It's Snowing, So What!

[DangerUXD]

Most of the schools are out! What has happenned to society? I can't remember ever having a day off school due to weather. When the heating broke we had lessons in our coats! Is this some sort of health and safety effect?

[gness]

Daisy. It's one of the few attitudes that really gets my back up. I loved what I did and was happy to put in the extra time and when you work with deaf children, special needs children and in an area where...well won't expand on that....you have to put in the extra time to make any mark at all.
I'm sitting here thinking about what we did and no way could we have done it in a "normal working day". One of the lads I worked my socks off to help was imprisoned yesterday for a crime committed with his dad.....a little bit of me is sorry I bothered.

[joeluke]

Oh alright then......

Those headteachers who can can't be @r$ed to open the school when it snows

Better?

[sophie_1003]

No completely appreciate what you're saying dave; there are some days when I leave by half 4 and then don't do anything in the evening but it usually comes back to bite me on the bum when I have to catch up on it at weekends! I try not to judge how easy or difficult a job is if I haven't done it myself but will argue that teachers deserve more respect than a lot of people give them.
Off to bed now anyway!
JL; chill out; it's the weekend now, you would have had to look after your child anyway.

[gness]

Well I'm glad Sunny Dave has given you a realistic view. I must have had my head in the feckin sand for all those years......
Dave You may be right about schools closing and I gave my views about that on another thread. My working hours? You are so mistaken.

[joeluke]

Enjoy your day off on Monday folks

[gness]

And another thing!!!!! What quiet weeks during exam time? Weeks?....Must have been during the snow when I couldn't be bothered to get there. :-)

[DaisyNonna]

Gness,I worked bloody hard but gained a great deal of satisfaction from teaching. Sometimes it was heartbreaking when a child you tried to help went off the rails. Many times it was uplifting when a child succeeded and achieved his/her goals. On the whole I do not think that my extra time was wasted but I do resent being portrayed as a shirker. Sometimes I wish for an ignore button on here so I do not have to keep justifying myself.
Keep in touch with some of my ex pupils, mainly those who took part in the extra (unpaid) activities. If we did not teach what would happen to the future adults?
So it snowed. When were teachers responsible for the weather?

[owdhamer]

Its all down to elf and safety.

[joeluke]

It also snowed in bygone days but headteachers nevber shut schools then

It's the blame culture we've created in this country, 'if someones slips or falls and hurts themselves then it must be someone elses fault so lets claim compensation from them'

er no, if someone slips and falls and hurts themselves then it's due to the icy conditions and that person wasn't paying enough due care or wasn't wearing suitable footwear

The operative word here being 'accident'

[sunny-dave]

I seem to have been selectively quoted/understood - I did start out by saying that it was a hard job and teachers deserve their holidays (which JL conveniently ignored).

Dedication (or the lack of it) is about who you are, not just what your job is. As I tried to say earlier, there are good and bad people in all professions - teaching is no exception but I would cheerfully accept that the good outnumber the bad many times over.

Teaching is not a cushy number now (if it ever was) - I never ever implied that - sorry if anyone thought I did.

[joeluke]

sherrard.....vigorously defending school closures on this thread yet mocking schools for announcing closures before snow had even fallen on one from yesterday?

Ooops, slip up there? Must've been the icy conditions huh?

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1207969.html

[sophie_1003]

An update as promised; yesterday it snowed where I live and so I hear, where my school is pretty much constantly all day. My plan was to wait until morning and see how the roads were seeing as on Saturday they were fine. However I got a call at about 8 last night saying school would be closed. I know some bus companies in the area had already said they wouldn't be running but don't know for sure what the reason was for our school choosing.

[ichkeria]

The school closures are fully justified. The problem is usually inability to guarantee enough staff to look after the children. Better to err on the side of caution. We have parents at our son's school bleating about child care arrangements. I thought that was what parents were for...

[joeluke]

'The school closures are fully justified'

LOL, you're kidding right?

[gness]

Ichkeria!!! Wash your mouth out!! Parents caring for their own children when the schools should be doing it for them! My goodness whatever next? You'll be expecting the parents to take the children out on sledges and have some fun with them. ;-)

[ichkeria]

lol gness!

Whatever next indeed! :-)
If we err a little on the side of caution these days so what. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of the same parents ranting and raving about school closures were the first to threaten to sue the school if anything DID happen
There are lots of reasons why schools deem it necessary to close. At ours the headmistress decides and we wouldn't argue with her (!)
And as you say, it gives us the chance to do a spot of home education. So everyone's a winner :-)