DH is a primary school teacher, brilliant one if you listen to the children and parents in his school. Last year a week after a brilliant Estyn (Welsh ofstead) inspection the staff were given letters saying one teacher post and ten LSA's would need to be made redundant, voluntary or otherwise. We found out eventually DH was the one teacher but due to having a brilliant union rep the school back tracked and he now works three days a week teaching science throughout the junior school (he was a biochemist before his PGCE)
I took up the extra hours working more in my job (which I had planned to anyway as DS3 was starting school). I was on the bank for our trust as my boss suggested it would be easier after having DS3, but I worked every shift asked of me in three years and had work booked up until march this year. In December he phoned and told me the next day would be my last for the foreseeable future due to funding cuts.
Yesterday DH got called into school on his day off to be handed a letter saying they would be making more redundancies in the next terms to be implemented from Sept '11. I have had enough, we have had the 6 months of hell that was Estyn/Ofstead, 6 months of worry about redundancy, I lost my job and now we have another 6 months of worry about redundancy again. What the hell do the goverment expect people like us to do? We have worked hard all our lives and now have three beautiful DS to care for. I am in tears again, it's just too much.
Sorry for the long post, I can't bore my friends AGAIN with all this shit, it's all they have heard form me for 12 months, it's just complete bollocks isn't it?