Whangārei teachers and supporters in Cameron St Mall after marching through the city.
Up to 2000 Northland teachers and their supporters have taken to the streets in four main centres calling for better working conditions and better pay.
In Whangārei, up to 1000 teachers, parents and children met at Forum North before walking around the city streets to deliver letters to the officesof MP's before finishing in Cameron St Mall.
Hora Hora School's Joseph Tobin was among those marching, and his reason was simple.
"Because for the last nine years education has been underfunded."
He said there was a drop in the number of people studying to come in the profession while others were coming to the end of their careers and retiring.
He said there was not enough funding to go around for kids that need it.
"What the government is offering is nowhere near enough."
Tobin is a third year teacher and said he started as a teacher aide. "I saw how valuable and important the work was, I wanted to be able to do more."
Teachers in Kaitaia took part in the northern most march of the day. Photo/Peter Jackson
An estimated 300 marched in Kerikeri, around 200 in Kaitaia while about 60 others walked in Dargaville. Many teachers also picketed outside their schools before taking part in the marches.
The Ministry of Education had offered to increase pay, in the majority of cases, by between 2.2 and 2.6 per cent a year for three years.
