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JUST AN UPDATE

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posted Monday, 21 April 2008

Just a quick update.
I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. It just feels like it sometimes.

Basically I've just been plodding along with life as it comes. Sometimes it gets just a bit monotonous and I get caught up with something to take my mind off it all. Lately that seems to be my Facebook account and playing a few quizzes.

Marjorie had a mystery illness over the weekend. She came home from school on Friday feeling sick and looking very pasty. She spent all weekend in bed feeling well and truly sorry for herself. By Sunday evening she was feeling fine and as she never actually threw up over the weekend she went back to school today.

Murron's school had a major flood overnight on thursday so when she turned up at school on Friday she was told the school was closed for the day. Luckily Ian had walked the kids to school so she caught back up with him and came home.
It must have been a nightmare for the school because they were turning away kids with their parents, hanging onto kids who had turned up alone until they could contact parents but there were kids who walk to school alone who got the word from someone else before they showed up at school who then just walked home again. There must have been quite a few working parents who were just totally unaware that their kids weren't in school.!

I do have a complaint to make to the school now though.
I understand Friday morning was a nightmare for them and they did all they could to let parents know and even had an announcement on the Local Radio to make sure all pupils were safe. There was even a quick announcement on the Bedford County Council News site, BUT that's as far as it went.
ALL weekend we trawled through the 'crappy' school website, phoned the school itself, checked the council news site for an upate, even went to the school itself at 8'oclock last night to see if a notice was on the gate letting us know if the school was open or not.
Nothing.
We could not find anything.
They didn't even leave a message on the school phones answering system. How hard could that have been?!!
We put the radio on this morning waiting for news and in the end we didn't know until we physically took Murron to school if the school was open or not.
If I was a working parent (and I hope to be one again soon) I would have been livid. Because I didn't know one way or the other I would have had to take today of work and as it turns out it would have been for nothing!

Dharma is going into hospital on Thursday to have surgery on her eyes. She may possibly not need her glasses all the time in a year or so and as she has a pretty severe squint when her glasses are off we thought we'd get this corrected now. Kids can be really cruel and her life could have been a nightmare from middle school up if she still had the squint.

OH yes!

That brings me to another point about Murron's school!!
We had all the plans sorted for Dharma and her hospital trip.
Murron and Marjorie are staying with Mum on Weds and Thurs. Mum will run them too and from school for us.
Nice simple plan............
Murron came home from school on thursday with a letter stating that there is Industrial action by some teachers and that Year 5 will be the only year affected and therefore year 5 pupils will not be able to attend school on........ you guessed it!!............. Thursday!!!

TYPICAL!

Luckily we have a large family around us locally so Murron is going round to Auntie Karen's for the day but again, what about the poor working parents, particularly after Friday's flood fiasco!

It makes me laugh, the teachers are complaining about wages. Apparently £35000 a year is not enough!
Ian would kill to make £35000 a year. I would bite someone's hand off for £35000 a year.
A teacher actually had the audacity to put a comment on the local radio websites newspage under the teacher's Strike headline as follows.......

(20/04/2008 18:03:41)
I'm a teacher who is striking on Thursday and I feel that we have every right to do so. Teaching is an all-consuming job, one we do because we love. But, if we can't buy our own homes and have a decent standard of living then our moral is going to be affected. The decision to strike isn't to be taken lightly - it's because we want CHANGE. Of course I personally feel bad for giving parents who work extra pressure - finding childcare isn't always easy - but teachers are not babysitters and we have a point to make.

Poor baby can't afford their own house!! WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD YOU SELFISH PRICK!
We are a family of 5 scraping by on just £27000 a year. Yes we'd love to own our own house and at this point we'd love to be able to afford shoes for the kids. If Ian went on strike it's a sure bet he wouldn't have his job much longer and he would then be unemployable by anyone else.  
'Teaching is an all consuming job', mmmm let's see, yes it's a tough and thankless job just like most jobs these days.
It's a job that comes with at least 12 weeks holiday to get over all the stress of that all consuming job as opposed to say only 4 weeks in any other job. GET OVER IT!!

OK, now I'm nice and angry.
That's all that's really going on for now.
I'm going to get a cup of coffee and try to calm down a bit.


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