Why my tutors at King's College London are continuing to teach us even as they strike
It's hard to figure out what to say at a time like this. A guy named "Zach" from another uni in the UK said in a BBC interview that it was somewhat "wrenching" to realize he'd taking out a $65,000 annual loan in light of the strike, which began yesterday across the nation. The teachers are striking because their pensions are threatened to be cut by 10,000 pounds a year. That's the gist of it - don't make me get into the financial particulars. I don't have a pension. And I have about 25 pounds in my savings account. From the standpoint of principle, the professors from King's College London (my uni), Oxford, Cambridge, etc. not only have a right but almost an imperative to stand up for themselves. Yet, as a cabbie put it to me last night, "That they are fighting because of a 10,000-pound loss shows they have pretty good pensions to begin with. Some of us don't even have pensions." Right. Reminds me a bit of the argument in Hollyw...