School on strike

[Slowpoke]

My mate rung to say today after school everyone was given a letter to say that when we go back in two weeks, we break up after three days because of a teachers strike! :D

Anyone else got one?

[drama]

yeah i saw that on yahoo news, it said 1 day strike on the 28th april.

[Hazza]

LOL.
what you mean?
you go back for three days, then what?

[Slowpoke]

LOL.
what you mean?
you go back for three days, then what?

Broke up today, got two weeks off then before work experience we have one week at school. In that week we have Thursday and Friday off due to a teachers strike. :)

[Hazza]

Most probably every school in the country will. Its teachers strike all over?

[Jordan,]

''Around 200,000 teachers will stage a one-day strike over pay following the Government's refusal to improve a 2.45 per cent offer.''

[Florx]

Only for teachers in NUT some are not. Our school is closed because 30 teachers are striking. Also the other teachers have been told by their union not to cover classes for teachers not in. Therefore the head has decided to close the school.

[iTech]

lol.
When my school was going to close,
All the students actually went on strike. XD

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4887386.stm

[Frodo13.]

Only for teachers in NUT some are not. Our school is closed because 30 teachers are striking. Also the other teachers have been told by their union not to cover classes for teachers not in. Therefore the head has decided to close the school.

Ditto, however they want to try and keep the Sixth Form open.

[Discharge Man]

Ditto, however they want to try and keep the Sixth Form open.
My Sixth Form is taught by the teachers who teach the juniors and most are in the NUT. I'm not sure about whether we'll be closing because we have close to 120 teachers so... it depends on how many are in the NUT I guess.

Thinking about it - I think most of my teachers are in NASUWT not NUT.

[Andys]

In our school on a few of the teachers are going on strike therefore our school is staying open :(

[Jackk]

28th april? i have my drama final exam on that day i think... crap.

[StripedTiger]

LOL mint! well.. not mint cos if my school keeps the sixth form open, I'll scream. But im glad it isnt when my exams are. Cos they would have got moved forwards or something crap like that and made me scream even more lol. but 28th april ooo yay

[Plank]

Its the 24th of April not the 28th.

My school is closing on that day except to year 11, 12 and 13, which means I still have to go in. :(:@. But, the letter I got said that teachers who aren't going on strike can't cover lessons for other teacher, but the senior management still can which is why it is open for some of us.

[whoooosh]

i hope my school doesnt close
i havent heard anything
but i know my little brothers is closing

[CJW93]

lol.
When my school was going to close,
All the students actually went on strike. XD

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4887386.stm

Lol ****

[RyanDOT]

Staff on strike on 24th or 28th dunno which one.
Or different date.

[e5]

I think there's a strike but we still have to go into school or something lol

[dirrty]

its the 24th. nuff teachers in my college will be going on strike, and i have a french oral exam on that day lmao. so if it does happen, it will be moved to the monday after :D.

but atm, we dont know if college will be closed or not yet.

[Energizer]

i don't know if we have but i hope not.

[56i,]

I have still two weeks off but i also when we go back we have somedays off but only two years are staying open:eusa_danc

[Coheed&Cambria]

God i wish it was the 29th, coz then id get to play GTA IV all day :D

[kerplunkwozere]

24th april oh god my german oral gcse is that day
Its the 24th of April not the 28th.

My school is closing on that day except to year 11, 12 and 13, which means I still have to go in. :(:@. But, the letter I got said that teachers who aren't going on strike can't cover lessons for other teacher, but the senior management still can which is why it is open for some of us.

[dirrty]

24th april oh god my german oral gcse is that day
they will probs change the date to a later date, like with my french oral.

[Nereo]

NUT wot a stupid name

doesnt affect me cos I dont go to school

and also what do teachers expect? If you are in the public service section you can expect rubbish pay

[William93]

God i wish it was the 29th, coz then id get to play GTA IV all day :D

Oh how I so agree with you!

My headteacher wrote home on the last day before we broke up saying he doesn't intend to close the school, however, he might. 21st April I find out.

