School Closures

[joeluke]

Item on tonights news about school which went the extra mile to open.......teachers coming in early, clearing paths/playgrounds/carparks, walking round with buckets spreading salt etc

Good old British spirit, puts all the schools who shut without even making an effort to shame

[dave50]

If schools close during bad weather because teachers cant make get there, it begs the question how we have got to the stage where teachers work at schools sometimes 30 or more miles from their home, passing many schools on their way no doubt. Why cant we go back to the days where teachers taught local children in local schools?

[sherrardk]

Dave, because a vast number of pupils (especially secondary) are not the sort of people you want to be bumping into on your own time, I lived a good 20 miles from the last school I taught in, in a different county.