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I am surprised about Ms Mundlak's letter as once working as a teacher she would know about the professionalism that the vast majority of the teachers have the work they do in their community educating children. Ms Mundlak must be aware of the work teachers do and in our society and their right join any professional teaching organisation. To dismiss teachers who were taking strike action to protect their rights regarding a pension scheme they have signed up to and contributed to is misguided and naïve. She should know as a past teacher w the terms and conditions that striking teachers signed up for and by taking a legal ballot teachers are requested by their professional association to take strike action. Ms Mundak would have been given the right to contribute to the teacher’s pension scheme if she was employed by an education authority and it looks rather contradictory for her to criticise her teaching colleagues considering she is not required to teach in a London school at 65. It looks as in leaving the teaching profession Ms Mundak has forgotten the continued dedication teachers have to the education profession and their civil right to protest against a social injustice.

Colin