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Date: 14 January 2008 07:40:23
Please hold everyone involved in the Isle of Wight education system in your prayers. Today the council will release their decision on the total reorganisation of our schools. It will bring huge insecurity to teaching staff across the Island. To our school especially, where we know that at least two teaching jobs have to go regardless of any changes. And a change in system from three-tier to two-tier will mean that teachers like me, who are in their element teaching 9-13, will have to choose between Primary and Secondary and hope against hope to get a job there.
It's a scary and unsettling time for all. And for me personally comes just as I feel desperately ready for a time of stability.
And to add insult to injury, I have to go to the meeting where the decision is announced slap-bang in the middle of the one afternoon when I could have helped my brother finish the tiling as Smudgelet doesn't come home until 6pm on a Monday.