Is your DC 's school affected by flight disruption?

[violetqueen]

DC's school has closed to lower years because 20% of staff stuck abroad .
A level classes being covered by supply who babysit while class revise on own.
Existing ,already overstretched and exhausted staff ( who ran Easter revision classes ) covering for colleagues.
Three other local ( London ) schools with heads stuck abroad ,two more also with partial closure .
What's the picture elsewhere ?

Wow! 20%?

We have the headteacher, ds's teacher and someone else all stuck abroad.

I'm just that they get to go to all these exotic places in the first place.

About 3 of his class are also stuck abroad visiting family.

South Yorks School. 20 staff stranded abroad, some in far flung places been told they probably won't be back before May . Plus three who managed to break bones during the hols!

Staff informed that if they didn't cover missing colleagues' lessons then the missing colleagues won't get paid - that's a nice choice.

Y7 and 8 both having days off this week

Should clarify. That's 20 teaching staff. We're also missing kitchen staff, support staff, caretakers, TA's..

Don't know for the whole school but 2 canadian teachers stuck in Canada and one in India on her honeymoon. Another one managed to get home by boat and train

are there flights today? Does anyone know?

We had Easter hols the week before otherwise dh would have been a lot down. We would have been stuck in NYC ...

Robino - noooo !
"Staff informed that if they didn't cover missing colleagues' lessons then the missing colleagues won't get paid"
That's shocking !
Two questions - is the school an Academy ?

• what does the union say ?

Fliight - yes British airports open today .
But it's going to take time for stranded to return.
Think booked passengers not being bumped in favour of carrying stranded .

Violetqueen - Not an academy. Joint union meeting apparently (wasn't there, work part-time) said no (no surprise there then!) , hence y7 and 8 being sent home so staff who were present could be freed up from lower school classes to cover others. Not sure what they're doing about pay for those stranded though.

At ds's junior school 6 out of their 12 teachers are stuck abroad. Ds was looking forward to a morning in the hall with his whole year (nearly 90 of them) being taught by the Headteacher!