The tide is turning on secondary teachers, with frustration growing amongst parents as their children are forced to take more days off school because of rolling teacher strikes.
A new round of industrial action started today - but parents are losing sympathy.
Secondary school students are facing another month of teacher strikes and their parents are fed up.
Parent Rachel Moresi has had enough.
"I've never been more frustrated as a parent," Moresi told Newshub. "I feel completely helpless, but I feel like enough is enough, children are suffering, children are hurting - and we need this to stop."
Her children are in year 10 and year 12 - they're among the nearly 300,000 secondary school students impacted by strikes.
For the next three weeks, every day from Monday to Thursday, two-year groups of students won't have teachers.
Student Sienna Barrett-Lovie is worried as well.
"I can't personally achieve what I want to achieve, I'm not getting much support from the teachers if they're not there," Sienna said.
Newshub has received dozens of comments about the teacher strikes.
"Many parents are now furious, and our kids are losing respect for the teachers," one said.
"Parents have no power and no voice, nor do students," another said.
"They are screwing our kids big time," one complainant said.
"So sick of the schools striking," another said. While one simply urged teachers to "just accept the offer".
"They should get back to teaching," someone else said.
Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) president Chris Abercrombie said teachers understand it's frustrating because it's frustrating for them too.
"I can absolutely understand their frustration, we're frustrated as well - no one wants to be in this situation," Abercrombie said.
But the union is in this situation because it rejected the Government's pay offer on Friday - saying it doesn't reflect inflation or better working conditions, so after nearly a year - it's back to the negotiating table.
"We could finish this today if the Government came to the party," Abercrombie added.
But Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said the declined offer was a "good" one.
"It is a good offer that is on the table with secondary school teachers, we'd encourage them.. rather than taking strike action - to go back to facilitated bargaining," Hipkinsa said.
But parents are running out of patience.
"I want action and I want it now. We need kids back in the classroom," Moresi said.
And back to exam prep.
