Head talking about moving to homeschooling as staff are running out of fuel

[Lemons1571]

This is one of our local secondary schools. South England. No fuel in our town, within 30 miles, or maybe more. DH is a teacher and he has about 2-3 days worth of petrol left. The Head of his school is putting in plans to close year groups and move to homeschooling again. Is anyone else in these dire straits? AIBU to be a bit scared? We didn’t panic buy because the government said not to, and now we’re completely stuck.

So people can't car share, cycle, get public transport ???
Seriously just sort out how you are getting to work... it's what everyone else is doing!

@TikTokNutcases

What a load of fuss over a temporary inconvenience. Whatever will people do without the use of a car for a few days, max. Total overreaction from most people

You don't see non drivers panicking that they can't get to work / the shops.

Ride a bicycle. Get a train.

Can’t ride a bike.

To get a train I have to walk 3 miles in the opposite direction to get two trains that take me to a station 5 miles away from where I work.

I can then get a bus that takes me 2 miles away from work.

Then I can walk the rest of the way.

To do all of the above I have to leave the house at 6.30 and get into work about 11ish providing nothing is late.

The non drivers tend to work close to where they live or they live close to decent public transport.

Woman being interviewd on locals news-

why are youqueing for petrol madam

coz everyone else is!

theres no reaosning with stupid

Is this the new go-to solution to all problems? An unusually high level of flu? Solution: home schooling. Another ship stuck on the Suez Canal? Yep, home schooling. A smattering of snow? You guessed it..
Absolutely ludicrous.

Well you won’t be able to get taxies, they need fuel
If teachers can’t get to work I’m sure there are children who can’t get to school

Online learning seems sensible

You’ll see who got petrol, they’ll be in work at the end of the week!

I read this as in teachers are running out of energy! I feel that!

Petrol being delivered around here daily and so it changes who has some and most around here have capped it at £25 -30
My mum see someone this morning though filling gerry cans thats just not needed along with likely filled car elsewhere
I think i read about them sharing info and getting deliveries spread around

@VaccineSticker there is only a small shortage within the petrol industry in some companies , its totally panic buyers
Petrol stations reporting sold more fuel than ever
People all filling their tanks who don't usually
One person on here said how they filled there cars and kids cars who are away at uni, so yes it is down to some people
Not the average person putting in for work
I got paid fri so put in my normal £30 that does me for 2 weeks, i could of filled it up but im not a selfish twat

Jerry cans - could be for a gardener for his mower or a farmer for his machines

Not all jerry cans are for cars! Although a few people need them to rescue cars which have run out.

@jesusmaryjosephandtheweedonkey

So people can't car share, cycle, get public transport ??? Seriously just sort out how you are getting to work... it's what everyone else is doing!

I've just written on another thread that I've just checked public transport and it'll be 1hr 20 from our house to my kids school/ nursery by train (1 change) or 1hr 25 by bus (2 changes) followed by a 45 minute wait, a 44minute train journey and a 20 minute walk to my work. Meaning I'd arrive at work 3hrs 10minutes after leaving the house and 1hr 40 minutes late and have to leave 1 hour 15 minutes early to do the reverse journey to collect my kids. School is 4.2 miles from home (via motorway) and work 4.1 miles from there. So public transport is not a viable option.

@BluebellsGreenbells well a lawn can go without and farmers don't tend to go round filling jerry cans around here
Mowing a lawn is not a priority , lots of caps here which makes sense
How people can say its just normal filling up ? Ques here on friday were like never seem before and some places closed just to manage the ques but yes course thats just normal filling up to some

Do you need to get to hospital OP? Or is this a hypothetical worry?

@Lemons1571

This is one of our local secondary schools. South England. No fuel in our town, within 30 miles, or maybe more. DH is a teacher and he has about 2-3 days worth of petrol left. The Head of his school is putting in plans to close year groups and move to homeschooling again. Is anyone else in these dire straits? AIBU to be a bit scared? We didn’t panic buy because the government said not to, and now we’re completely stuck.

As a parent I would be asking why staff couldn't use public transport, walk or cycle to school

Motorway service near us have never ran out or had a line. Cost £4 extra but was an hour quicker!!!