[emzar]

In my school yrs 7's 8's and 10's are off. While us yr 9's and yr 11's have to have revision lessons.

[Sulai]

year 11, 12 and 13 are all told to go into school.... however i got my mother to complain as
the school will be under staffed, which they are not meant to do..... meaning, i have the day off :-)

[Jakish]

My school only has one teacher who in that union, therefore, the school is open :|

[e5-repaccount]

Got a letter today. 24th of April 2008 :D Next Thursday basically.

[Immenseman]

Our school isn't on strike, around 8 teachers are off though.

[Andeeh]

Yeh my mates mum is a teacher and loads of ours are on union ;)

next thursday great!

[Polly-alyssa]

In my school, years 8, 9 and 10 are off, the rest have to go in. so luckily as im in yr10 i get a day off.

[Slowpoke]

In my school, years 8, 9 and 10 are off, the rest have to go in. so luckily as im in yr10 i get a day off.

Haha nice one! I can see why year 11 have to stay in (GCSEs) but it seems pretty harsh on the year 7s xD

[The Undertaker]

Yep. I got strike on thursday, inset day on friday & a late start tomorow (Monday). Loving it :)

[Slowpoke]

Yep. I got strike on thursday, inset day on friday & a late start tomorow (Monday). Loving it :)

I've got a late start tomorrow, strike on thursday and break up for Work Experience on friday (I'm not doing it so it's two weeks off). :)

[GoldenMerc]

26th teacher strike for more pay, All year 11's have to attend the afternoon lessons tho :(

[Slowpoke]

26th teacher strike for more pay, All year 11's have to attend the afternoon lessons tho :(

26th, what do you mean?

[alexxxxx]

im going in for a french oral exam. but that's it (and we can wear what we like.)

[Soy]

Day off on thursday aswell as tuesday for me :D

[joshuar]

We're off Thursday, even though my timetable is pretty much frees that day anyway.

Only miss like 2 lessons.

[Plank]

26th teacher strike for more pay, All year 11's have to attend the afternoon lessons tho :(


26th, what do you mean?

I think he means 24th cos 26th is a Saturday.

[Rarelime]

The lower school has the day off (year 7, 8 and 9). The upper (10 and 11) have to go in for revision lessons. Normal day for 6th Form though, but it does not impact me much as I only have one lesson on a Thursday ;).

[iCosmo]

I have to still go in on thursday but alot of teachers are on strike, there just get alot of supply teachers in.

[LOLROB]

No school for me :)

Good or what xD

[VPSwow]

My sisters school is closed due to the strike.

[luce]

Guernsey isnt effected Darn :P
Lol oh well i like school and im back tomorrow :P

[BobX]

finally teachers do something right..

[RyanDOT]

Im gonna pray that they have a longer strike :D

No school on THURSDAY :d:d:d:d

[Nereo]

I dont go to school anymore, I never had any strikes when I was at school tho, how convenient :D

[Catzsy]

Lecturers down here were on strike last Wednesday.

[Recursion]

We got Thursday off too :D

We miss my two least-favourite lessons, French (why did I pick that for GCSE? :@) and R.E. :D

[Abzii]

We wont have strikes and stuff 'cause we're an academy :(

[Frodo13.]

Sixth Form have got to go in at my school, and only one of my teachers is on strike, which means only 1 free :(

[Misawa]

Yep. All National Union of Teachers members are striking tomorrow. It's symbolic though, and NUT knows nothing will become of it.

My 3000 pupil school and Sixth Form is closing as the majority of its staff are NUT, but not completely, as AS A-Level classes for Year 12 and some Year 13 students are still running as a university conference today meant they missed today's lessons. The AS classes ran by non-NUT staff are on, but they're the only ones active on the whole site for tomorrow. As a Year 13 student, I don't come in. :eusa_clap

[Plank]

School is only open to year 11 and sixth form for me, but we dont have to wear uniform

[scott]

Omg, they obv aint having strikes in scotland, cause i need to go in :@

[DJ-Ains.T]

I get tommorow off! :) But im off on holiday for the weekend so I cant DJ :(

[Florx]

I get tomorrow off. This is the first strike in 2 decades :)

[Pazza]

We're off on thursday, and thats it.

