School Strikes 26th March - Invoicing the LEA

[Bexinder]

Just wanted to share what I'm doing, and I wonder if we can get some sort of campaign going. Lots of UK schools are closed due to teacher's industrial action next Wednesday 26th March. Given that we parents have absolutely no leeway when it comes to taking children out of school during term time and will be hit with heavy fines per child if we do without permission, I'm invoicing my local education authority for failing to provide education on this day. They haven't asked MY permission to allow the school to close.....Now I'm not expecting them to pay this at all, but I am wanting to cause a stink. They can close the school over the pay and pensions row, but I can't take my children out of school for a funeral.
Sorry - rant over... if anyone wants to copy the invoice, let me know and I'll post it. Thanks!

GOVE FOR PM!

Please. You need help.

Tiredemma
"GOVE FOR PM!

Please. You need help."

She doesn't need help. She just needs to stop goady posts.

perhaps she's Mrs Gove

Is there a Mrs Gove? Poor woman.

Oh yes there's a Mrs Gove

Not only is there a Mrs Gove, but there is at least one Gove Junior.

Urgggghhhhh. A mrs Gove?!

I think I just vommed a bit!

I just looked up some photos of Mrs Gove (in fact called Sarah Vine). She looks attractive in a strong real woman way. A newspaper columnist?

for the Daily Shame

She pops on under a pseudonym every now and again - she is easily spotted.

Proof that there's someone for everyone though.

I am a recently retired head teacher who occasionally makes a typo...as I did in an earlier post. I am now a governor. I worked for many years in the state sector....so yes I know many teachers and governors and have no need to lie.

Then why are you not aware that teachers are not automatically awarded an increment and post threshold haven't for a very long time?

and that final salary pensions were replaced with CARE pensions

Or the reasons teachers are allowed to strike.

Or that there's no A in Ofsted.

Sorry, but your posts don't read as if from a recent Head Teacher.

I agree...it doesn't ring true...

Recently retired head teacher? Don't make me laugh!

And actually, even pre-Threshold, incremental points are no longer automatically awarded. Younger/newer teachers are at the mercy of circumstances often beyond their control for any salary increase.

Mammadiggingdeep please stop judging them by their attractiveness, it's one thing to dislike folk for what they do and say but to pick on physical attributes cheapens and maybe negates your argument

A shame because this thread is mostly amazingly clever articulate posters posing cogent questions and rebutting ridiculousnesses easily, thank you all

Sorry for the po-face

That's what I meant - but then, a retired head would know all this.

Maybe 2little1s was just a really, really shit one?

Swearing again, feenie? Tut.

Clearly I am bringing the profession into disrepute

Someone did actually say that to me on MN, merely because I had the temerity to disagree with her. There really are some total fruit loops around.

OK, fair enough, forgettable, but can we at least have another airing of