Industrial action by teaching unions in response to the coalition government’s education reforms are polarising teachers’ views on their unions’ activities, according to a report.
Some teachers are furious at the national developments, which has led them to “blow my whistle and fly my flag” for the first time in protest at changes, and feel grateful that union leaders are “working hard to protect me against the work Gove is doing to destroy schools in England”.
However, others feel embarrassed by the work-to-rule and “intransigence” of their unions.
The study, by LKMco, a Cambridge education “think-and-action tank”, said views on unions had changed over the last year.
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