[ToxicPaddy]

There was an announcment at our school over the tannoy today at like 5 mins before end of school, it was like "Tommorrow school is..." and everyone was like :O and then they said "Open as usual"

What a let down :(

[-=-Me-=-Me-=-]

Same here
:'(

[scott]

Its always the same, if theres ever a strike my school always works summit out that we need to go in :@

[Nemo]

Im off woot :p

[Bun]

There's a strike at my school today... Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 don't have to go in... but Year 11's do :(. At least im going to have about 3 hours rehearsing for my Drama exam which I have tomorrow :o.

[RyanDOT]

Im goin london!

[Alkaz]

The day has arrived :P!

Im going in at 11 cause my art teacher is striking now ;/ was going to go in and do my art coursework till 3rd lesson but I cant now so I am going to go to school at 11 :(

Year 11's have to go in cause its GCSE time and there is only enough supply teachers to do our lessons.

[Judge Judy]

woo the NUTters are striking klklkl

Yr 11 & 7 have to go in :D

[,Jess,]

My school was closed but they said "we went out of our way to make sure 6th formers could still come in" which sucks. But yeah I ended up having only 1 lesson and getting to go early :D.

[Scriptermone]

Yeah, strikes here aswell.

[Moh]

Why is the strike on the day im off college?

[The Undertaker]

:( Most boring strike day ever. It hailed just as i was about to walk out the door.

[Pyroka]

I agree with the teachers on this, and I know some teachers in my College are on strike. I only had one lesson today and that guys on strike so I decided to stay at home instead of going in. Teachers get paid so low for what they're doing which is giving the knowledge to under-18's who will eventullay go onto being the next generation of police officers, politicians and teachers, ironically.

It's for the sheer good of the future if you ask me. Please the teachers and they will work harder than they have done in recent years and grades will definetly go up. Put the money in and you'll see results after a few years.

[Ugawa]

Yup I had day off today due to the strike as well

XX

[Misawa]

The NUT strike is symbolic though; they know it won't change anything.

[Judge Judy]

The teachers may not get paid enough but they do have 12 weeks paid holiday, which is much more than other jobs who get only 28 days holiday.

Anyway it was raining heavily so I bet the teachers went inside striking than waiting outside the gates or something.

[Nain]

i havnt got that

'coz of something called 'nuts' or something ;[ wish our teachers were nuts

[shizzle]

Yes their is one going on.

[Misawa]

i havnt got that

'coz of something called 'nuts' or something ;[ wish our teachers were nuts

NUT - National Union of Teachers.

[Alexicles.]

Yuppy, but years 11-13 have to go in for Revision. xD

[--ss--]

Had to go in for 2 hours of Science :'(

[OmgitsAmanda]

My school didn't strike :( My friend said that it's something to do with it being an academy, so the teachers aren't allowed to strike :S but I they're wrong.

[Judge Judy]

My school didn't strike :( My friend said that it's something to do with it being an academy, so the teachers aren't allowed to strike :S but I they're wrong.

Are you in a private school, because I think that doesn't affect the strikes

[OmgitsAmanda]

Are you in a private school, because I think that doesn't affect the strikes

Nope, I go to a state school.

[Charleshi]

My Geography teacher was meant to be striking today, but he told us he didn't 'cause he had year 11, 12 and 13 classes to teach. I want a free period dammit!

[-=-Me-=-Me-=-]

no only members of NUT
(national union of teachers) are on strike
:)

[Flisker]

My school remained open because out of my WHOLE school only 3-4 teachers were in the NUT and a few thought the strike was useless so they came in as normal lmao.

[The Professor]

There were only about 18 teachers in the NUT out of about 70ish but they closed the school for everyone but years 9 and 11 because of exams. I had to be in year 11 didn't I...

[mapowell1234]

All my school was off :D, only about 20 of our teachers were not in NUT lol