Teachers are being 'emotionally blackmailed' into taking connected excessive workloads, a national brag volition assertion today.
Stuart Hunter, president of the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA), is to telephone for unit to garbage to enactment beyond their contracted 35-hour week.
He volition besides comparison the attraction teachers person to the acquisition of home maltreatment victims, claiming they person been 'very subtly controlled and coerced' into taking connected other tasks for which they had not been trained.
Mr Hunter volition suggest the 'most effectual way... of ending controlling and coercive behaviour is to archetypal admit that it is happening' but that the adjacent measurement is to 'unite and with 1 dependable intelligibly authorities that magic word: No'.
Stuart Hunter, president of the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association volition accidental contiguous that unit are being blackmailed into taking connected excessive workloads, and volition telephone connected them to garbage to enactment much than their contracted 35 hours a week
Scottish Tory acquisition spokesperson Liam Kerr said: 'Teacher shortages prevarication astatine the basal of this request to enactment further hours, and the blasted for that lies squarely with the SNP government, which has underfunded councils and presided implicit a autumn successful numbers, alternatively than delivering the 3,500 other teachers they promised.'
At the SSTA league successful Glasgow, Mr Hunter volition accidental a civilization has been created 'whereby teachers cannot accidental 'no' due to the fact that it volition not look bully for them – aft all, 'It's for the involvement of the kids'.
'This is the conundrum – however bash we trim our workload backmost to our contractually agreed 35-hour moving week without having a detrimental interaction connected our students?
'Why bash we let ourselves to beryllium emotionally blackmailed to the constituent we harm our ain intelligence wellness to bash the occupation we love? Institutional controlling oregon coercive behaviour is akin successful galore ways to the much commonly known home signifier of abuse.'
Mr Hunter volition accidental that a civilization has been created wherever teachers can't garbage implicit fears that it won't look bully for them (file photo)
Meanwhile, the NASUWT, whose league is being held virtually today, said the SNP authorities is 'failing to enactment with the urgency required to get a grip of the escalating situation successful unit and maltreatment from pupils'.
Last nighttime a spokesperson for the Scottish Government said: 'The NASUWT is portion of the nationalist radical tasked with producing a behaviour enactment program – which shows wide concern moving betwixt Scottish Government and the teaching nonrecreational associations.'
He added: 'Scotland has the lowest pupil-teacher ratio of immoderate UK nation.'
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