Snowflake teachers.

Forwandert

I managed to drive to work on time (rural) some of the country winding roads where a little ropey but not everyone feels competent or safe enough driving in snowy conditions and to be honest I'd rather they stay off the roads when it's like that as someone driving 5 mph down the road infront of you doesn't help.

Only issue i had with the schools and snow day was the message at 08:51 to say the school was closed pretty sure they could have been sent sooner if someone had put some thought and planning into it.

z1a

Takmon wrote: »

When you make a general statement like that it's very telling of the type of person you are. With your attitude i'm not surprised your son needs extra help at school if he is exposed to your opinions.

Show me where I said he needs extra help.

He doesn't need extra help, he's held back by those that do.

ThumbRemote

z1a wrote: »

Show me where I said he needs extra help.

He doesn't need extra help, he's held back by those that do.

Having read this thread, it's clear that you're the sort of parent who think the sun shines out of your offsprings backside, and blames anyone and everyone else for them not reaching some arbitrary standard you expect them to be at.

You have no respect for teachers, but heaven forbid you'd find another school. After all, that would be just the same, because it's not actually the school or the teachers that is the issue. Far easier to apportion blame than face reality.

Let me guess, every time wonderboy is in trouble, it was someone else's fault too? What about school uniform, have you been in the local paper yet complaining that a pair of trainers weren't accepted as school shoes?

z1a

ThumbRemote wrote: »

Having read this thread, it's clear that you're the sort of parent who think the sun shines out of your offsprings backside, and blames anyone and everyone else for them not reaching some arbitrary standard you expect them to be at.

You have no respect for teachers, but heaven forbid you'd find another school. After all, that would be just the same, because it's not actually the school or the teachers that is the issue. Far easier to apportion blame than face reality.

Let me guess, every time wonderboy is in trouble, it was someone else's fault too? What about school uniform, have you been in the local paper yet complaining that a pair of trainers weren't accepted as school shoes?

You couldn't be more wrong.

stripeyfox

I respect my son's teachers and school a lot. But the policy of closing the school when we have 1cm of snow is infuriating. And they can never quite seem to decide the reason why they are closing. Over the years I've been told:
a) @it is too dangerous for teachers to drive in - they don't all live round the corner you know."
Absolute piffle. I commute to work. My wife commutes to work. Snow day is not an option for either of us. In my office some people commute 40+ miles a day but they all made it in on the day the school closes for minimal snow.

b) "it is dangerous for the kids - they might fall and slip" - great, so give them the day off and what to they do? Go and play in the snow. And no doubt some of them will slip over and the odd one might break an arm. My son's primary school have the kids play indoors at break time when it is raining so if why don't they do this in the snow

I'm not being a killjoy - I was willing us to get decent snow last week and had made arrangements to take a day holiday if necessary in case the kids were off. But the school's reasons for closing don't really stack up.

A few years ago, when my son was at nursery, we woke early to find heavy snowfall. My wife got up at 4am and got ready for work to drive to the hospital where she works. It took ages, but she got there, I left early. Took me an hour or more to do the short hop to work (at that time) dropping my son off at nursery en route. And this is the ridiculous thing - the nursery, a privately owned business, was open and it is within the building of the school - which was closed!

meer53

When I was young, I can't ever remember a time when school was closed because of snow. We got to school and were then sent out to play. In the snow.

These days Health & Safety rules mean that there has to be a set ratio of teachers to pupils. I feel that school closures are more to do with this, plus the compensation culture we now have means that schools would rather close than risk breaking any rules and regulations.

There are more snowflake parents than teachers these days. I wouldn't want to be a teacher, but I really admire those who are.

DiJones

When I was teaching, now retired, it was the Local Authority who made the decision about school closures. None of them were teachers.

KatrinaWaves

DiJones wrote: »

When I was teaching, now retired, it was the Local Authority who made the decision about school closures. None of them were teachers.

This. I never got to chose if I went to work or not!

Plus, when we did have school closures, I had to work from home and account for every bit of time. I wasnt just sat at home with a hot chocolate on instagram #snowday

Loanranger

What sort of message does closing the school give to the children? That it is ok not to strive, that it is ok to give up at the first hint of difficulty?
In the United States a closure for a snow day is added on to the end of term to ensure that the children are not missing out on their education.
I worked in universities and there was a requirement that all staff lived within a certain radius. No reason for teachers to not be subject to a similar rule.

neilmcl

baza52 wrote: »

ok ill PM you.

How did that go