School With No Pupils Stays Open

Trampas

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-10958726

mikom

Stevie Wonder High.

PirateShampoo

mikom wrote: »

Stevie Wonder High.

What was he smoking?

OutlawPete

Ah, I know that school.

It's right next door to the pub with no beer.

ldxo15wus6fpgm

A tenner says the head deliberately avoided setting things in motion earlier to get a year's pay for doing nothing.

OutlawPete

OutlawPete wrote: »

Ah, I know that school.

It's right next door to the pub with no beer.

First thing I thought of too


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1l40SUGabg

starbelgrade

What is it with the lazy ass threads? A headline & a link is hardly what you'd call 'making an effort'.

Lando Griffin

Nobody wont be learning nothing there thats for sure.

reallyrose

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1302875/Pupils-forced-use-mobile-classrooms-City-flooded-20-000-migrants.html

MrSir

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Nobody wont be learning nothing there thats for sure.

So it's like ordinary school then?

orourkeda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-PII2rSLVo

ejmaztec

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Nobody wont be learning nothing there thats for sure.

Yeah, that'll teach em.

alwaysadub

starbelgrade wrote: »

What is it with the lazy ass threads? A headline & a link is hardly what you'd call 'making an effort'.

Yep,and makes threads worthless when you're on a mobile.

Copy and paste people please!!

Bob the Seducer

For the benefit of you mobile phone users out there;

A Carmarthenshire primary school is being told it must stay open at the cost of up to £110,000 - despite not having a single pupil.

Capel Iwan school near Newcastle Emlyn said goodbye to its last 12 children in July.But education officials say the school must be ready to open in the autumn - with a fully paid head teacher.The assembly government says the local authority must go through the correct procedures before it can be shut.

Those processes includes a lengthy statutory consultation period with people in the area, before the issue can be fully discussed by Carmarthenshire council.If there are any objections, then the whole matter must be passed to the assembly government's education minister to consider.

The whole process could take more than a year to complete.

In the meantime, it would be illegal for the school to shut - even though not a single pupil will be taught in the classrooms at Capel Iwan.

Councillor Gwynne Woolridge, who is responsible for education on the executive of Carmarthenshire council, described the situation as "unfortunate". He said: "Legally, the Welsh Assembly [Government] requires a statutory process of discussion with the governors, with the community, with the parents and with the teachers, and this is the situation that prevails.

As well as retaining its head teacher, Capel Iwan will still be paying for a school caretaker and also has a full governing body.

Carmarthenshire council said it had set aside a budget of £110,000 for the school, on the basis that it would officially remain open until at least the end of March 2011.The council said that the head teacher would remain employed by the school until the end of December, however the head teacher would be deployed to other duties within the authority during that time.

Chairman of the governors, Mark Vincent said the current situation has arisen because the school only learned at the end of the last term that five pupils who were due to return were being sent to other schools in the area.

Scuid Mhór

starbelgrade wrote: »

What is it with the lazy ass threads? A headline & a link is hardly what you'd call 'making an effort'.

it's great being able to just attack these things and expecting someone else to do the work instead of leading an example, huh?

starbelgrade

Giant Squid wrote: »

it's great being able to just attack these things and expecting someone else to do the work instead of leading an example, huh?

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