School closures - fastest off the mark?

[cmck83]

How many rooms does your office have?

My school has about 60, maybe even more. Try heating all those with calor gas heaters with 35 mins notice.

[silverfox]

cmck83 you've missed the point about 35 minutes notice. The 35 minutes notice was given by the school to the parent, presumably because they were the 300th to be notified, some will have been given more notice.

The point is that in Britain cold snaps and snow are not uncommon. Schools have all year to plan for them, year after year. There is no excuse.

I'm reluctant to suggest go on a fact-finding trip to Sweden or other Arctic Circle countries because then all schools will be closed again with teachers off on another freebie. :))

[Fliss]

"Sweden or other Arctic Circle countries"? I think you'll find that very few people live within the Arctic Circle...

[silverfox]

Good point Fliss, school must have been closed due to snow, inset day, teachers' 10 week holidays, staff sickness etc the day I missed that geography class

[Ridgley]

My daughter's school, closed due to teachers that could not make it in from Kent what the school tends to do is email work to the pupils so they can do it at home.

[tomk]

I think those darnEd teachers failed you, didn't they Silverfox? You could have been so much more...

[silverfox]

Exactly tomk.

I didn't get into the right nursery so didn't get into the right primary nor the right junior school nor senior school nor university - so haven't got a Harvard MBA.

It's all the fault of work shy teachers closing schools at a whim.

[Kingy]

Otto Wrote:

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> Dulwich Hamlet said no consideration of closing as

> all children are within walking distance...

Is that the official line, or what they really believe ?

[cmck83]

>

> The point is that in Britain cold snaps and snow

> are not uncommon. Schools have all year to plan

> for them, year after year. There is no excuse.

>

As do the train companies and the bus services. If they are off how am I meant to get to work; fly?

Also, no school is going to have 100s of heaters stored away just in case a boiler breaks. It's not exactly a regular occurrence is it? I used to work in a Primark in Dublin and that had to shut down one Sunday afternoon because of a burst pipe. My boyfriend's graphics studio shut early last week because of a power failure.

It isn't just schools that shut down because of building faults and it isn't just teachers who can't get to work because of bad weather. You just have a chip on your shoulder.

[womanofdulwich]

guess what cmck 83, some of us have brought our own heaters into work! imagine that ( after a week without a boiler). we have spare ones at home in case of emergency and have leant them to our floor, as have the floor below us. just shows you what can be done with a will, anyone could have a similar plan, even a school.

[Pam50]

Sorry to come in as the sober voice of reason again, but school staff are not allowed to bring any used electrical item into school unless it has been checked and tagged by the LEA inspectors. If they did, and it caused a fire (it happens!), then they are held responsible. I'll leave the consequences of that to your imagination.

It also means that teachers cannot bring their own old Christmas lights, CD players, microwaves etc to use in their classrooms, let alone heaters!!

Whilst it might all sound fussy,it does mean that there are very strict regulations protecting our children's safety while they are in the care of a school, thank goodness.

[JohnL]

Isn't this something the Coalition want to remove - leaving decisions to be made by the head.

Teachers won't have days off either - I'd think they work from home like the rest of us.

Pam50 Wrote:

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> Sorry to come in as the sober voice of reason

> again, but school staff are not allowed to bring

> any used electrical item into school unless it has

> been checked and tagged by the LEA inspectors. If

> they did, and it caused a fire (it happens!), then

> they are held responsible. I'll leave the

> consequences of that to your imagination.

> It also means that teachers cannot bring their own

> old Christmas lights, CD players, microwaves etc

> to use in their classrooms, let alone heaters!!

> Whilst it might all sound fussy,it does mean that

> there are very strict regulations protecting our

> children's safety while they are in the care of a

> school, thank goodness.

[cmck83]

Pam50 Wrote:

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> Sorry to come in as the sober voice of reason

> again, but school staff are not allowed to bring

> any used electrical item into school unless it has

> been checked and tagged by the LEA inspectors.

Very true. We had a little fridge and a kettle in our art dept office and they made us get rid of them. :(

[cmck83]

>

> Teachers won't have days off either - I'd think

> they work from home like the rest of us.

Urm, we all did that anyway...