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KZNSeagull
Well-known member
I'm a teacher and was informed just before Christmas that we cannot teach contact in Rugby unless we had a RFU qualification. As no-one is our Department is suitably qualified we have taken the decision to not bother teaching it until one/all of us gets the qualification.
On the topic title, again it is down to Health & Safety issues that alot of schools are shut. Kids will be kids and if they see snow/ice they will throw it and there will be a chance of an injury, or slipping over and breaking a bone. It only takes one parent who fancies earning a quick buck to sue the school to force the school's hand.
Unfortunately it is the world we live in now, so can we stop the "it did not happen in my day" quotes as it boring and (unfortunately) we cannot turn the clock back. Back in the day there were not many specialist no win no fee personal injury solicitors - now there are 1000's of them!
The Rugby thing was a bone of contention at my son's school (in SA)last year - there was an outcry when full contact rugby was stopped for children aged 9!! The parents did not seem bothered that their child could break their neck becuase the teacher was not qualified!! I looked up on the RFU website about it and UK clubs are also not allowed to teach full contact rugby below a certain age unless there is an RFU qualified coach. I actually think that this is very sensible. But slipping over on ice or similar is another matter entirely.
It is the world we live in now and it is a sadder place for it. No it didnt happen in my day, nor probably in yours and we are poorer for that, in my opinion.
Are vaguely dangerous science experiments still allowed though??
PaoloRossiJohnson
Member
Is the main right answer, alongwith other reasons given already. When was the last time you "back in my day" merchants spent more than a week in a school? Probably when you were AT school, I should think.
What's the point in opening up the school when only a few parents will send their kids in. It's a waste of time. Last February, we opened my school (I'm the Deputy) on the first of the 2 snowy days, and out of 340 kids, about 30 turned up. They then spent 1-2 hours outside playing (as they would've done if they'd been off), then came in and either did some art activities or watched a DVD. Hardly any point in them being at school at all.
Also, many schools have to close because they cannot guarantee a lunch for the kids who have school dinners - due to the dinner staff not being in, or the lunches not being sent to the school. This is another difference from "back in the day" - due to budget cuts, more schools are 'outsourcing'/'importing' their lunches from other schools, and if that school is closed, you don't get the food sent to your school. How would you feel about that as a parent??
You moaners should come and WORK in a school for a bit, THEN you'll understand the issues. Until then, you're just as qualified to pontificate about my work, as I am about yours. So shut it.
SirDouglasLoft
New member
- Jul 4, 2008
- 6,876
Eastbourne campuses as well?
edit: Just seen the website, and possibly Tuesday. I have Wednesday off because apparently its year 11 interviews, and no teachers available. So that'll be a whole week off, three weeks before my A2 exams, ridiculous!
Good job I've done loads of revision at home.
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Until then, you're just as qualified to pontificate about my work, as I am about yours. So shut it.
As a taxpayer I pay your wages
PaoloRossiJohnson
Member
As a taxpayer I pay your wages
Very true. And I thank you very much.
But that doesn't buy you (or anyone else) any right to tell me how I should do my job, just as me buying an Albion ticket, shirt or tax disc holder doesn't give me the right to tell Gus, Tony or the shop staff how to do their jobs.
SICKASAGULL
New member
- Aug 26, 2007
- 871
If schools followed Supermarkets example and withheld pay for those living a reasonable walking distance then many more teaching staff would make the effort.
sten_super
Brain Surgeon
What the hell are you talking about? It is the management team that make the call on whether a school closes or not, not the teachers. The ability of teachers to get in is obviously a factor, but it's not as if they perform a straw poll of teachers before making the decision!
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
Blimey. That explains a lot. Madness.
Albion 4ever
Active member
- Feb 26, 2009
- 591
You obviously have not read any of the previous posts on here!!!
The main reason why schools are closed is because of the possiblity of serious injury to pupils (and staff), not necessarily because of staff not getting into work.
newhaven seagull 85
SELDOM IN NEWHAVEN
- Dec 3, 2006
- 963
Tim i think the old memory is going i remember being sent home and it must of been 1987 ish due to the snow and i only remember this because someone threatened to tell dad that i was out of school.
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Deleted User X18H
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- Thread starter
- #93
Oh shut it Pete
You're blowing my cover. Actually that was 1985 and the boiler broke down at the school nothing to do with the snow. I remember cos I shagged Ms P at her house that afternoon.
You're blowing my cover. Actually that was 1985 and the boiler broke down at the school nothing to do with the snow. I remember cos I shagged Ms P at her house that afternoon.newhaven seagull 85
SELDOM IN NEWHAVEN
- Dec 3, 2006
- 963
Oh shut it Pete
christ it must be my memory going.