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Fair enough. We're talking about the Upper Pay Scale presumably. By my reckoning, they've been teaching 10-12 years? Fair play, we probably should do more to keep them teaching and I'd be in favour of adding a couple of scale points to the upper list.
But the majority of teachers are still getting increases through other mechanisms and even those at the top of the scale have benefitted from going up the pay spine in previous years.
In Inner London, M6 (top of the normal scale) - M1 = £9768. That's a gain of almost £2000 a year. That's averages out at over 6.5% a year, I think. And it's not like there's no other way to get more money.