Teachers saint or sinners

This week we have the teachers unions meeting, but have the general public any respect for them today. They are in many cases overpaid, they have more holidays than any other worker or profession. Six week periods then at least a  minimum one week off. Once they were held in high esteem but today in many cases they are a collection of an uncouth rabble. A few months ago a report stated that there were between 10-15,000  teachers that were not up to the job. If this report was true and accurate how did these teachers make it through university and teacher training college? But the really sad part and perhaps criminal, is that a growing number of teachers are being paid  to resign and waive the right to challenge their departure at an employment tribunal after a reference agreed with their head teacher. Again isn't this a criminal act with head teachers virtually lying? Then we have the compensation to teachers for accidents ranging from £3,500 to in one case £158,000 paid to a teacher who slipped on a muddy floor. These sums make the pay out to military personnel who have lost limbs in combat a complete mockery. Compensation of £12.6 million has been paid out to members of the NASUWT last year, a rise of 19.7% on the total value of settlements in 2010. Of this £10.8 million was paid out to 807 teachers in so called compensation agreements under which a teacher facing dismissal agrees to resign usually with an agreed reference from the head teacher and compensation. This amounts to an average of almost £13,500. Some teachers have been paid because a whiteboard fell on her head she received £11,000 in any other profession or job the person would have rubbed their head and got on with it. A boiling kettle balanced on top of a microwave on top of a filing cabinet was knocked over and the teacher in the staff room sitting  on a chair was awarded £7,000 How long had this set up been going on? and didn't any of these so called educated teachers know that it was unsafe and possible dangerous, but no because basically teachers are thick.They are cosseted in their own little world and don't know what its like in the big wide world that the rest of us live and work in.