This wasn't meant to be another teacher bashing thread, I was a teacher myself but in the private sector. What I was getting at was the disparity amongst the pay rises awarded to the different professions, or not at all, as some of you have rightly pointed out.
When there is a big enquiry into all of this, when in 10 years time the country is still picking up the financial cost, when in 10 years time we will know which sectors were the most productive, then that would be the time for pay rises and rewards. I just can't understand why teachers are to receive more than the nurses, midwives, doctors, police etc. mentioned above, when since March they haven't had to set foot outside and subject themselves to any dangers at all. Maybe the high pay rise should have been just for those teachers who actually went into school to look after the children of key workers. They were really the ones who really kept the country running, more so than the others.
The backlash will be huge.