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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Max McLean

Former teacher says strikers have ‘got their audience wrong’ after childcare woe

A former teacher who says he will lose £250 in earnings in order to look after his two children when teachers go on strike has said the educators withdrawing their labour have “got their audience completely wrong”.

Paul Long, in his forties, from near Birmingham, is a full-time self-employed education consultant with two children both of primary school age. His wife works in the NHS and he formerly worked as a computing teacher.

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