If you keep panic buying fuel you'll be homeschooling again!😆

[FishesWithWishes]

Teachers need to teach in schools don't they?

@noblegiraffe

I just checked google maps, it would be a 2 hour 52 min walk for me through farmland which I'm not doing should I run out of fuel.

4 hours 39 minutes for us!

Well, you're clearly totally unorganised and uncommitted

Yep, although a poster upthread was offering piggy backs which might make it a bit easier for me, although probably slower.

It's a pretty hilly walk too, I hope they're fit.

@AmericanTie

Teachers need it more though. How on earth do you expect them to get around the classroom with no diesel? Madness!

@Patapouf

lots of teachers also live within walking distance of school and have access to public transport.

I'm not sure another kind of panic mongering is helpful? I think the worst of the petrol queuing non-sense is probably over by now.

@Patapouf

lots of teachers also live within walking distance of school and have access to public transport.

LOL, no they don't!

2 teacher household here, with children in 2 different childcare settings both without public transport links.

We had a very real conversation this morning about which car to use to go for a medical appointment, trying to ensure we have enough fuel in both cars to see us through the next few days.

The whole thing is madness.

@Patapouf

lots of teachers also live within walking distance of school and have access to public transport.

I'm not sure another kind of panic mongering is helpful? I think the worst of the petrol queuing non-sense is probably over by now.

Lots of teachers deliberately live nowhere near school and a lot of bus services are being cut due to their own driver shortage.

We've had an email that our school bus route won't be running tomorrow due to lack of fuel followed by the dreaded please look on google classroom for the work.....

@noblegiraffe

I just checked google maps, it would be a 2 hour 52 min walk for me through farmland which I'm not doing should I run out of fuel.

I checked too. I can walk for 3 hours, or how about an 8 hour journey by bus and train? It only takes me 50 minutes the wrong way and has a 3 hour wait, which I think is entirely reasonable.

I think some people on here must have never been beyond the town or city they live in, to not understand that so many schools are rural. To get a bus to my school, I would have to leave the house by 5.30am, to take two buses for nearly two hours, rather than drive for 25 mins. Not sure how my own children would get to school, once I’ve left them to wake up and I’ve already left! We are a staff of 80-odd. Two live walking distance. One drives 40 miles. Most of us drive at least 15 miles. We can’t lift share due to covid rules. Also, 90% of the kids are bussed in.

However, we have become very adept at teaching live lessons in Teams. So it would be a case of doing that. But obviously that requires the parents to be at home with their children…

@Polestarsim

Already?!

@noblegiraffe

Well, you're clearly totally unorganised and uncommitted

Yep, although a poster upthread was offering piggy backs which might make it a bit easier for me, although probably slower.

It's a pretty hilly walk too, I hope they're fit.

I hope they're prepared to help here too.

For DH, it would be a 7.5 hour walk and they'd need to help him carrying all his plastering kit too

I would say the vast minority of teachers at my secondary school live within walking distance! I don’t, it also isn’t cycle—able. My 20 min drive would turn into a bus to the train station (10-15 mins), then a train back in the opposite direction to where I need to go because the town I need to get to isn’t on the train line of where I live (15 min train), then another train to the town I work in (20 mins), then a bus from the town centre to the school (15 mins). With all the waiting inbetween that would be probably nearly a 2 hour journey each way on top of a 10 hour school day. Sorry but you can’t ask people to do that unless it’s a one off!

I checked too. I can walk for 3 hours, or how about an 8 hour journey by bus and train? It only takes me 50 minutes the wrong way and has a 3 hour wait, which I think is entirely reasonable

I've just checked - DH was meant to be visiting a distant site for work this week. Google has just told me that if he walked it would take an estimated 52 hours!

(and I assume that's continuous - you'd need to add on breaks food and sleep)

He's rearranged, unsurpringly

@Polestarsim

We've had an email that our school bus route won't be running tomorrow due to lack of fuel followed by the dreaded please look on google classroom for the work.....

I suspect many other schools will end up having to do the same as the week goes on.

Well, how very remiss of him!!

@Patapouf

lots of teachers also live within walking distance of school and have access to public transport.

I'm not sure another kind of panic mongering is helpful? I think the worst of the petrol queuing non-sense is probably over by now.

I think this totally depends on the area. In my school there are around 90 teaching staff and I am aware of three who live within walking distance.

I live a 24 minute drive away but public transport would take me about 1.5 hours. However…when I return to work next month (currently on maternity) I would have to drop my 11 month son at nursery on the way…in the car that is a five minute detour but on the bus it’s another 30 mins! Public transport here is atrocious! Also add to that the fact that they don’t start until I’d already be at work so I’d be at least 1.5 hours late!

This isn’t that uncommon…I’m secondary and the vast majority of us don’t want to live too near the pupils as it’s all too easy for them to find out where we live.

Slightly off the topic but is it just me who is a bit at the slightly goady "you'll be homeschooling again, idiots!" Rhetoric that's all over social media?

We've not had any "you'll be sewing your own leg back on!" Or "you'll be saving yourself from your own burning house!" From other essential workers? (Maybe there is and I've not seen it).

Obviously goes without saying that the idiots panic buying fuel are, well, idiots.

I thought my 2 hour route each way was bad then I saw other PPs that would have to walk got 8 hours etc 😂

My DM is going to take my DSis tomorrow, so my BIL (who didn't fill up his car) can take DSis's. DM said she thought she was safely past the school runs now we're all in our 20s/30s.

@Peaplant20

I thought my 2 hour route each way was bad then I saw other PPs that would have to walk got 8 hours etc 😂

Surprisingly, if DH can't get fuel, he won't be making the 7.5 hour journey on foot with his cement mixer on his back

Ive enough until Wednesday, I’m trying to arrange someone to pick me up from the train station on the other end so that I can just drive to the train station near me. If I run out and just rely on public transport I can’t get there until 10am and it would cost too much for me to do it more than a couple of days a week.

Without being picked up and driving this end it’s an extra £10 a day in taxis!

I just checked my walk time: 2 hrs 38. And that's 3 miles on a windy B road with no footpath. Sod that. It'd be the 4 hr
07 min alternative route with actual paths!

@Polestarsim that's crap from the bus company..there is no shortage..BP told the government there would be to force a change in visa regulations

The empty pumps are just being caused by people hearing one word and panicking

I can't see how that would affect the buses..they have their own pumps..no panic draining theirs . Their deliveries will be normal..

Without being picked up and driving this end it’s an extra £10 a day in taxis!

£20, I didn’t think about the return journey

I teach 45 mins drive away, rural area. I don’t actually pass a single petrol station on that drive.

I had no idea about the petrol situation on Friday until well into the evening ( mad six period day with before school meeting and crisis type meeting with one of my tutees who is having a very difficult time after school. It took me 90 mins to get home on Fri evening because of the traffic and it wasn’t until i went on fb after tea that i saw people moaning the local petrol station was closed.)
I have been nowhere over the weekend other than an unsuccessful foray petrol hunting. I have enough to last until Wednesday probably.

For the London centric posters newsflash most of the country has no/shit public transport. I could walk 3 miles to nearest train station, train to big city, then another train out to the nearest town to my school then another 2 mile walk from there, but the first train in the morning from my nearest station would end up with me arriving at school by 10am at the earliest.
The local taxi firms ( 3 taxis total) will not do morning runs.