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Unfair: Regarding your editorial, headlined 'Teaching or child care?'
This unbalanced article implies and perpetuates the ridiculous urban myth that schools close in poor weather to give staff a day off.
Instead, you suggest parents should take their children around frozen streets, dodging sliding vehicles and icy pavements, to sit in a cold room so their parents can go to work.
That is irresponsible and as poorly informed as the comment that there is some tacit agreement between parents and teachers that the latter are some form of glorified babysitting service.
I can assure you this is not the case.
If that is how you portray the profession, it's little wonder aspirations are so difficult to raise in this area.
It's this sort of sly finger-pointing that, judging by the reading age and tone of your articles, must appeal to the less-informed sections of your readership.
If teachers should be risking injury to themselves and their students to get buildings open, you should give them the decency of balanced editorials.
I am more than happy to provide my teacher-perspective on any educational issues you bring to the attention of the Staffordshire public.
In the meantime, however, I suppose teacher-bashing gives somebody else a bit of break.
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