'Our children are being disadvantaged enormously' - Staffordshire parents call for end to teacher strikes
Parents with children at a school near Wolverhampton are calling for an end to teacher strikes which resulted in disruption for pupils preparing to sit exams.
Some lessons have been run online at Wombourne High School on strike days as a result of the row between National Education Union members and the Invictus Education Trust over staff wellbeing or directed time working arrangements.
Wombourne parent Annmarie Betteley told the Express & Star: "Our children are being disadvantaged enormously by these strikes and damaging their education.
"Many parents are discussing how the children are becoming disengaged with their learning. We have a daughter in Year 11 and a son in Year 10. Although Year 11 are going into school they are not being taught as they should be.
"They have mock exams which will certainly be hindered by these strikes. Year 10 will also be expected to sit mock exams towards the end of this academic year.
"These year groups are also the children who suffered during the Covid pandemic with weeks and months out of school and no real education. Many parents have tried to contact Edward Vitalis the chief executive of the trust, sending emails and telephone messages with no response at all. There has been numerous meetings between the trust and union with talks still happening regularly.
