and how exactly do you know if I withdrew my services or not?

You presumptuous c0ck

Sorry, had to go and do a load of marking.

What were you saying about choice of profession?

I haven’t avoidably missed a days teaching for a decade or so. Having my own kids has meant missing a day here or there.

Litigatious pupils parents’ cost the taxpayer a tidy sum every year. Head teachers don’t want to be sued – though most LEA’s settle out of court as its much cheaper.

I was away booking a holiday for my only 2 weeks offin summer.

I was waiting for teachers’ holidays to get brought into it.

Then I take it bruneep you showed the same disdain to your fellow workers for striking as you show to teachers for not going to work in the snow, at least you would be consistent.

So who can’t be bothered to go to work today (southerners anyway)

Nothing but utter mass excuse to skive off work, if buses and trains ran ok thirty years ago why can’t they now. I don’t know a single person that drives that did’nt get to work yesterday.

I’m at school now, just ignoring the kids and wasting tax payers money on here. 😉

I wouldn’t say trying to keep up with the kids’ computer skills is a waste of tax payers money
You get all the new skills you need, don’t mind the cost

i haven’t been given the option. Because of the weather my employer has decided to shut for the day (again). All those with access have been asked to work from home, the rest get a freebie. Seems reasonably sensible to me; for those folks nothing needs doing today that can’t be done tomorrow that’s worth even a small risk for.

I’m at school now with waht feels like the start of ‘flu. But cover for another member of staff who has a real reason to not be here would be stretched if i weren’t.

bruneep nice split standard there. calling someone for being a teacher and its’ their job they knew what they were siging up to then highlighting your paltry 2week summer break.

<checks state of glasshouse re all the stone throwing>

bruneep nice split standard there. calling someone for being a teacher and its’ their job they knew what they were siging up to then highlighting your paltry 2week summer break

Yep can’t argue with that…Firemen knew what the wages were when they signed up too!…..cracks me up when you saw them all moaning they needed a 2nd job to survive…….how many full time jobs actually give you enough free time to run a building company in your spare time?

Fire service job ads are massively oversubscribed if you don’t want to play pool, darts etc for a living, with the occaisional fire to deal with, move along…plenty out there would take your place!

Fire service job ads are massively oversubscribed if you don’t want to play pool, darts etc for a living, with the occaisional fire to deal with, move along…plenty out there would take your place!

Sorry are you stuck in the 70’s? Its not like that anymore.

I’m more than happy with my 2wk allocated time with my family at summer. I just think that 6-7wks off is not good for anyone, be it teacher or pupil. To take a day off at he drop of a hat because you can’t be arsed to struggle in due to 2cm of snow is madness.

Sorry are you stuck in the 70’s? Its not like that anymore.

What bit?…2nd jobs? …occaisional fires?…help me out cos I know a fireman who runs a building company….and saw lots of them on the news during the strikes with 2nd jobs.

Also interviewed an individual highly placed in a local brigade who told me there were only a fraction of the number of fires to deal with there used to be….so I’m confused

Things have gone pretty badly for the Police…not seen them on strike!

I agree with dr death and bruneep – providing education to children is exactly the same as providing emergency medical and fire cover.

In fact if A&E departments can stay open 24 hours a day, then I fail to see why schools too can’t stay open 24 hours 😕

Apart from the fact that teachers are a bunch work-shy feckers of course 🙁

No, we didn’t stop 10 year olds working in mill or down pit so that they could spend their days making snowmen, get the evil little brats back to school – and bring back corporal punishment ffs.

Oh and bruneep, the reason you only get two weeks holiday is cause you do fukkall the rest of the year, as you eat, sleep and look at porn at the tax-payers expense.

And apparently in your case, you can’t even be bothered to go on strike preferring instead, to leave it to your mates to bump up your wages and taking the coward’s way out by booking a holiday instead.

BTW I’ve never heard the “we didn’t have fires in the 1970s but we have loads now” argument before 😯

GG – I once remember getting caned on a very frozen hand after spending all dinner-time playing in the snow
I can still feel the pain as I warmed up.

Made men of us though 😉

I just posted this in response to wingeing on our local paper’s website:

When it snowed before Christmas, many people were unable to get into work before 11am. Would you like your kids left standing in the playground for two hours until their teacher arrived?

Schools have to make the decision on whether or not to open very early, otherwise parents may have dropped their kids off and then set off to school. Would you like to arrive at work at 11 only to get a phone call telling you to go back to school to collect your kid? As it might take you two hours to get there, little Johnny could have spent four hours shivering and turning blue in the playground…

Yesterday turned out to be nowhere near as bad as before Christmas (were the roads gritted this time but not last time?), so many schools could probably have opened, but would you like to have made that call at 7am yesterday, when the media was full of headlines like “Snow brings morning chaos – and there’s worse to come”?

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/4093288.Snow_brings_morning_chaos___and_there_s_worse_to_come/

I haven’t really read this querulous CBI-inspired piece of whining. In our neck of the woods there was tonnes of snow, schools closed, few people went to work. Kids who would normally have been grinding into school to spend another day of the rest of their lives learning that Hitler was a bad man, osmosis is something to do with slugs and “handjob” is a naughty word spent the entire day playing, with their parents, in the snow. It looked rather good fun.

I went to work, because no-one I love wants to make snowmen and drink cocoa with me and it was the best pretext for a 2-hour ride. But I didn’t do anything much when I got here, just giggled about how much fun the ride had been and looked forward to heading home.

Snow is great, just roll with it. No-one lies on their deathbed thinking “if it wasn’t for those workshy teachers I would have spent less time with my kids”.

😀

You have’nt got a grumpy twelve year old to get out the door in the morning because his school out of the eleven in the area is the only one open.

When do the excuses end? what happens if it snows again?

Snow is great, just roll with it. No-one lies on their deathbed thinking “if it wasn’t for those workshy teachers I would have spent less time with my kids”.

Yep, my daughters were both at school and nursery yesterday and I was in College working. Looking at what I achieved yesterday and what they will have done at school, I’d rather have stayed at home and played in the snow.

My wife is a teacher. Yesterday the staff all managed to get to their small village school in the middle of nowhere, but at 10 to nine when no kids had turned up and plenty had phoned in to say they weren’t coming they decided to close. She stayed there most of the day though doing planning/sorting etc. which seems to take more of her time than the actual teaching anyway (usually she’s gone by 7.15 am, back at about 6 pm and does a couple of hours planning after tea each weeknight). On the other hand my daughter’s school just up the road in town closed from the off, but as I was helping at my son’s nursery yesterday morning (voluntarily, like many of the parents do) I took her with us and she had a nice time playing with the little kids.

Today we had more snow on the ground but a better forecast but luckily my wife’s school, daughter’s school and son’s nursery all decided early to close for the day – so we’ve all just spent two hours outside with most of the neighbours and their kids sledging down the hill at the side of the house.

PS – my wife, the teacher also pays NI and taxes. Surprised a cyclist would want to bring up the subject of hypothecated taxes given the ire that not cyclist motorists tend to heap on us for daring to use the roads with vehicles without tax disks even though we’ve all got cars at home.

“It’s snowing” is not a mere “excuse”, it’s a reason.

🙂

Keep flogging it lads.