schools opening when it has snowed!

gregg1

balletshoes wrote: »

oh I think we would - because its the teachers not being able to get to school in sufficient numbers to staff the school which is a factor in closing the school.

I do agree with a previous poster - the parents attitudes need to change. Now again, obviously there are exceptions, as have been discussed here, but generally speaking, the way it should go is, if the school is open, the kids go to school.

Not in our area. The main factor in closing the schools is that the coaches will not operate to pick up the kids or take them home. I know quite a few teachers who made it in on Friday only to be sent straight back home again because the school decided to close after they had got there. A couple of them asked if they could stay and work there and were told they couldn't, the school was closing to everyone.

How on earth can anyone say that is the teachers' fault?

misiek404

mrcow wrote: »

Surely you can understand the issues?

If you're living in an area that has 4-5 months of heavy snow/winter, then it makes sense to heavily invest in a infastructure geared towards clearing it/coping with it for that extended period of time.

In the UK, we get heavy snow perhaps once every couple of years for a week or two. It makes no economic sense to invest in such an infastructure.

If the government started increasing taxes to pay for such things, there would quite rightly be an outcry.

Yes and no. If Uk was a third world country then maybe yes.
I come from a poor country and in terms of infrastructures there is nothing different over there. If anything, roads are in worse condition and councils count every penny before thy spend it.
It is no rocket science to prepare for snow. It's not like it surprises you every year

balletshoes

misiek404 wrote: »

Yes and no. If Uk was a third world country then maybe yes.
I come from a poor country and in terms of infrastructures there is nothing different over there. If anything, roads are in worse condition and councils count every penny before thy spend it.
It is no rocket science to prepare for snow. It's not like it surprises you every year

prepare schools and school transport companies etc how? Clearly it is an issue, for various reasons, more now than it used to be here in the UK.

pollypenny

scooby088 wrote: »

I guess if parents didn't choose the local school with a decent report or the school 5 miles away with an excellent ofsted report then we wouldn't have the debate about getting into school.

Not everyone lives in a city.

The school were I worked served a market town and the surrounding area. Some buses brought kids in from villages up to 6 miles away.

marisco_2

flipper_72 wrote: »

Anyway main reason for posting is to point out the enormous spelling mistake above - maybe johnnyl had too many "snow days" when at school to learn to spell or use a dictionary (or even spell checker).
Disproportionately

:rotfl::rotfl:

Oh come on now. You expect someone who cant write articulately, in a non aggressive manner with no swear words to be able to spell.

johnnyl you have surpassed yourself now. Fancy writing something in beautiful, huge, bright red letters and not checking your spelling. Total corker.

misiek404

balletshoes wrote: »

prepare schools and school transport companies etc how? Clearly it is an issue, for various reasons, more now than it used to be here in the UK.

Re transport do what the rest of the world is doing. Change to winter tyres and carry on as normal.
Re schools.. erm.. nothing? buildings are insulated and have central heating. What else do you want to do

johnnyl

pollypenny wrote: »

Strange. Having initially assumed by the name, that Melly was a woman, I was pretty certain that he asserted his masculinity. :cool:

it was a shared account which I then got my own. In those discussions you were probably posting to me.

johnnyl

Kaz2904 wrote: »

It wasn't just teachers who went on strike. It is their legal right to strike to protect their pensions. Blah blah ad nauseum.

I actually agree with the strikes, however if you are going to disrupt my childs education for an economic gain just dont moan if I do it. It is about being consistent with your actions and ideals, not expecting others to act in a way that you dont match yourself.

Kaz2904 wrote: »

I would suggest that perhaps you retrained as a teacher to start encouraging change from the bottom but I think it would probably tip you over the edge when you realised that half the things which are done aren't done out of spite and done to spoil our lives.

couldnt afford the pay cut

thegirlintheattic

marisco wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek:

Noooooooooooooooo

Dont suggest johnnyl retrain as a teacher please. Haven't we all got enough to cope with already, without the distinctly nasty possibility that he could end up as a colleague _pale_

He wouldn't last five minutes. To be an effective teacher you need to possess life skills and knowledge, that he has demonstrated frequently on this thread, he simply does not possess

So nice to see that a vast number of his posts have been removed by the forum team over night. Makes this thread far more pleasant to read.

It's an unpleasant thought :eek:! johnnyl would open the school with only 1 member of staff, presumably teach them his poor spelling and grammar and let all the children take long term-time holidays. :rotfl:

Brummie, at my school (a secondary), we post work for the kids to do on the VLE if the school closes or a significant number of students are off due to the weather. Parents are regularly reminded during the winter that the work is on the VLE but few children actually do it. If some children make it in to school we either do the VLE work with them or do something related to the work we've been doing. So we do our best to ensure no one misses out on a day's education, unfortunately some parents don't put enough emphasis on education and so don't encourage the kids to do the work.

I see the same pattern time and time again - at the end of term we have high absence rates as some parents take the view it's nearly x it won't harm, when kids have a mild cold but are kept home, when holidays are taken during term time with no attempt to catch up with the work (including one two month holiday during an exam year!). There is a similar pattern with homework - calling parents to be told the child does homework in their room or says there is no homework and the parent never checks, getting notes to say the child didn't have time to do the work so they haven't done it, the child doesn't want to do x,y,z so the parent is excusing them from the work. Don't get me wrong most parents are really diligent and work with the school to make sure their children progress, it's a small but significant minority who work against us.

Snow days are certainly not a DVD day here! Our school never allows DVDs or other time wasters regardless on the situation/time of year (unless the DVD is part of the Scheme of Work). That being said it is VERY rare for us to close, our head will only close if there is no food, unsafe site, critically understaffed, no heat or power.

johnnyl

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

It's an unpleasant thought :eek:! johnnyl would open the school with only 1 member of staff, presumably teach them his poor spelling and grammar and let all the children take long term-time holidays. :rotfl:
r.

well what I wouldnt do is close the school then pretend that there were laws that dont really exist to justify me doing it.