MsAnnThrope

Not sure if this is the right place (and mods please let me know where I should put this if this is not appropriate here) but I'm looking for an A level maths tutor for my daughter - if anybody has any recommendations I would be grateful for their contact details; pm me please. Thanks

Anyone know if the paternoster lift in teh Uni Arts Tower is still working and accessible to the general public?

For 7 weeks raw sewage has been leaking into our house from Yorkshire Water's sewerage system. For 6 weeks they've been trying to do something about it. They've failed; sewage is still coming in (at between 1 and 20 litres an hour) My experience of the whole palaver is they are astonishingly inefficient and inept at handling what ought be a pretty simple case. The details would bore you but in my case it seems too many layers of management, inflexible working methods, multiple sub-contracted companies, and failure to effectively communicate between them or respond to relevant information has resulted in a very messy and no doubt very expensive failure - ongoing with no end in sight! Anyone else had or having similar problems with them?

I think they were/are to be congratulated for staying open. If you live in the catchment area it was no problem to walk to school this morning. Leave 20 mins earlier would have solved most issues of delays because of snow and your kids enjoying the walk more than usual. I can understand staffing problems causing school closures if teachers live way away and can't make it in becauseof snow. What I can't understand is closing or delaying opening schools for "travel problem" issues. Oh unless kids live way outside the catchement area like so many at Hunter's Bar Juniors these days. Sure if you're coming from Firth Park you're gonna have a travel problem. But you wouldn't have that problem if you went to a school in Firth Park

Got a text from my child's school (HB Juniors) today saying "school will open at 10 am tomorrow to allow time for pupils to travel to school safely". What's wrong with opening normally and parents getting their kids up an hour earlier if they need extra time to "travel safely"? Not a huge issue in the grand scheme of things but my child misses an hour's education because the school feels they have to make up for some other parents' inability to take responsibility for their kids.

High Storrs has impressed me with its positive approach to diversity too. That's a major reason for our kid attending. But let me assure you, similar incidents are not "very unusual". I'd think "not everyday but on the increase" would be more accurate.

Yes I could have not mentioned nationality but it is an issue. I wanted to find out more about that specific incident and describing a blatantly obvious feature of the event - i.e. that it only involved Somali kids - was highly relevant. Before you jump to any conclusions we have a kid at High Storrs, who is not English (and let me say it - not white either), is very grateful and appreciative for the education provided here in Sheffield, (paid for by my and other working people's taxes), and is both embarrassed and worried about being tarred with the same racist brush in a school where friction between gangs of kids, clearly along ethnic lines, seems to be a common occurrence - judging from the reports of kids who actually attend the school and other parents whose kids attend the school. It is an issue and ethnicity is involved - whether you like it or not.

I just heard a report from a student who was volunteering at a High Storrs parents on Monday evening, that a group of Somali teenagers had violent brawl with another group of Somalis in the corridor in front of shocked parents and pupils. Teachers who tried to intervene were abused and screamed at before finally dispersing the fighting youths. Was anybody else on the forum witness to this?

Mmm is there really an apostrophe after 2 cc's? I think not. Has this gone too far? I think so. It will stop now.

Mmm I just see I made a silly mistake spelling vacuous incorrectly with 2 cc's. Hoisted by my own petard. Is that how you spell petard?

Grahame - a quick observation on your signature, which ends like this: "Christianity adds another dimension to life while atheism leaves an empty void." What would a void be if it was not empty? But more importantly, you can't, surely, accept Christianity as valid simply because an opposing position leaves you feeling a bit empty. Fairies add another dimension to some folks' lives, but I wouldn't believe in them simply because the idea of them not existing would make my life vaccuous. A closer consideration of your "faith based" signature is needed I reckon - you clearly try and think about stuff so might as well not make silly mistakes.

Of course Chapel Walk is not haunted by ghosts - if ghosts are anything they are a merely some nerve function irregularities in some people's brains. Those who haven't had or don't have those irregularities may still believe in existence of ghosts but they are deluded - another brain malfunction.

A roundabout and a traffic cone were having a drink in a bar when a strip of green tarmac came in. The roundabout loooked away, and in hushed tones said to the traffic cone "keep well clear of that - he'll smash your face in!" "Why?" said the traffic cone, "Looks harmless enough to me" . "Yeah" said the roundabout, "but he's a cyclepath"