To be disappointed that my children’s teachers have not come into school?

[Mixedbags]

My teenagers are at secondary school in crucial years. They have said that the last 2days many teachers have not come in due to snow and the supply teachers have not been very effective. The snow fall here and within a 60mile radius (relatives and friends all over) has been close to non existent. What example does this send to our children? Snowflakes? 🤪

Dorsetdays
Nothing to do with percentages required to run a business. It only takes ONE person to make it in to work through the same weather/travel conditions as someone who hasn’t bothered to understand it was doable.

Or they have a 4x4.
Or live just off the main road.
Or they are risk averse.

Again there are many reasons why someone could get in and many reasons why someone else couldn't you are just to blind to see.

Sorry I'm not living in the same area as my school for a reason. I'm Safeguarding Lead and have made three referrals this week - there is no way I want my professional and personal life mixing.

Boney. Ummm....in which case they’re not travelling under the SAME conditions then are they?

Think you missed the crucial part of my point there....as per.

Ps and it’s too not to

Dorsetdays

Ps and it’s too not to

On no fucking burn, but it just shows how weak your argument is.

The whole point that I and others have been making is that you can't judge their conditions by the conditions where you are.

Or did you miss that bit?

The whole point that I and others have been making is that you can't judge their conditions by the conditions where you are.
Don't be so silly boney.
Everyone knows you can totally do that, just like you can miss the point of an OP entirely and compare hypothetical strangers in hypothetical jobs knowing nothing of the hypothetical people's backgrounds in order to make some point or another about where teaching staff might choose to live.

Teachers nowadays don't have to look for things to be offended about, Dorset Days. Insults are flung in our direction every sodding day. You, for instance, have accused the teachers at the Op's school of being lazy on no evidence whatsoever. There may be a few lazy teachers out there, but believe me it's not a job you would choose if you were workshy, or over sensitive for that matter. By the way, your punctuation skills are mediocre but the teachers on here were being too polite to point that out.

I agree LJ.
But then I reflect and remind myself that most parents I work with are lovely, reasonable, not goady, don't feel entitled to comment on my private life, avoid making silly assertions and are generally nice, reasonable people who it's possible to get on with quite easily.

I just think that as long as the rules are fair across other public service (and private sector) workers then it's otherwise irrelevant.

DH works for the NHS, I work in financial services. Last year when the snow was so bad that the police said Do Not Travel, my office allowed those who couldn't work at home to be off with no penalty. If they had simply said Drive with Caution, then anyone choosing not to come in or not work at home would be docked a days pay or holiday, regardless of whether where they lived they personally deemed it unsafe. In DHs job, I'm not sure what applied as he walked to work and was then was out all day in an ambulance making sure that emergencies were dealt with. I wouldn't deem a teacher as an emergency worker and it being vital that they make it to school in dangerous conditions. Nowadays high schools use a lot of online services for course material etc. When the schools were shut last year, my exam sitting children used that facility and their notes to carry on with work. Some teachers were able to post work ridiculous on the website and could no doubt find marking or lesson prep to do.

Some of you seem to be taking things very personally on here but then perhaps, if the cap fits...

LJ. I never once said all teachers are lazy, quite the contrary in fact, I also never made comment regarding the teachers at the OP’s school but for some reason you’re insistent on trying to read something that’s not there to attempt to justify your point.

My comments were very clearly and very explicitly written in terms of comparing the SAME travel, weather, conditions etc so clearly you CAN compare those situations

But, also as I said earlier, don’t let what I actually wrote stand in the way of you trying to twist it so that you can be faux offended about something that you really didn’t need to be.

I can’t comment on your first point Boney as, to be honest, it makes no sense

Dorsetdays

thought that you said that you weren't getting personal?

But then if you don't understand my first post you either haven't read the thread, have low comprehension skills, or (as is I suspect) are just being goady.

Of course they are boney. It's a strange level of investment in how entire swathes of the population choose their house location.

Of course people have absolute personal choice on where they choose to live relative to where they work (budgets/vacancies/childcare and all other things considered).

However, they also have to accept personal responsibility for that. If the area around your place of employment means that it's dangerous to travel there then staff should absolutely not travel and the company should take the hit for that. If the area in a reasonable distance around your place of work is safe to travel in but where you live means that you feel it is unsafe for you then that is absolutely your choice and you should not be forced to travel. You do however have to take the responsibility for that and take whatever penalty is applied to you for not attending work. In a job like teaching, I would expect that the vast majority can find some kind of work to do at home. Not ideal for the pupils but the odd day here or there shouldn't make a difference to the vast majority of pupils. Pupils however are constantly being told that every absence matters and full attendance is expected so it's not unreasonable for them to feel put out when a teacher is not there and they are. The reality is that it's the cumulative effect of applied effort that brings success and that, in reality, is not affected by the occasional missed lesson.

Boney, I said your first point, not your first post i.e ‘oh no fucking burn’. Makes no sense.

That’s not ‘getting personal’, you addressed it to me. 😊

And btw, you misquote me yet again as I didn’t say anything about getting personal. I said that some of you seem to be taking this thread personally.

Not the same.