School Strikes again

[Optimus]

Think they are taking the pee this time.kids are on October holidays just now.then as of Monday schools in Perthshire are on strike for another 2 weeks!!

An they have the cheek to send out attendance letters if you take the kids out of class time.not to mention the poor parents that have just used holidays for child care.now have to find another 10 days!

Ridiculous!

 

[DrDunc]

Just when you get them trained to do quite useful jobs on the farm, the bloody school wants them back

 

[daveydiesel1]

I must say if mine had another few years on them id love a school strike

 

[Tarw Coch]

I must say if mine had another few years on them id love a school strike

Plenty of kids would too, the fekkers never went on strike or had teacher training days when I was a kid………..cnuts

 

[cb387]

I admit I wouldn’t want their job, but most teachers I’ve ever met seem to think they work harder than anyone else. And don’t mention the long holidays, they get very excitable about that.

And as for inset days

 

[Chae1]

Think they are taking the pee this time.kids are on October holidays just now.then as of Monday schools in Perthshire are on strike for another 2 weeks!!

An they have the cheek to send out attendance letters if you take the kids out of class time.not to mention the poor parents that have just used holidays for child care.now have to find another 10 days!

Ridiculous!

Must be local to your area?

Never heard anything about it up here. My wife's a teacher.

 

[Neil MP]

Think they are taking the pee this time.kids are on October holidays just now.then as of Monday schools in Perthshire are on strike for another 2 weeks!!

An they have the cheek to send out attendance letters if you take the kids out of class time.not to mention the poor parents that have just used holidays for child care.now have to find another 10 days!

Ridiculous!

School is not a free babysitting service, if you have kids look after them yourselves.

 

[Landrover]

My daughter's school are scheduled to be on strike for a week out of every month left of the school year currently, and their union reps won't engage with the local authority until the impossible is granted for them !

 

[livestock 1]

Must be local to your area?

Never heard anything about it up here. My wife's a teacher.

I wonder if mine is too? She seems to tell me a lot of things I’m doing wrong

 

[Surgery]

Playing up for a pay rise by the twunts who voted the twunts in

 

[Landrover]

School is not a free babysitting service, if you have kids look after them yourselves.

Fair enough......BUT when the schools send out emails/letters explaining how much they will fine you for taking your children out of school for holidays and then go on strike for half of this month and then are scheduled to on strike for a 1/4 of the school year its somewhat irritating! My wife and I know lots of teachers and some of them are very good, work hard and do long hours, some are the exact opposite and one of them even said that it's the long holidays that is the attraction to the job. You get both types of people in most areas of work tho so it's not just in the education profession!

 

[DrDunc]

I refuse to be intimidated by the threatening absence letters

Did once phone the headmaster to "ask" which classes teach how to select breeding rams at auction

Their homework is always done, and they are polite and attentive when at school, so what exactly is the problem?

 

[Dave6170]

Attendance used to be a big thing, went out the window since covid and the strikes!
Some happily take their kids out of school for a weeks holiday before the actual school holidays.

 

[Optimus]

Must be local to your area?

Never heard anything about it up here. My wife's a teacher.

There going after John swinneys constituency which is north perthshire.thats why they are striking for the full 2 weeks.

 

[Vader]

Attendance used to be a big thing, went out the window since covid and the strikes!
Some happily take their kids out of school for a weeks holiday before the actual school holidays.

When I holiday can be 50% cheaper that way can you blame them??

 

[Optimus]

School is not a free babysitting service, if you have kids look after them yourselves.

No it isn't we all pay for it.( That is if you have a job).
The kids won't of been at school for pretty much the whole of October.
My daughter was in tears when we told her

 

[livestock 1]

Attendance used to be a big thing, went out the window since covid and the strikes!
Some happily take their kids out of school for a weeks holiday before the actual school holidays.

We do

 

[Dave6170]

When I holiday can be 50% cheaper that way can you blame them??

I don’t blame them at all. I’d do the same. The kids would probably learn more anyway.

 

[teslacoils]

Now I'm training to be a teacher, I am a member of a union. But this does not obligate me to strike. What it means is that I'm potentially loosing training days which is unhelpful.

With my parent hat on, my youngest had two out of three years in ks3 with *no* maths teacher. Now, half a term in to ks4, his teacher has been off for four of those weeks. Came in on wednesday - back off sick Thursday.

 

[Optimus]

it's the classroom assistants and janitors thats doing the striking this time.not teachers.