very hard for students, in 2020 – for a lot of students – there weren’t even live lessons, and students didn’t feel obligated to do all the work. Ileessh also says “I think, while it won’t impact our learning that much, since that is not the purpose of the strikes, it could make us miss certain lesson and iif it become a regular thing, more students will feel some impacts”

The general consensus amongst students is that teacher strikes won’t affect learning that much if they only occur in moderation, but if they start to occur more often it could have a higher impact. However most students also think that if the government increases the salary of teachers, this could solve the problem and more importantly, that for the work they are doing, their teachers deserve a higher pay.