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

SueDonin yes I realise that. ? but some schools genuinely do not have opening windows at all. Do you think the powers that be will realise classroom doors may prove useful in offering better ventilation? ?

You're not Nicola, are you?

Alegrias
Are you taking you ball with you ?

If this is a joy and how GN used to be, then I'm off.

See ya.

Sometimes Gransnet is informative, supportive, sometimes irritable, sometimes angry, sometimes, dare I say it, boring.

But this thread is a joy, as Gransnet used to be!
Thanks Urmstongran ?

mokryna

My DD rented several old houses in Sydney Australia. These places always had big gaps under the doors for air circulation because of the hot summers.
My ankles were always very cold because I only visited in the Australian winters.

I remember staying with a DD in an old Queenslander in July and it was perishing because the draughts came up through the gaps in the floorboards.
It was a lovely house otherwise (thankfully rented)

Wee Burney was a character in a Rab C Nesbit tv programme some years ago, which to me was decidedly not funny at all.

Be careful, JenniferEccles, Mrs Rab C Nesbitt is a Gransnetter and very lovely she is too.

Poor Wee Burney died in real life, it was very sad as he was so young.

SueDonim

Think of all the money they’ll save on only have to paint half a door, too!

Priceless !

Think of all the money they’ll save on only have to paint half a door, too!

My DD rented several old houses in Sydney Australia. These places always had big gaps under the doors for air circulation because of the hot summers.
My ankles were always very cold because I only visited in the Australian winters.

This thread has had me in stitches! The lunatic suggestion to cut doors in half was funny enough but the best bits have been watching Alegrias getting more and more indignant and cross with each post! Comedy gold Alegrias thanks for the guffaws of laughter today!

SueDonim- I agree. Some poor minion will be packing up their desk and getting ready for a posting to the back of beyond!

I’m pretty sure all classroom doors open, though, Oldbat.

JenniferEccles

I accept that you don’t find this extraordinarily silly idea laughable Alegrias2 but as you will have seen from the comments, the majority of us do!

Wee Burney was a character in a Rab C Nesbit tv programme some years ago, which to me was decidedly not funny at all.

We all differ don’t we?

Wee Burney was played by Eric Cullen, who was born with a form of dwarfism. He died aged 31 of a heart attack, after a sad life involving sexual abuse and depression.

What a good idea to use his most famous character as a way calling the FM names. What a laugh, eh? We are all different, aren't we?

Some schools have non opening windows.

I wonder if some wee government minion is this evening on their way to a new posting in the farthest reaches of the Outer Hebrides with a one-way ticket.

Don’t worry about the fire regulations, anyone. All school children are to be fitted with interlinked smoke alarms so they’ll be perfectly safe. When one goes off, they’ll all go off.

I accept that you don’t find this extraordinarily silly idea laughable Alegrias2 but as you will have seen from the comments, the majority of us do!

Wee Burney was a character in a Rab C Nesbit tv programme some years ago, which to me was decidedly not funny at all.

We all differ don’t we?

TBF fire regulations are a concern surely. If a fire breaks out in a room, once the room has been evacuated the next step is to close the door. What's the point of closing a door when the bottom has been cut off, when the smoke and possibly the fire can escape through the gap at the bottom?

going on and on about fire regulations
Well anyone who has a child or grandchild at school would want this to be gone over and over. Priority.

Aveline

Nicola speaks. Not her finest hour. Sorry Alegrias people all over the country are laughing at this idea.

Nicola doesn't speak though, does she Aveline, if you actually look at the article you posted?

I haven't been in a classroom for over 40 years. I've no idea if the teachers like to leave doors open, if they get told off for wedging them open, or if anyone thinks its a good idea to have windows open in the Highlands in the middle of winter with minus 5 degrees outside.

But money is being made available for a number of optional measures. Some will be unsuited to some situations, maybe nobody will even modify a door. But the government didn't come up with this over a plate of porridge in the morning, its the recommendation of people who know about ventilation. But the first reaction of all the opposition leaders (and Willie Rennie ) and the anti-SNP newspapers, and everyone on GN who likes to jump on a half formed anti-Nicola story, is to start mocking the idea, making things up about it, telling lies about it and going on and on about fire regulations.

Throw in a bit of name calling and we're all done.

Yes, I am annoyed.

Alegrias.

Nicola speaks. Not her finest hour. Sorry Alegrias people all over the country are laughing at this idea.

I know who Wee Burney is and it is a very sad story For anyone who cares to inform themselves of it.

Smileless2012

'You cannot be serious' !!!!! What about containing a fire?

All the children will be issued with a tartan fire extinguisher and a pair of trainers so they can run away quickly.

Smileless2012

'You cannot be serious' !!!!! What about containing a fire?

Best to open windows, really.

Simples.