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To Liz..... ;-)

NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO BOOK A/L ON DATES YOU WANT.

well they have given fair warning nows the time such parents should be booking leave to accommodate for the strike.

You are up late Jude!


Night night to you, hope you get to sleep now

Lizx

Dizzi did'nt actually say that teachers are a child minding service she said.....

'WHAT ABOUT PARENTS WHO HAVE EXTRA COSTS FINDING
ENEXPECTED CHILD CARE,,,,,,,'

in other words..parents will have extra costs to pay with unexpected child care....

......but as someone else says...if their child was ill they would have to find it anyways,or take time off themselves!!

jude

nite nite :-D

100% on the side of the teachers :-) :-)

jude

no but you did bring up the subject of child care with regards the teachers strike.......as it has been said it isn't the responsibility of the schools, its the parents have to find alterative child care if a school is closed due to a strike.

HAYLEY
I NEVER SAID TEACHERS ARE A CHILD MINDING SERVICE,

I agree Mildred I too support teachers 100% and Dizzi teachers and schools are not a child minding service :-D

I support our teachers 100%

And the sore point of parents paying for child care that day or losing a days pay, they have to do it if their child is ill AND they get no prior notice when this happens.So why moan when they have to take the same action when they have been given notice?

Sorry - I was not saying you did not know what they were striking over, I just thought we were going ever so slightly off topic with a subject that merits a thread all of its own.

One day, people will realise what a vital role teachers play.

Or not.

I know what they are striking over and I sincerely hope they get it.

However, that is not what teachers are striking over.

One place I worked in took on graduates only to find that they could not do the job, it looked good on paper, but alas they had to start learning again when they thought they could do the job.
It is more to do with keeping unemployment figures low than anything else.

There was a time not so long ago that only the privileged few extended their education beyond the basic 'O' & 'A' levels. But now we've moved into a world where academic ability appears to be the only option and the formal learning curve can comfortably be stretched out into students' late twenties. Academia appears to be the only option.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel revealed her blueprint for solving youth unemployment. She wants to promote the merits of Germany's dual system of schooling and work experience – a mix of classroom learning and on-the-shop-floor work experience – as the best way forward at a time when almost six million under-25s in Europe are out of work.

What she's actually talking about are apprenticeships – not just as we know them in terms of mechanics or plumbers, but in all careers our youth can learn more in a hands-on environment than they can in the lecture hall or possibly in the students' subsidised bar.

Given the calibre of many entering the jobs marketplace, the shock would be the fact that anyone would even consider them for gainful employment.

The only shock will be when they successfully find any job in the UK at the moment.

I know a few high school teachers who left before they had complete nervous breakdowns.

Not all students, but some (usually male) are arrogant, violent, and think they own the world........ they're in for a shock when they start work.

eRRolSheep, as a (retired) headteacher I have to agree with you. I am just glad I got out of it when I had the chance.

Annie