Almost every school is closed during the first Scotland-wide teachers' strike since the 1980s.
The EIS now represents about 80% of the country's teachers and its actions are closing almost all primary, secondary and additional support needs schools.Many early years learning centres and nurseries are also affected.
It also means that attention which should be on raising attainment or helping pupils who lost out during the pandemic will instead be focused on balancing out the impact of disruption. "They have offered a series of sub-standard offers that fall far below the rate of inflation and far short of the justifiable expectations of Scotland's hard-working teaching professionals," she said."Their much self-lauded 'generous and progressive' offer is actually worth, on average, an extra 71p per week to Scotland's teachers compared to the previously rejected offer.
Ms Somerville said she was "very disappointed" that strike action would disrupt children and their families.that a 10% pay increase was "unaffordable for the Scottish government".
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