To think the school should grit

[SnowyOwl97]

Aibu to think a primary school should grit the school grounds and paths?

In an ideal world they should, but there is no one to do it.

Around here the parents get together and do it in no time when it's really bad.

Ok, I would have thought the school care taker would do it before parents and students arriving. It was so unsafe this morning

The janitors at DC's school do it. They're all raging because they can't scoot about on the ice.

In 1995 I slipped on ice walking down the hill to my form block at secondary school and landed on my head and had to go to hospital. So yes schools should be gritted

My school doesn't even have a caretaker! Just a cleaner. We are supposed to subcontract jobs we need like leaf blowing to local businesses but of course often no one wants these little jobs. We're a relatively well funded LA school not a MAT. We cleared a lot of the playground and made sure there were clear paths to all entrances but often it is literally the teachers/TAs/office staff doing these sorts of jobs.

The last primary school I worked in had one full day of maintenance/caretaker a fortnight. Officially you were supposed to wait two weeks for a light bulb change, never mind gritting. Any snow clearance or gritting was done by staff (or parents/volunteers) coming in early. There was also a rumour that we shouldn’t do it as it was worse for the school if there was an accident, so better to leave it uncleared. We did our best, but since the council didn’t deem the road the school was on as worth gritting (they only do A roads and bus routes) it was fairly pointless.

The caretaker for our local school lives 3 miles away. If he cannot get in then nobody is going to get in . The school is accessed through a housing estate and if the roads aren't gritted the school bus (which picks up children from outlying villages) isn't going to get there either.

I refused to take my son back into primary school one year until the path directly outside the gate was gritted. The school is on a hill and parents and children were going over all over the place! It was a big school with 2 caretakers and the whole inside the gate was clear, so felt really "not my problem" to not bother gritting an extra 18sqm or something! One girl slipped right onto cocksicks and grandma went over helping her! Awful!

Head teacher called and actually agreed, apologised and said that as she lived outside the area she didn't realise how bad it actually was. It was nice to be acknowledged and the school sorted it the next morning! Sometimes you have to be a bit of a Karen (politely) to get things sorted.

Legally, yes they should.
Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957, Section 2.
This only applies to the paths on the property though. The pavement outside doesn't come under this. But it's common sense to put some grit down on the pavements at the entrance to the school as well.

There's no money for paper, never mind gritting

Are you going to pay for it? Some schools can’t afford full time caretakers

Who do you expect to pay for the grit when schools are struggling to pay for heating and staff

They do have one, I think they live in the house next to the school

They cannot grit any paths surrounding the site as they could become liable should someone slip. I asked at our school once.

It's up to the council to grit paths and roads.

I’d love the school I work at to grit, however we don’t have a caretaker - we literally can’t afford one so if it’s prepare for lessons or grit the paths then the paths don’t get done.

It's a massive job for one person even if the school does have a caretaker.

We've got 3 paths at work and a grit storage, so the staff get together and try to do it but it's a big job.

Ok, I would have thought the school care taker would do it before parents and students arriving. It was so unsafe this morning
I live in a hill, I am the only person that grits the road from my property along an going road and down the steep hill to the main road - I must grit the road for over 100 other homes

So my question is - why don’t you do it? Or are you too busy?

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Around here the parents get together and do it

Brilliant idea. Over to you, OP. Get a working party organised.

Are you volunteering to get up to school and grit the yard?

Does your employer expect you to grit your work? Why should teachers do it?

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Enough money for pens or glue sticks let alone a janitor and expecting teachers to get to work early enough to grit the entire yard and car park.

Ideally. Do you grit your path?

@SnowyOwl97 doesn’t mean they are full time

Wrong.
They're liable if they do not grit. It's widely misunderstood, but it's clear-cut in law.

I walked past our local primary school this morning (it was closed).

The path outside school was treacherous.

On the opposite side of the road is a cricket club. Volunteers went down on Sunday morning to shift the snow so they could open the gates/ get up the drive so the bar could open ((no sports being played obv).

But nobody thought to cross the road & clear a path for school

Actually felt really sorry for the head who pulled up as we walked past.

How many here are saying that teachers should be the ones gritting?