Excellence
The government's latest stunt is to call some teachers "excellent" and pay them more, instead of paying all teachers more. By implication most teachers do not deserve more money.
The TES website debate included the following contribution from a teacher:
"Back in the day, Enoch Powell met a delegation of nurses. He told them that they were wonderful people doing a job which really made a difference to their patients. They were angels of mercy. So they had better forget any nonsense about trying to get more pay because they would tarnish their image. (Or to put it another way the newspapers would make damned sure it was tarnished).

"Lavish words on the teachers - they don't cost anything. The "excellent" ones are defined as those who can be relied on to denigrate the rest."

The new website for Socialist Party teachers is now up and running on http://www.socialistteachers.org.uk and has articles on this and other matters including government proposals to rob teachers of their pensions.