Just shut the bloody school!?!

[Chikeletta]

1 class open in the whole primary school, NOT Year 6. For the sixth time this year, my DC has to go to school while most of the school is off. I'd much rather have an extra day with my DC.

Is it fair on the other years that one class has 6 days extra attendance and education. Equally, is it fair that my DC class have missed out on upto 6 extra days with fanily, benefitting from off-peak price days out and some extra downtime?

AIBU to think school should just offer 30 spaces for families who really need it, rather than having one class in!?
I know lots of parents are struggling for childcare, give them by DC place!

Maybe they can’t afford to miss out on the days wage?!

One issue I can immediately see with this data is that actually average private pay only overtakes public when you factor in bonuses.

The key word here is ‘average’. Most people who work in the private sector either do not get a bonus or get a very tiny one. BUT there is a small minority (usually in the finance sector) who get HUGE bonuses, thus pushing the average pay up.

So pay might look higher for private sector workers when you look at the averages but this is absolutely not the case for the majority of people.

This is ridiculous. I understand that this teacher's union is not striking. Good for them. Complaining that your kids have to go to school on Fridays? Why? You should be pleased that their schooling is not being disrupted.

It’s weird data as the normal way of comparing wages uses median for this reason. Mean allows the wages of footballers and bankers to distort ‘private sector’ also. They clearly out earn anyone in the public sector but are much higher paid than 99% of the private.

I can’t understand the reasoning behind it, can only conclude it’s political in some way, shame as I’d always largely trusted ons.