How much disruption it is causing, is arguable. All I'm saying is that by not telling the head teachers who is coming and who isn't, they are doing their best to make the disruption as serious as they can.I think you maybe over stating the damage and disruption to children's prospects for missing a couple of days of school. BBC bitesize is available if there's nothing else they can do.
Pi is far more useful to learn rather than compound interest on a credit card.
Pi is only ever used for loft extensions (I'm generalising as the only thing I can think of), but ironically you're not going to be able to afford a loft extension if you're someone that has to teach kids Pi. You'll earn more by enticing them with an overdraft at 18 when they've had their education focused on Pi rather than compound interest. They should make sociology mandatory rather than pe.
If you're ill and are a teacher who couldn't go to work that day, you'd be concerned that 28 kids would be pretty much unsupervised as teaching assistants are non existent these days, being ill means potentially putting 56 kids together in one class. Teaching assistants were a way to get the correct child/adult ratio on the cheap. A TA doesn't need to have a degree or any particular training, it's done 'in house'. The budget has been cut so much that TA's are unaffordable. It's been all over the news that there was a possibility for strike action on particular dates. To be fair I didn't need a back up plan as jnr is big enough to care for them self. How much notice do you think is acceptable?
So your strong statement about unions is based on one anecdotal story. Fair enough.
I wanted track and trace for sure. What I didnāt want was 38bn wasted on three attempts at an app when the UK could have bought one off the shelf for a fraction on the price.
Would be a lovely idea to remove all the support that MP'S enjoy while elected. Let's tell them they can't have a secretary, Spads or unpaid interns doing their leg work...remove the subsidies for travel, the attendance money and the subsidised bars and restaurants in the Commons..
no problem. I didnāt read it as blunt.
other half has dealt with various unions as HR in public sector, sadly not uncommon at the low levels.
i'd have through you'd know better... the test and trace budget was not blown on an app, it was the programme of thousands of people employed in call centres, thousands of pop up testing centres, millions of Covid lateral flow tests dished out for free and PCR tests processed. just because there was a fanfare around an app at the start, people still stick that in their mind (how very successful that idea was sold?).
Billions were wasted on Track and Trace. It was incredibly badly planned and managed. And it failed in its aim to slow down transmission of the virus.
i'm certain there was waste, there usually is, it failed its original objectives which then morphed to general testing. it just wasn't all on one app, and the public demanded action.Billions were wasted on Track and Trace. It was incredibly badly planned and managed. And it failed in its aim to slow down transmission of the virus.
Covid-19: NHS Test and Trace failed despite āeye wateringā budget, MPs conclude
Englandās covid-19 testing and tracing system failed to achieve its main objectiveāto break chains of transmission and enable people to return to a more normal lifeādespite an āeye wateringā budget of Ā£37bn (ā¬44bn; $51bn), MPs have said.1 The damning report from the House of Commons Public...www.bmj.com
Ireland had an app that worked well, and offered it to Britain who turned it down.
I have no idea how much of the 38bn was wasted, directly and indirectly, on three attempts to build the app. But this is a straw man argument. You said ādid we not want T&Tā. My answer is yes, but I didnāt want that amount of money wasted. Other nations built or bought apps and set up track and trace easily. The UK failed and spent 38bn, 20% of the NHS budget, in the process. This isnāt me saying this, itās the commons investigation committee.
Other countries did as well. And Micheal Gove famously said, as he twisted Brexit into the argument, āthere is nothing an independent UK cannot doā All the while more bodies were piling up.
But why is it acceptable that people who don't work for the government should not only get pay rises below inflation, but should also have to pay more taxes to ensure that government employees live better lives than them?
