With three children, Mandy says her family has already scaled back plans for the summer holidays and knows "life will be different at home" if the dispute continues into autumn. "But we just can't afford to both be on strike, despite how I feel inside, and that guilt knowing my colleagues are taking a hit in their wages to help me." "I feel incredibly guilty coming into school today", she told Sky News. They've both joined the picket line in the past but now have to take it in turns. That's because some teachers here, like Mandy Nicolaou, can no longer afford to strike. Three year groups are absent because of the strike, but it's not as many as during previous walkouts. The hallways and playground are much quieter than usual at St Anne's and Guardian Angels primary school in east London.
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