At the end of an article about changes to teachers' pensions:
Teachers at the conference also challenged the idea of having to work beyond the age of 65.
"Can you imagine being a reception teacher and trying to get on and off those little chairs at 68? I think not," said history teacher, Alice Robinson.
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We could start paying their pensions when they get to 68/9/70 and they don't have to work or be paid...
We're already paying their sodding pensions, whether the individual pension is in payment or not.
I listened in horror the other day to a pair of teachers talking about their pensions and was stunned by their appalling stupidity and ignorance on the subject. (Radio 4 - You and Yours).
The younger teacher, age 28, was incandescent about having to increase her contribution from £66 p.m. to £101 "to fund the generous retirement pensions of those already retired or reaching retirement soon". She was so angry, she said, she's thinking seriously about leaving the teaching profession "because of the injustice".
So a 28-year old full time teacher objects to paying £1200 gross a year out of her £30,000+ salary despite the index-linked, final-salary-linked benefits she's got in her contract? Benefits which - in principle will support her for 30+ years after a 40-something year working life?
No clue about the cost to the rest of us ("employer" contributions and taxpayer funding of the scheme shortfall). No mention of life expectancy (she'll probably make 100, unless of course she's too stupid to remember to breathe, which seems a distinct possibility).
I very much hope she does leave teaching; cheaper for the rest of us and sooner or later she'll get to wake up in the real world.
AC1, I do not understand.
FT, if only you were Pensions Minister in real life, and not just in the Bloggers Cabinet. If you made a speech like that I'd have to stay out of the public eye for a week until I stopped laughing.
"Teachers at the conference also challenged the idea of having to work beyond the age of 65"
They obviously weren't in the private sector, then.
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