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

I imagine, they are working on advice. And the bottoms cut so exchanges of air are done at foot level, not face !?!

I trust they’re not fire doors.

Or an early Bonfire Night Witzend! ?

Sounds to me like a mis-timed April Fool!

Surely there’s a good reason as to why the SNP is sanctioning the chopping of classroom doors? It just beggars belief.

According to my DD who is Deputy in a large (English) primary school, they received funding for air filtration (?) units from the government but that wasn’t enough for every classroom. I think the Academy Trust funded the remainder. They open windows and keep internal doors open.

Whitewavemark2

You are assuming that I hadn’t done so?

I never assume anything Whitewavemark2

There are too many people on GN waiting to jump on posters who make assumptions.

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.

You are assuming that I hadn’t done so?

Whitewavemark2

What a load of b….s

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

What a load of b….s

Surely this can't be true!

Are classroom doors not also fire doors?

Blimey this is actually a serious proposal?

What about posting your ‘head banging emoji’ *Alegrias?
Seems appropriate.
?

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?

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.”

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?

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.

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

I've never knitted socks before.

must, not much

I need a coffee.

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?

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

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

boiler suit

Although a boiler suite would be interesting too.

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.