my heart bleeds...they chose to be in that profession..

All high schools in Warrington are shut again tommorow!!!

I wasn't commenting on teachers, I was commenting on people criticising teachers when they couldn't do the job.

I've read most of the bile you've had to say about teachers and I don't care what you've read in the papers or heard from your mate down the pub, the majority of what you've said is misguided nonsense.

Firstly I'm married to a teacher (I know, I can't wait for her to retire so I can use all that money to buy a penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park) She gets up at 6am and travels 20 miles to her South Warrington school. A typical day will see her return for about 6.30pm. She then spends roughly 2 hours marking books, planning lessons and writing out individual performance plans, she typically does this 3 nights a week and I don't care how hard you find it to believe but teachers do work when they're on annual leave. My wife teaches Key Stage 2 and last year had to mark 90 SATS papers in a week.

Secondly and most importantly it is NOT the teachers that decide to close the school, it's the LEA. Another important thing is that from university, teachers are now actively told at university to apply for jobs away from their
respective towns as a preference which means travel. If a teacher cannot make a safe commute and they're are not enough teachers to teach then the
school has to shut. Simples.

You have no right to personally lambast teachers when A) they are not responsible for the closures and B) you have an uneducated opinion of the what the teaching role involves.

Talking about bile,that's what i'm reading now.Did i say teachers were to blame for the closures?You'll see if your little brain can scroll to my previous posts that nowhere have i said they are to blame although you won't see many of them complaining.Secondly do you know how many people are on minimum wage working just as hard as your teacher wife?Lastly £32k IS the average wage of a classroom teacher + if you say it's not then the BBC website which is probably the worlds most respected news organisation is giving out false information so when your head has come out of your bottom you might realise that for a nice salary + the benefits that the job comes with,life as a teacher compared with alot of people isn't so bad afterall.

I am familiar with the BBC, I have to be when they pay me my salary every month but thank you for the concern

I refer to your second and third post, granted you don't directly accuse teachers for the closure but you do start slating them with comments that are inaccurate and unfair.

You're probably right about 32k being the average salary although it does take several years from qualifying as a teacher to get to that level of salaray (they start on about 20k outside of London) and there's a lot more pressure on new teachers to perform.

Anywho, back to the snow.....

I'm glad you didn't get stuck in the snow because I'd pity the others who got stranded with you and had to listen to you drone on and on and on and on and on.

I'd rather be stuck with him than listen to some of the guff you come out with Paul.

Isn't that mouthwash?

Kevin Sinfield - care to let us in on where you got fed all the crap from?

Or is he still signing "Mr Inside Knowledge" my arris

No but this is what your looking for......

Apologies for maintaining this off thread orientation. But I feel compelled to comment on the amount of people who defend partners/ spouses/relatives who teach.

Rather confusing.

Do you think they are defending them, or just commenting from a knowledgeable perspective?

I'd defend you monkeyman, to the hilt. I won't have a bad word said about my getdownmonkeyman.

In the manner it has been delivered, I would say defending.