They've never had us doing this kinda in-service outta town before. This is my last year teaching so I'm not feeling that I need a car - just feeling that they are (again) planning things as poorly as possible. If it's too much trouble going to this one, I'll reconsider going to others (only two teachers per school are attending this one and another one later this month). When they've done outta town inservice before, I got some time to organise some kinda car-pooling, but this is just the 6th day of school - poor planning indeed.
Interesting fact I learned recently: our school board's got the highest number of 'official, union supported complaints' from teachers (called 'griefs' en francais) aimed at the school board in the whole province. And I thought ALL our problems stemmed from bad provincial decisions from the Conservative government that was in power up till 4 years ago. No. Seems we've had some god awful leaders in our school board too (not just our [former] pricipal, but also our superintendent - she too has recently taken a leave of absence {halleluiah}.)