No snow here in Austin, TX yet. Expecting a high of 18C or 19C... Dave
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Dilwyn Jones <dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk>wrote: > 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 > ______________________________**_________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/**smsqe.htm<http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm> > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
