IN your report on the effects of Tuesday's teacher strike, you quote an NUT spokesman as saying "The members have shown strong support for the strike. It was backed by many parents."
The first statement is, alas, somewhat different from the truth and the second perhaps wishful thinking.
Of a stated membership of 200,000, only 24.5 per cent bothered to cast a vote.
Of those that did, 90 per cent voted in favour of strike action.
Nevertheless, the huge majority who had not voted, or were against a strike, followed like sheep with the resulting disruption to children's education and disruption to parents.
Charles Nunn, Upton
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