The two main factors that teachers are leaving is the pay and the children’s right no to be punished.
Teachers salaries have not been dealt with by previous Governments, until today.
Why can’t we just give them a pay rise?
If 40 plus millions are given to children to prepare for school, why can’t teachers get something out of it?
Secondly, children are just hard to handle, and most are escaping from the environment before they get hurt.
Surprisingly, many teachers are heading to other Pacific neighbours like Niue, the Cook Islands, Nauru and many more.
What are the Pacific nations providing to our teachers that Fiji is not providing?
And not forgetting they are moving to Australia and New Zealand, and working at places that don’t require qualifications but are receiving five time the amount they were getting here in Fiji.
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