Closing Schools = Farce

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alib

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a disgrace - all schools in Bury closed (apart from Bury Grammar!!!) and in Rochdale decision made over 24 hrs ago!!

no snow overnight in Bury just heavy rain which has washed most of the snow away

still the lazy teachers get a another day to go Xmas shopping at the taxpayers expense and parents have to lose money staying off work to look after kids or pay child minders to do so

and they have the nerve to threaten to fine parents for taking kids on holiday in term time when they shut down schools at the drop of a hat
 
Hate to spoil such a moronic rant but the decision was made by the Council.
 
Stay indoors...
Watch TV...
Don't go outside...
It's dangerous out there...
Drink Beer...
Who's liable if you have an accident...?
Watch Sky News...
Go to sleep...
Your Government is in control...
 
The council will have made the decision because of the weather forecasts they were being given. And as late as yesterday afternoon they were using the phrase 'a snow event' on Radio 4 to describe today's conditions.

There are some lazy teachers, teachers who are out the door at going home time faster than the children. There are others who run themselves into the ground doing the job, my sister routinely works eight to five (or later) at school and then does other school work at home.
 
johnny on the spot said:
How anyone has the gall to call teachers lazy is beyond me. This decision was clearly made by the local authority.
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This. My dad is a teacher and the ex-girlfriend is a teacher. They never stop working. If they aint in a classroom teaching kids - many of which don't know how to read, write or show respect to their fellow pupils or teachers - they are at home marking, planning lessons and generally trying to meet the (unrealistic) criteria a group of people who don't do their job set in place for them till at least 6pm every day and over the weekends. The holidays they get may seem like a good thing, but you look after and try and teach values and subjects to an overcrowded classroom whilst a governing body watches your every move and then tell us you don't need a few weeks off a year.
Along with nurses, this is a profession that is seriously undervalued and underpaid. My old man convinced myself and my sister not to go down the route of teaching as it simply isn't worth the time and effort a lot of people have put in.
I'm pretty sure the teachers who are off today aren't having a doss. Those that are substitute teachers (as is my dad) don't get paid unless they are in the classroom will probably be cursing the council for loss of income just before Christmas. Have a word with them.
 
alib said:
a disgrace - all schools in Bury closed (apart from Bury Grammar!!!) and in Rochdale decision made over 24 hrs ago!!

no snow overnight in Bury just heavy rain which has washed most of the snow away

still the lazy teachers get a another day to go Xmas shopping at the taxpayers expense and parents have to lose money staying off work to look after kids or pay child minders to do so

and they have the nerve to threaten to fine parents for taking kids on holiday in term time when they shut down schools at the drop of a hat
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My lad goes to school in the Rochdale borough and I got a text from the school at 7.15 this morning, telling me the school would be open.
You must admit, it was good on the roads this morning.
 
stony said:
alib said:
a disgrace - all schools in Bury closed (apart from Bury Grammar!!!) and in Rochdale decision made over 24 hrs ago!!

no snow overnight in Bury just heavy rain which has washed most of the snow away

still the lazy teachers get a another day to go Xmas shopping at the taxpayers expense and parents have to lose money staying off work to look after kids or pay child minders to do so

and they have the nerve to threaten to fine parents for taking kids on holiday in term time when they shut down schools at the drop of a hat
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My lad goes to school in the Rochdale borough and I got a text from the school at 7.15 this morning, telling me the school would be open.
You must admit, it was good on the roads this morning.
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he must be gutted lol
 
atbmcfc said:
stony said:
My lad goes to school in the Rochdale borough and I got a text from the school at 7.15 this morning, telling me the school would be open.
You must admit, it was good on the roads this morning.
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he must be gutted lol
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He wasn't happy.
 
I went to school in the Rossendale Valley in the 70's and in 7 years not once did the school close for snow ( and we had much much worse weather back then )

On occasions we would walk 3-4 miles there and the same back in blizzards

different times I suppose?

btw if it was a Council decision how come not all schools are closed?

and don't get me started on "teacher training days" - another excuse for time off? again no such thing in my day - why can't they have "training days" during their 13 weeks annual leave?
 
alib said:
and don't get me started on "teacher training days" - another excuse for time off? again no such thing in my day - why can't they have "training days" during their 13 weeks annual leave?
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Again, a governing body that has no idea of what the real job entails makes these sort of decisions and these days compulsary. Don't blast the teachers for it. It takes them out of the classrooms and away from teaching kids, which is the reason they studied to be teachers in the first place. There's more bureacracy in teaching than teaching itself these days. Do you really think the majority of teachers are happy with that. Like I said, the 13 weeks they get off aren't entirely a life of luxury. They spend a good deal of time getting things sorted for when the school reopens and a fair few of them spend the last few weeks back at school planning and getting clasrooms sorted for the next term/academic year. And the first few training days of the year ARE done when the kids are still on summer holidays.
 
well we ad it tough

we used to ave to get up 2 hours before we went to bed!
 
Not blaming the teachers as people on this thread have already stated that it was the council that decided to shut the schools. But what I will say is that I echo the comments of someone else in that our school - primary or secondary - never once closed due to snow. And the snow used to be a lot worse back then. I remember our primary school did get closed once due to frozen pipes when the temperature hit something like minus 16 overnight but that's it. Too may soft twats around these days for my liking.
 
Joycee Banercheck said:
alib said:
and don't get me started on "teacher training days" - another excuse for time off? again no such thing in my day - why can't they have "training days" during their 13 weeks annual leave?
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Again, a governing body that has no idea of what the real job entails makes these sort of decisions and these days compulsary. Don't blast the teachers for it. It takes them out of the classrooms and away from teaching kids, which is the reason they studied to be teachers in the first place. There's more bureacracy in teaching than teaching itself these days. Do you really think the majority of teachers are happy with that. Like I said, the 13 weeks they get off aren't entirely a life of luxury. They spend a good deal of time getting things sorted for when the school reopens and a fair few of them spend the last few weeks back at school planning and getting clasrooms sorted for the next term/academic year. And the first few training days of the year ARE done when the kids are still on summer holidays.
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YAWN!! 13 WEEKS HOLIDAY FFS
 
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