School Closures

[joeluke]

Item on tonights news about school which went the extra mile to open.......teachers coming in early, clearing paths/playgrounds/carparks, walking round with buckets spreading salt etc

Good old British spirit, puts all the schools who shut without even making an effort to shame

[Prudie]

God Joe you're like Tennyson's Brook - you go on and on

[AlwaysConfused]

i am reluctant to agree. Teachers may live well out of the catchment area. Would you be happy to send a kid to school with 200 kids in total, with only 2 teachers? Could 2 adults safely get 200 kids out if there was an emergency/fire?

[sherrardk]

Oh For Funks Sake

[joeluke]

'Teachers may live well out of the catchment area'

I live 20 miles from my place of work but managed to get there, as did thousands of others who don't exactly live on the doorstep of their workplace

Schools close because they can, it's the easy option

[Barmaid]

It is not the teachers' fault. If the Head decides "I am closing" there is naff all the teachers can do. They can't blinking teach if there is no one there to teach.

[gness]

Joe....you're a love...you do make me smile. x

[Barmaid]

Glad he makes someone smile Gness.

[sherrardk]

This is clearly something that troubles you. Why don't you ask for a meeting with the head of your local school and explain your concerns to him/her rather than bleating the same thing on here all the time? Maybe you could join the board of govenors in the hope of being part of the decision making team on whether the school shuts or not. Maybe you could do a degree for three years and then a teaching qualification course for a year and then, you too, could get snow days. But no, you won't, you would rather bitch and moan that the school shut and inconvenienced you in some way.

[Psybbo]

Gness, he doesn't do irony x

[joeluke]

Sherrard.......was talking generally - not just about my sons school, but the THOUSANDS across the country where the head took the easy option without even considering making the effort

[joeluke]

School caretakers should be earning their wages by getting in early to begin the snow clearing/gritting etc

[gness]

Oh I know....but I have never know a man get his knockers in such a twist over something like a school closing for a few days. :-)

[gness]

Knickers! I meant knickers!

[excelsior-1]

lol gness

[DaisyNonna]

Knockers is really more expressive in this instance!

[AlwaysConfused]

It took me an hour and 4 minutes to walk to work this morning (not that I was timing it, obviously!) and me and my hot flask of tea got there, but that is only 3.6 miles away. And I quickly fed the ducks along the way. I wouldn't even think about walking 20 miles though, and nor would you. I made it to work today, many didn't. Som eof my colleagues live on a hill/dip/country friggin lane. Only a handful of people take the pee, most are genuine.

[gness]

Sorry....one glass of wine and a session on the inversion table and....whoops.

[237SJ]

Most of my colleagues live scattered around the country. Some are scattered around Europe and beyond. Hardly any didn`t get in to work. Not getting in to work is frowned upon and people try their best. On our forum at work I have read stories of people who have done a 170 mile round trip to work, only to be told to go home and come back tomorrow. If you have to get up at 4am for a 7am report then you do. It`s that simple.

[joeluke]

237SJ........something tells me you're not a teacher?

[sherrardk]

So it doesn't occur to you that there may be a reason why these THOUSANDS of school closed? (Nice swerve on the whole 'getting of your butt and doing something' suggestion though.)