1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Teachers, maybe maybe not accept their payoffers, maybe maybe not 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: go and strike yet again. You know what, I can't 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 1: help but worry about these new recruits. Now we're busy 4 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: celebrating them this week, right, Enrollments to become teachers gone 5 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: up markedly, big big increases. This seems, on the surface anyway, 6 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: to be in part a solution to a long term problem, 7 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,639 Speaker 1: i e. Our permanent shortage in a profession that's lost 8 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: its luster. I'm not against migration to solve issues, but 9 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: there is a balance to be Striker would have thought, 10 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: and you'd like to think that the profession is actually 11 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: staffed by people who like what they do, and not 12 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 1: a pile of recent arrivals whose main criteria for being 13 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: in a New Zealand classroom was to be in the country, 14 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: not the job itself. So lots of new recruits, good good, 15 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: good good. But once out the other side, what awaits them? 16 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: And does it look like the ongoing industrial mess that 17 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: pervades our work landscape at the moment? I mean, do 18 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,639 Speaker 1: these recruits know what they will get paid, what their 19 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: conditions are? Do they know what actually teaching in a 20 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: New Zealand classroom in twenty twenty five entails and looks 21 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: like because somewhere between the enthusiasm of enrollment and the 22 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:05,400 Speaker 1: jaded misery of experience a decade on something dramatically goes wrong. 23 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: The money seems decent to me, not spectacular, but decent, 24 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,680 Speaker 1: the same way it seems decent now for nurses and doctors. 25 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 1: It seems to me we've got to a point where 26 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: no small amount of energy, money, money and change has 27 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: been put into education. In between that and the pay, 28 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 1: it's not a bad deal. Yes, it's challenging, of course. 29 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: It has given kids in their issues. Yes you would 30 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: like more specialist teachers or non contact time or whatever, 31 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: but negotiations are quid pro quote. The rises we have 32 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: seen in recent years, the change currently being implemented to 33 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,199 Speaker 1: turbocharged performance by way of results, seems to be setting 34 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: us up for a decent sort of system producing a 35 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 1: decent sort of outcome. Is that the unions that are 36 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: wrecking this, I mean, are they really the impediment to 37 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: most teachers just want to get on with it. We 38 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: seem at a place where the public support is most 39 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: certainly not what it was for the teacher's plight, and 40 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: might just be tipping against them. For more from the 41 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks that be 42 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: from six am weekdays. Follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.