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

(257 Posts)
Baggs Thu 03-Feb-22 09:59:20

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.

MaizieD Thu 03-Feb-22 09:56:48

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...

Kim19 Thu 03-Feb-22 09:54:40

Embarrassing! Wow!

BBbevan Thu 03-Feb-22 09:54:10

Why the bottom ?

Ragtime Thu 03-Feb-22 09:53:22

Is it 1st April?

Callistemon21 Thu 03-Feb-22 09:52:31

Is this real?

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

Urmstongran Thu 03-Feb-22 09:46:12

Here we are 2 years into the pandemic SNP ministers are to spend £300,000 chopping the bottoms off hundreds of classroom doors in an attempt to stop the spread of Covid, under a “crackpot” plan unveiled yesterday.

Nicola Sturgeon defended the spending but Holyrood’s opposition parties lambasted the “DIY ventilation” plan as a “lazy solution”.