Groundskeeper-Willy

The Blog of a Groundskeeper-Willy who is employed in a state high school in NSW. I like my job but can't live on the money $412.50 per week. {Now $428.56!} {Now $436.99!} {Now $455.27!}To live I will have to return to my trade so I have started looking, but so that my experiences in the education system are not consigned to the rubbish bin of posterity I am going to record them here.

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Not coming out of your pocket!

This is the story of some old pottery kilns.
The school had 5 kilns 2 of which were working one that needed a new electrical box and two that needed major repairs.

Willy organizes for electrician to come out and look at Kilns.

Scene: Art classroom home to 4 kilns

Teacher " these are the three that don't work " showing them to the electrician

Electrician examining Kilns "Right oh, Now I can fix the one that needs a new electrical box but the other two..." Shaking his head " Will cost about $5000 each to repair they need a total rebuild, how many kilns do you have?"

Teacher "these 4 plus 1 upstairs"

Electrician "how many do you use?"

Teacher "the 1 upstairs and the one down here that works is shared by the nightschool and us"

Electrician "so how many do you need?"

Teacher "well if you could get the one with the electrical problem going then the night school could have 1 kiln for them selves. But I would like to get all the kilns in the room working"

Electrician " it will cost about 1500 to fix the electrical box on that kiln and about $10000 to fix the other two as they will need total rebuilds, that's going to cost a lot of money"

Teacher " Well it's not coming out of your pocket" slightly offended that some one who has not been to university would question him.

Electrician "actually it is, I'm a TAXPAYER your a TAXPAYER and he's (pointing at Willy } a TAXPAYER"

Teacher " reuushfwebjcba@%$&" under his breath unused to logic

result the electrical company bought the two kilns off the school and the money went to pay for the repairs to the other kiln.

Do you wonder why Schools supposedly have no money?

Now you know.

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