Why doesn't the rest of the country revolve their working lifes around you set of soft mard arsed...ooooh my drive to works to dangerous....striking...teacher training... 13 weeks holidaying...6hour day working cuntshovellers...

Shouldn't the thread be titled 'Primary School Teachers (Again)'? Why would Secondary School Teachers be affecting anyone else's work schedule?

Edited January 22, 201313 yr by Youri McAnespie

Shouldn't the thread be titled 'Primary School Teachers (Again)'? Why would Secondary School Teachers be affecting anyone else's work schedule?

 

Because you shouldn't be leaving a 12 yr old at home alone, unless he's Macauley Culkin?

I'd say, with certain exceptions of course, that most children of secondary school age should be capable of spending 9am 'ish' to 3pm 'ish' home alone, barring any pesky interruptions.

I'd say, with certain exceptions of course, that most children of secondary school age should be capable of spending 9am 'ish' to 3pm 'ish' home alone, barring any pesky interruptions.

 

Where are the parents meant to be before and after those times?

I've been up to the top barn with work this morning, no problem.

Please don't don't tell me there's kids not in school today.

I heard somebody on the wireless yesterday saying that in some states of the US (where they get a lot of snow) - when they have a day off due to heavy snow fall, it's called a "Snow Day" - at the end of a school year, all the Snow Days are then added back on and start to eat into the summer holidays - that's what we ought to be doing

Where are the parents meant to be before and after those times?

 

At work I presume, or home if they don't.

Edited January 22, 201313 yr by Youri McAnespie

I heard somebody on the wireless yesterday saying that in some states of the US (where they get a lot of snow) - when they have a day off due to heavy snow fall, it's called a "Snow Day" - at the end of a school year, all the Snow Days are then added back on and start to eat into the summer holidays - that's what we ought to be doing

 

I think you read it on here actually.

http://www.wanderersways.com/forum/topic/76143-snow-watch/page__st__375#entry1144602

 

Stop pretending you've got a radio.

Edited January 22, 201313 yr by Traf

My Brother was sent hom yesterday at 12;15.

 

I don't understand sending um home at that time, and how it stops teachers teaching.

 

The roads was ok yesterday, just the pavements had a bit of snow.

 

I got to work in half hour.

 

lazy cunts

My Brother was sent hom yesterday at 12;15.

 

I don't understand sending um home at that time, and how it stops teachers teaching.

 

The roads was ok yesterday, just the pavements had a bit of snow.

 

I got to work in half hour.

 

lazy cunts

 

The poor teachers have to make sure they're home by 4 and they were worried there'd be too much traffic.

I think you read it on here actually.

http://www.wanderers...75#entry1144602

 

Stop pretending you've got a radio.

 

Perhaps that is where I got it from.

 

Anyway, I have got a radio now, I got it for Christmas

 

Contrary to popular opinion, and being completely honest, because most teachers enjoy the job, they don't jump up and down in ecstasy when there's free days. That said, the part of the job from 9-3pm is a piece of piss and passes so quickly - one minute it's morning, the next the kids are going home, so even those who don't like the job don't get overjoyed when they get a day off. It's not like they (teachers) are sat there clockwatching, or dread coming into work of a morning (even the bad/less keen ones).

 

The same parents who are ranting and raving when the schools are closed, are usually the same ones who'd be ranting and raving if they had a call for them to come to the Accident and Emergency, because their kid had fell...Can't win.

 

Anyhow, I don't want this to sound like a defence of teachers - it's just plain fact. Finally, most children should be trustworthy/capable enough to look after themselves at thirteen, if not younger.

Edited January 22, 201313 yr by Youri McAnespie

Teachers have to stay behind as, inevitably, there wll always be some cases where the childrens' parents are simply unable to leave work to collect them.

 

ALL parents should unite and say they can't leave work to collect them.

 

That'll learn 'em.

Finally, most children should be trustworthy/capable enough to look after themselves at thirteen, if not younger.

 

But the reality is that they are so mollycoddled, so they can't.

Teachers are teachers, not babysitters.

I say that, but the reality was I did spend a lot of my time babysitting barely literate or house trained chimps. I blame the parents.

Teachers are teachers, not babysitters.

 

Are you suggesting their job is to teach only ... and have no responsibility for their welfare?

Are you suggesting their job is to teach only ... and have no responsibility for their welfare?

 

 

Nope - see above

Mick is right, they are not babysitters.

 

Where they (collectively) fall down is they dont always consider the set day to day routines that goes on outside their own individual lifes. Working parents, childcare provisions and the like. Things that cannot always be rectified at the drop of a hat without serious disruption.

 

Decisions they make about whether to teach or not has a direct result on the daily routine of so many other people who rely upn that routine continuing, but they dont get that.

 

Then again, they've been going to school since 4 years old so its not really suprising.

 

Whilst they can decide to drop everything and fuck off or not come in at all, I do wonder if they consider the impact that has. If I suddenly dont turn into work, I'm not affecting the daily routine of x number of other people. They will piss and whine about that but hey, thats the job they chose to do, get over it.

Is it safe to assume that teachers don't have children of their own, then?

Then again, they've been going to school since 4 years old so its not really suprising.

 

When I was in the school a couple of years ago the head of department pretty much said this. She was great and welcomed someone from the "outside" as I could teach the kids how their skills can be use in the outside world.

 

Then they shoved me in another school in Bolton with utter twonks for teachers. Oh, well.

Most schools aren't run by democratic decisions. The teachers don't put it to a vote. Like Mick said, they aren't a drop-in centre either, if the majority of pupils aren't in - they can't keep open for the few because some parents are stuck for childcare, or don't have confidence in their older children to fend for themselves at home.

When I was at secondary school in the 1960s every school finished at 4pm. Now it's difficult to find any (state) schools which do so.

 

Also in the 'big freeze' year of 1963 I missed only one day of school in the term. School was never cancelled, although we may have been sent home an hour early when there was freezing fog.

 

That absence was the Monday after the Northern Cross-Country Championships at Blackburn (Witton Park). The flooded and frozen playing field where the race started (where the all-weather hockey pitches are now) had the thick ice crack completely as 200 boys raced over it, leading to running in very cold water with large icebergs liable to hit knees.

Oh aye, another thing, how many times do folk tailor their days to accommodate tradesmen (Hello Sailor!) or to receive parcels or other deliveries. Then, due to unforeseen circumstances, they're let down and the day is wasted. You don't get people coming on going "My builder, the soft twat, wouldn't fix my chimney stack - it was only a force 8 wind ffs" or "fucking Parcelforce, just because their driver was in a pile-up - they didn't deliver my mung bean hammock".

Edited January 22, 201313 yr by Youri McAnespie

Like Mick said, they aren't a drop-in centre either, if the majority of pupils aren't in - they can't keep open for the few because some parents are stuck for childcare, or don't have confidence in their older children to fend for themselves at home.

 

I don't think anyone has suggested that though have they?

 

I think the thing that irks folk so much is, at the drop of a hat they just decide school will be shut, whether that be through striking or because there's a teeny bit of snow forecast. The inconvenience they cause is huge.

 

To simply shrug and say, "They're not babysitters" is hardly going to help.