School closures are snow joke

Welshwoofs

wallbash wrote: »

That was my first thought , and my second BUT my third
Was .... if he had broken his leg/hip etc what use would he been to his school .
Perhaps a little thought , before his crawl would have been sensible.

My first thought was "Oh please, why didn't he put a pair of wooly socks on over his shoes!"

wallbash

why didn't he put a pair of wooly socks on over his shoes

:cool: We would have then been deprived of a super bit of tv , will he ever live it down .
those kids will have a field day . Can imagine them crawling around their school play grounds mimicking their Head.

Welshwoofs

wallbash wrote: »

:cool: We would have then been deprived of a super bit of tv , will he ever live it down .
those kids will have a field day . Can imagine them crawling around their school play grounds mimicking their Head.

Well that is true! Comedy gold I'd think.

Still I think he made a good example. I think kids should see people try (I also think it does them good to see people fail). It seems to me, and this is a sweeping generalisation I know, that a significant proportion of our youth are lacking in stamina. Certainly many of the children I come into contact with seem to give up on things too easily, or state they're "too hard" and don't even attempt to try.

Oblivion

Well, it's a relief to see this thread getting back to some good humour.

My attitude to the days of snow is pretty much summed up in this jokey blog ...

JAN 6th.
It's starting to snow. We took our hot toddies and sat on the porch watching the fluffy snow flakes drift gently down clinging to the trees and covering the ground. It's so beautiful and peaceful.

JAN 7th.
We awoke to a lovely blanket of crystal white glistening snowcovering as far as the eye could see. What a fantastic sight, every tree and bush covered with a beautiful white mantle. I shovelled snow for the first time ever and loved it. I did both our driveway and pavement.
Later that day a snowplough came along and accidentally covered up our driveway with compacted snow from the street. The driver smiled and waved. I waved back and shovelled it away again. The children next door built a snowman with coal for eyes and a carrot for a nose, and had a snowball fight, a couple just missed me and hit the car so I threw a couple back and joined in their fun.

JAN 8th.
It snowed an additional 5 inches last night and the temperature dropped to around minus 8 degrees. Several branches on our trees and bushes snapped due to the weight of snow. I shovelled our driveway again.
Shortly afterwards the snowplough came by and did his trick again. Much of the snow is now a brownish-grey.

JAN 9th.
Warmed up enough during the day to create some slush which soon became ice when the temperature dropped again. Bought snow tyres for both our cars £500. Fell on my a*se in the driveway. £100 to see a physio but nothing was broken.

JAN 10th.
Still cold. Sold the wife's car and bought her a 4x4 to get her to work. She slid into a wall and did considerable damage to the right wing -£200. Had another 8 inches of white sh*te last night. Both vehicles are re-covered in salt and iced up slush. That b*stard snowplough came by twice today. Where's that bl*ody shovel.

JAN 11th.
More F*****G snow. Not a tree or bush in our property that hasn't been damaged. Power was off most of the night. Tried to keep from freezing to death with candles and a paraffin heater which tipped over and nearly torched the house. I managed to put the flames out but suffered 2nd degree burns on my hands. Lost all my eye brows and eyelashes. Car hit a F*****G deer on the way to casualty and was written off.

JAN 12th.
F*****G B*****D white sh*te just keeps on coming down. Have to put on every article of clothing just to go to the post box. The little sod next door ambushed me with snowballs on the way back - I'll shove that carrot so far up the little pr*cks a*se it'll take a good surgeon 6 hours to find it. If I ever catch the a*sehole that drives the snowplough I'll chew open his chest and rip out his heart with my teeth. I think the B*****D hides round the corner and waits for me to finish shovelling and then he accelerates down the street like Michael F*****G Schumacher and buries the F*****G driveway again.

JAN 13th.
16 more sodding inches of F*****G snow and F*****G ice and F*****G sleet and god knows what other white sh*te fell last night. I am in court in 3 months time for assaulting the snowplough driver with an ice pick.
Can't move my F*****g toes. Haven't seen the sun for 5 weeks. Minus 20 and more F*****G snow forecast.

F**K THIS, I'M MOVING TO SOUTH AFRICA OR AUSTRALIA.



Dave.

gregg1

Welshwoofs wrote: »

Well I don't happen to buy into the fantasy that all teachers are hard-working and all teachers are selfless champions of children's education and well-being. I happen to think that teachers, by and large, enjoy above-average salary levels, pensions which are unheard of in the private sector and bloody good holidays.

I know 4 teachers, 3 are friends and 1 is a step-sister. To be frank, and they've admitted this themselves, 2 of those who went straight into teaching after school/university wouldn't know what a hard job was if it slapped them on the !!!!! and called them Mary. Yes, they do a bit of marking in the evenings, sometimes even at weekends, but all but one admits that if you averaged those hours out over a year they still get far more time off than their friends working in the private sector.

Now as these sorts of opinions are generally followed up by some wit suggesting that the poster should become a teacher if they think it's so great....I can't stand children, otherwise I think it'd be a rather attractive career option...particularly if I didn't want to starve in my old age.

Then they are not doing the job properly!

gregg1

Just thought I would stir it up a bit more - but I wonder how many parents complaining about the schools closing for snow, think nothing of taking their kids out of school during termtime for holidays? ()

voiceofreason

gregg1 wrote: »

Just thought I would stir it up a bit more - but I wonder how many parents complaining about the schools closing for snow, think nothing of taking their kids out of school during termtime for holidays? ()

...and then getting all gobby when they're called on it, on the lines of "they've no right to tell me about my kids, etc, etc...."? Aye, good point.

The thought had occurred to me, too......

FatAndy

My eight year old has only been on one holiday once in her life, and that was four days in a caravan in Aberystwyth. It rained all four days but there was an indoor swimming pool on the site so had a wonderful time.

And yes, it was during the summer holidays. I don't agree that parents should take their kids on holiday during term time and if they get fined them I'll go along with that. And I know that the problem is with travel companies ripping off their customers but that's a whole other thread to open!

wallbash

Goody :j

And I know that the problem is with travel companies ripping off their customers but that's a whole other thread to open!

Will be waiting:D

mikey72

FatAndy wrote: »

Hi Aimee,

This morning on BBC Breakfast they featured a head teacher who had to crawl across ice to reach his school because it was impossible to walk on it. My first reaction was 'top bloke'. My second reaction was 'I wish he was the head teacher in my daughter's school'.

Should have driven there like these did.
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