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A lesson for freeloading teachers.


Byline: Maureen Messent

THE week's most gratifying picture showed a rag-bag of Staffordshire teachers taking their bags off the coach that was to have taken them to the airport.

These chancers' head, Richard Head, Richard, c.1637–c.1686, English writer. His best-known work is The English Rogue (1665), a collection of crude picaresque stories. Sequels to this work were written by Francis Kirkman.  Mercer, had arranged a four-day trip to Marbella as a "training session".

It was parental indignation that nipped this in the bud. Quite rightly, mums and dads decided the Gang of 80 could have their sessions at home at Edensor Technology College, Longton, Staffs.

Richard Mercer, who had to cancel this jolly at the last moment, has been taught a valuable lesson: people power will always beat the skiving skive  
tr.v. skived, skiv·ing, skives
To cut thin layers off (leather or rubber, for example); pare.



[Of Scandinavian origin; see skei- in Indo-European roots.]
 looking to fill their boots of freebies.
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Publication:Birmingham Mail (England)
Date:Oct 10, 2008
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