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Xx-Vicky-xX
Just got back from a 2 hour thing at college - alot is changing :rolleyes: we had a new principle join after xmas this year and he decided to make a hell of a lot of changes, for a start he made all the staff re-apply for their jobs with no guarentee they would get it back.
They heard about jobs i think about middle of June-ish and the news they got caused over 150 staff members to quit (before had there had been about 5 strikes over this) it was in the local paper for quite a few weeks before and after we broke up for summer becuase of this new principle dude.
Well this 2 hour thing today, we learnt that these staff members had still not been replaced and they are very understaffed right now so on a temorary basis we have two days a week off (thursday and friday) However another change this bloke made was to have us be set 2 targets per day, if by half past 4 the tasks are not completed we could be staying till like half 8 till they have been completed :rolleyes: if it then gets to half past 8 and they still are not done then we go but we are back in on saturday morning :rolleyes: if you get 3 strikes (like bad attendance and uncompleted tasks etc) then you are thrown out of the college (this includes lateness unless you have a very good reason) you still get qualifications but its not the ones you should be getting.
Each student will also be forced to sign up for enrichment (at least one - its not optional - oh how fun) and if you sign up and dont go that also counts as a strike (as it counts towards your attendance) :rolleyes:
Because of the changes we get 2 days off up till xmas when itll all change because they hope to be fully staffed by then so till then its a 3 day week because of staff and room shortage (due to building work)
We aint in again till friday then next week we aint in monday but we are in tuesday and wednesday then we are in thursday afternoon but going off site which will cost us £5 to go and do some team building stuff (including rounders - which i despise - if i wanted to play rounders id being doing sports)
So year this year is going to be so much fun :rolleyes: