BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Sorry, 'the government shouldn't comply to the requests of the public sector'? The public sector is employed by the government - who else is there to comply?
Well, a democratic government should comply to the will of the people. Complying to the will of the big business or, even worse, to a will of the public unions, is corruption.
BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:What the teachers are asking for is a 6.11% increase, to bring them into parity with the rest of the public sector, and 6.11% isn't going to wreck the Croatian economy.
6.11% is a compromise proposed by Andrej Plenković, the prime minister of Croatia. The leader of the protesters, Branimir Mihalinec, asks for 11% increase.
BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Teacher B lets the students read comic books while he naps at his desk.
If somebody is unwilling to work, he should probably be fired.
BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:They should both be paid the same?
My point is that it's, in many cases, hard to figure out how well a teacher works. If a teacher has a student who does well on competitions, that doesn't actually mean the teacher is a good teacher. And pretending that it does has bad consequences. When I was in high-school, a few teachers were sending me to competitions without giving me any special instructions for that competition. You are simply stuck between a rock and a hard place in that situation: if you refuse to go onto that competition, the teacher may refuse to give you good marks. If you go onto that competition, and you don't spend nights studying for those competitions, you will embarrass yourself there. And, if you do study nights for that competition and you succeed at it, your teacher, who didn't help you much, will get a pay raise.
