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(From Czech News Agency)

PRAGUE, Sept 1 (CTK) - Teachers have a reason why to be angry since the government did not fulfil what it had promised to them, but their strike is still unwise for two reasons, Milos Cermak writes in the daily Lidove noviny today.

First, strikes in general are a bad method of achieving something. Individual responsibility is replaced by collective irresponsibility. Participation in a strike is not a manifestation of courage or pride but rather of a comfortable effort to stick to the majority, Cermak writes.

The right to strike is anchored in the constitution, as are its limits. This is also why every strike is a complex step with clear rules. Here lies the second reason why the teachers' strike is unreasonable, Cermak writes.

From the point of view of tactics, the teachers' unions could not have chosen a worse date than the beginning of a new school year. They are right that the impacts of the strike will be minimal because most children and their parents do not care whether there are only a few or no classes on the first day. But if so, does it make sense to organise any strike at all? Cermak writes.

The strike thus turns into an undignified and unnecessary cabaret show, he writes.

Regional governors have called on the Health Minister to resign, but if they really want to punish the real culprit responsible for the system of financing the health care, they should call on the whole of the state to resign, Martin Denemark writes in the daily Hospodarske noviny today.