SIR,—Mr. Brand seems anxious to split the teaching profession into
a number of squabbling factions at a time when all teachers should be firmly united in an attempt to obtain a substantial increase in the basic scale. It is about time that teachers realised that like other workers they can only bring real pressure to hear on the authorities by being prepared to with- draw their labour. Mr. Brand says that he cares for children and therefore cannot strike. We all care for children, but a great number of teachers apparently do not care enough to be willing to take action— except to put on a `holier-than-thou' look. I doubt whether his GCE pupils, would suffer very much while he took strike action—after all he could •set them homework and perhaps have the time to catch up with all his marking.—Yours faithfully,
I Nightingale Road, Capron, ES H. R. WILLS
[We have received scores of letters on this sub ject: it is possible to print only a small selection, and some of these had to be shortened. We hope to print more next week.—Editor, Spectator.]
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