The SNP to cut off the bottom half of classroom doors!

Is this real?

I shall start knitting warm socks to send to poor Scottish pupils immediately!

Is it 1st April?

Why the bottom ?

Embarrassing! Wow!

My English grandson spends all day in a classroom with the exterior door open. Crackpot? I like to the think that the HT is doing what he can as the government isn't prepared to be serious about mitigating the risk to children.

Though Nicola might be better spending the money on air filters for classrooms...

Ventilation is, in my opinion, the most important thing for preventing spread of infection (not just covid), and many classroom windows are virtually unopenable or present a security risk when people forget to close them.

Also, schools tend to be overheated, in my experience.

When I was teaching often the first thing I did when entering a classroom was go and open a window. Actually, maybe the second thing if you count turning my nose up at the stuffiness/teenage pong.

Oh, but its in the Telegraph and the Mail, so it much be true and accurate!

In fact what we've all been told is that NS is taking a sabbatical from being FM so she can do it herself. She's bought a saw and a boiler suite and she's got a schedule for which school she's going to visit when. After she's done all the children will stand in the car park wearing see you Jimmy hats and singing Scotland the Brave.

Get a life, honestly.

boiler suit

Although a boiler suite would be interesting too.

Aw shucks! I thought it was for real. Good joke though, urms ?

Limbo dancing being added to the curriculum north of the border.

Oh, but its in the Telegraph and the Mail, so it much be true and accurate!

How can you possibly doubt it, Alegrias when it is published in these organs of the utmost honesty and integrity?

must, not much

I need a coffee.

Oh dear, I've dropped some stitches .......

I've never knitted socks before.

Surely heat (carrying germs with it) rises?

You'd need stable doors really, the warm germy air going out at the top and the cold air coming in at the bottom from the germ-ridden corridors.

It is true. Ventilation in some schools is difficult apparently so ‘as a short term measure’ this is happening. Why not just wedge the door open? At some stage new doors will have to be bought surely?

Honestly I too had to check it wasn’t All Fool’s Day!

“Willie Rennie, the former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, said: “Rather than putting an air filter in every classroom, the Education Secretary’s solution is sending a handyman round to chop up classroom doors.

“We are two years into the pandemic and three terms into this school year but only now has the Scottish Government admitted there is a problem in thousands of classrooms. Yet this could only be the tip of the iceberg.”

Meghan Gallacher, the Scottish Tories’ shadow children’s minister, said: “If this issue wasn’t so serious, you’d be hard pressed not to laugh at this crackpot SNP proposal.

“Is sawing off the bottom of classroom doors seriously Scottish Government policy to tackle the ventilation problem in classrooms?”

Michael Marra, Scottish Labour’s education spokesman, said: “The SNP have been cutting schools for years, but never quite so literally. This is a lazy solution from a government refusing to invest in what really works.”

Ms Sturgeon said: “Having adequate spaces under doors is an important way of improving airflow in some spaces where perhaps that is one of the rectifications that is needed.”

Why not just wedge the door open
That's too easy.

Why use logic when you can hit the headlines with a hair-brained scheme.

Or should that be hare-brained?

What about posting your ‘head banging emoji’ *Alegrias?
Seems appropriate.
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Blimey this is actually a serious proposal?

Surely this can't be true!

Are classroom doors not also fire doors?

What a load of b….s

Whitewavemark2

What a load of b….s

Perhaps you should direct your comment to the Scottish MP’s and First Minister ?

You are assuming that I hadn’t done so?

Don't most classrooms have windows?
Why can't they just be opened and the caretaker be given overtime to make sure they're all shut properly every afternoon?

Surely it would be better to fit an extractor fan in each classroom - it might cost more but would be a better solution.