There is a promise of the eventual creation of 4000 new teacher posts. Perhaps the most important question arising from the deal is how much has still to be revealed after it has been accepted. The document admits that there are sixteen issues still to be resolved and need further negotiating. Some are of extreme importance, particularly further details on the exact nature of the accreditation for the new Chartered Teacher. If we reject McCrone, it will mean industrial action, claim our leaders.
Scottish teachers face their public in their classes every day.
They do not need lectures from the press, politicians, and EIS negotiators, few of whom are now full-time classroom teachers. Teachers may have voted reluctantly for McCrone but we have to start the fight back to reclaim the EIS from the Blairites.