Did anyone else find this activity strange?
Four days closed, over 100 teachers, over 1000 able bodied students.
Yet the public are asked to come and help.
I nearly went to investigate but decided an older woman on her own up country lanes dealing with icy conditions was more of a draw.
I might have said something inappropriate to the "school bosses".
Best to stay away from controversy.
Any insights from anyone?
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Some of these teachers who supposedly couldn't get in to work no doubt managed to drive to Tesco in their 4x4s and could probably be found fell walking yesterday.
It would be helpful to hear from those involved as it's only too easy to criticise from a distance.
However I went to a boarding school where we did everything other than the cooking and the teaching. We enjoyed the challenge and it increased our selfconfidence. It possibly increased our sense of ownership so that we had pride in our environment.
Don't the Japanese schools operate similarly?
It's been a joke all this,uvhs stayed shut for a week yet other schools have remained open.Croflands Junior school remained open all week,they cleared a pathway for the kids to walk along yet they were penned in all day has they said it wasn't safe for them to play out,yet safe for them to walk to school.To makes things worst for them at break times they could sit and look out of the window and watch the infants school kids play out in the snow.So it was safe for the infants yet dangerous for the juniors
I read about a school on Walney where the head made an effort to keep open and many teachers and pupils followed suit. Why couldn't UVHS have opened for those that COULD get in ? or more accurately those that had the WILL to get in. I and my colleagues worked every day to provide a service and ,not least ,to earn a living.Too many people sat back and got paid for staying at home. I don't blame them too much because if the roads had been clear they would have had no excuse. I come back once again to the pitiful response from the Hoghways Dept. There are still rural roads with thick ice ,2 weeks after the event. It's not a shortage of salt it's a lack of will and leadership.
The clear-up request for volunteers was probably all about health & safety - they'd be happy to let you or I volunteer at our own risk, but they wouldn't dare get staff or pupils to do it on the off chance they hurt themselves and sue.
Getting the teachers to 'volunteer' probably fell mostly on deaf ears.
It's always strange how it snows much worst around the teachers houses than any where else.
When i was at school we never ever got sent home due to snow,those who traveled via bus got sent home to much health and safety now a day
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