As a parent I would be asking why staff couldn't use public transport, walk or cycle to school

The answer is probably that the public transport doesn't go in the directions needed/ connect together at the right points (particularly if they also have school or nursery drop off) or would take too long/ get them to work late/ force them to leave early, they don't have a bike or live too far away to cycle or walk. Unless you're a regular cyclist more than 4 or 5 miles each way is probably pushing it. Plus if they have young children to drop off a bike is impractical unless they have a seat or trailer for them.

'If teachers can’t get to work I’m sure there are children who can’t get to school'
If not all the kids can get to school there wont be a need for all the teachers so no need for blanket closures.
Anything and everything should be tried before throwing hands up and closing schools again.
I understand people in rural areas not being able to walk or bus, thats fair enough if lift shares are not viable.
I live in a city, one of my friends who works in a school is gagging for closures even though she could drop her own kids at breakfast club and then bus to her school, kids school 15 min walk away, bus to centre 15 mins bus to school another 15/20, just pissing me off that it seems like the easy answer thats been made acceptable by a year of closures already.
My boss expects me at work petrol or not and im by no stretch of the imagination an essential worker, essential to my own rent and bills being paid but not to wider society.
I'll be getting the bus to work at the weekend if I cant get fuel on my one day off on Friday.
Bus journey including walk at both ends will take me 3 times longer than a drive, longer on sunday but I'll do it because I cant afford not to and no petrol is just not an excuse in a big city.

PanicPrevention

I live in a city but to get my kids to school and then me to work would take just over 3 hours each way on public transport. It's that 99% of the public transport goes in to and out of the city centre, not around it. Unfortunately neither my kids school or my work are in or on the way to the city centre from our house.

Im sure lots of people have lots of excuses why they cant get to work in schools by the end of the week.
My friend doesn't have any excuses because it wont take her 3 hours to get to work in the city we live in even including getting her own kids to their school which is walking distance away.
Not representative of everyone who works in a school I understand, but the only person I've seen threatening that they wont be able to do the job they are paid to do.
Maybe we should go back to kids going to the nearest school to their house instead of having free choice that means school is an hour away even in a city.
There were fuel shortages in the 90s but we didnt miss school.

@PanicPrevention

Im sure lots of people have lots of excuses why they cant get to work in schools by the end of the week. My friend doesn't have any excuses because it wont take her 3 hours to get to work in the city we live in even including getting her own kids to their school which is walking distance away. Not representative of everyone who works in a school I understand, but the only person I've seen threatening that they wont be able to do the job they are paid to do. Maybe we should go back to kids going to the nearest school to their house instead of having free choice that means school is an hour away even in a city. There were fuel shortages in the 90s but we didnt miss school.

If the teacher is teaching remotely, they are doing the job they're paid to do.

The rest of the week I will be reliant on lifts from my parents (who have an electric car) - it will be a 30 mile round trip for them twice a day and they’re nearly 80

would you not think of getting insured in their car? I also am very nervous about the elderly driving after 1 nearly killed me years ago. I've since seen several who shouldn't be on the road at all and are an extreme hazard.

*I live near Nottingham and I got petrol after school drop off this morning without any problem and my mum and my sister have both got petrol at different petrol stations from each other and from me today without any problems either.

How can it be so different in different areas?confused*

Because where areas are more densely populated like in the south-east around london and surrounding counties there's much more demand.

Am on reserve and found no fuel anywhere close to me today.

Our local petrol station was still closed tonight..... but 2 Asda delivery vans were filling up along with a Tesco van

Staff member removed the bollards to let them in then replaced them

"If the teacher is teaching remotely, they are doing the job they're paid to do."
Does 3 power points and 3 worksheets a day count as teaching?? With minimal feedback? Really thats all teachers are paid to do?
That's all my son got last year in year 6 and that was a massive improvement on what he was getting during first lock down.
He would have 4 live lessons a day now in year 7, I wouldn't expect an 11 year old boy to be able to do that alone at home without parent supervision.
If the whole country grinds to a halt fair enough but at the moment the only people I'm seeing threatening that they wont be able to work are teachers and other school staff.

If the whole country grinds to a halt fair enough but at the moment the only people I'm seeing threatening that they wont be able to work are teachers and other school staff

Well we were kindly lent the fleet of electric vehicles from the local authority car pool to collect a number of our nurses and a couple of drs today! The LA have agreed we can have some of the every day to collect essential staff. So teachers aren't the only ones. As a hospital trust were also looking at putting staff up on hotels near by until petrol stations are less busy, hopefully it's short lived. Makes a change to covid planning though.