Interesting listening to Jeremy Vine program on radio 2 and the arguments
about
"sissy" teachers and closed schools and all that (I >didn't agree with
most of the
views expressed I hasten to add).
I've worked in a school(none teaching) for the last 11 years or so and
only had 3 to
4 days off due to snow in all that time. I think the main trouble is that
most teachers
live many miles away from the school while most pupils can walk in, which
would
leave a building full of unsupervised kids. I think but I'm not sure in
that a school has
to have a minimum amount of teachers in per pupils in school.
Pete
I agree with you.
There's also the point that as more and more small local schools close,
schools nowadays tend to have larger catchment areas than a few decades ago.
So people who say they used to brave the weather to struggle to school (like
I used to in my youth in the 1960s) ain't quite taking into account the
facts that schools tend to be bigger, less local and of course we tend to
travel further to work these days too.
Dilwyn
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