teacher's strike

victory

Isn't that the same as the inset days the two of mine get different ones at different times so one comes out with me if they want to for a fun day and th other goes to school and what comes around goes around:D

suejb2

Keep the other one off school aswell and have a fab day and if there is any comeback from the non-striking school tell them you are coming out in sympathy with those that did strike and to see your union rep about it!!

skylight

3 of mine go to the same school - 2 are off and one should be in as only her year group have been requested to turn up. Her teacher has told me though that only 2 out of 4 of that years teachers will be in anyway (she is one of them) as they dont expect all the kids to turn up, so its going to be a movie day for the ones that do.

DD wont be going.

skylight

Actually, what was mildly amusing (I have an odd sense of humour), was on the strike letter, they also mentioned the change of parent evening dates. In big bold letters underneath, they "expect 100% attendance rate from the parents for this evening".

WestonDave

Funnily enough we had the reverse problem - DS1 is in school as is the rest of the whole school apart from reception - which is where DS2 is. Get a letter home "requesting" that we keep DS2 off school but stating that if we need to send him in there will be supervised play for him. We therefore had to decide whether or not to send him in. In the end as we don't need the childcare we figured he might as well have a day off - its his first term and he's going to be flagging by Christmas anyway so a duvet day at home will probably mean he lasts out better.

I've no idea how they are engineering this because I'm sure last time round there were more than just 3 teachers (the number of reception classes) who were on strike - so either some are not joining in again or there is some cover going on. It also amuses me slightly that they are providing "childcare" for reception - somehow a group of parents managed to bully the head into changing the gradual introduction of reception to full time school (normally they start on mornings only and gradually build up to full time - this got changed this year to everyone being allowed to be in full time from something like 26th September!) - so I suspect this is related.

bestpud

If I had just one child due at school and found siblings of pupils affected by the strike were not required to attend, I'm afraid my child wouldn't either!

After all, if they are allowing that, they are expecting to repeat the planned work, or leave it until another day anyway. Chances are the day would be a waste of time and they'd learn far more if taken somewhere educational with their family.

I'm not sure what I would do, but my feeling is I would take them both if I'd managed to plan something good for the day.

If the other one was going to school, I wouldn't let them know they'd be missing all sorts - that's just mean!

thegirlintheattic

skylight wrote: »

3 of mine go to the same school - 2 are off and one should be in as only her year group have been requested to turn up. Her teacher has told me though that only 2 out of 4 of that years teachers will be in anyway (she is one of them) as they dont expect all the kids to turn up, so its going to be a movie day for the ones that do.

DD wont be going.

If the teacher really said that I would be getting the kids a transfer to another school ASAP! That is not a professional attitude and is not beneficial to the kids.

Ada_Doom

Will be taking both my kids to the picket line I am organizing, won't send them to school out of solidarity with the striking teachers.

JC9297

jackieblack wrote: »

This isn't what the Department for Education guidance says.

Ok, perhaps I should have said they are very restricted. Agencies are not allowed to supply staff and schools cannot ask their own staff to do it unless it is in their contract.

Bumpmakesfour

Would be interested to see how many of the parents that think it's totally fine to just give a child the day off school because a sibling has it are on here posting "can't get teen out of bed to college/can't get teen to saturday job as has hangover" etc if those are the kind of ethics being instilled