Random Irritations

[Fromtherough]

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What’s wrong with a meeting during the day? Teachers never get paid overtime so any meeting in the evening is in their time for nothing.
Same as caring for your kids 24/7 on a trip. Never given a penny extra.

Surely for the majority of parents (including those who are teachers) it would be better if meetings/parents evenings were outside of usual work hours. I’m not having a dig at teachers. Their job isn’t easy. But I’d imagine a productive meeting/parents evening would require parents to be there… Plus, as my friends who are teachers tell me, teaching is not a 9-5 type job. I’d imagine their attendance at parents evening in particular would be a requirement.

 

[cliveb]

I've probably posted this before but...
A few years ago I listened to a radio interview with a tarmac specialist.
The main theme was " why do roads wear out so quickly "
He said that he could make you a tarmac that would never wear out....but you'd be changing your tyres every 3 months....

Roads shouldn't be made from tarmac. Tarmac is a cheap, easy to lay material that is not suitable for heavy traffic. Asphalt is what roads should be made from (and my guess is that they are).
Problem of course is that pothole repairs are typically done on the cheap with tarmac, which lasts next to no time.
I'm pretty certain that the expert on the radio must have been talking about asphalt.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Sorry, but why you are funding both trips is beyond me.
They only run trips if there are enough people to make it viable.
Just say no!

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What’s wrong with a meeting during the day? Teachers never get paid overtime so any meeting in the evening is in their time for nothing.
Same as caring for your kids 24/7 on a trip. Never given a penny extra.

Your 1st point. Regardless of costs there will always be some parents who say yes,
So even with some (most) of these trips not full they go ahead anyway(at least they do at my kids school). These expensive trips are based on the Per person cost not overall cost so as long as they have the minimum number they won’t be cancelled.

Your 2nd point. Problem with meeting during the day is an issue for a lot of people getting time off work or even location. For me it’s about location I cannot physically get the time off for 3 separate parent/teacher meetings (I’m sure a lot would struggle to convince employers the same). In addition being a separated family means added distance issues, would take me a full day off work and a 2 hr drive each way for a 15min meeting, factor in doing that 3 times and that’s a lot of lost time. Fortunately the one good thing my kids school does is, parent teacher meetings via Teams video call. So both myself and my ex wife can be on video link with the teacher at a time that suits the teacher so nobody loses out.