{"id":2554,"date":"2010-06-29T22:36:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T21:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2010-06-29T22:36:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T21:36:45","slug":"last-day-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/last-day-of-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Last day of school"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cursedthing\/535571013\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/189\/535571013_0270773dfa_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cursedthing\/535571013\/\">Last Day of School!<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/cursedthing\/\">cursedthing<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Marcel&#8217;s last day of school before the summer holidays last Friday, he claims only 50-60 kids turned up (out of two thousand pupils or so).<\/p>\n<p>However, all the teachers were there.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I might be getting old and grumpy, but the teachers are paid by our taxes, so this seems to be a waste of money.<\/p>\n<p>They should either make it an in-service day, so that the teachers can use the day on something useful, enforce attendance, or start the holidays one day early.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment we pay for the teachers to do nothing, and the few kids whose parents won&#8217;t let them be off are suffering while the rest are out having a great time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Day of School! Originally uploaded by cursedthing On Marcel&#8217;s last day of school before the summer holidays last Friday, he claims only 50-60 kids turned up (out of two thousand pupils or so). However, all the teachers were there. Now, I might be getting old and grumpy, but the teachers are paid by our taxes, so this seems to be a waste of money. They should either make it an in-service day, so that the teachers can use the day on something useful, enforce attendance, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}