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Q: Classes cancelled due to pollution
So for the first time in my company's history we have had to cancel classes due to pollution. As of now I have had to cancel 5 teacher's classes tomorrow. It is still early so I imagine I will have to cancel more teacher's classes soon as the department of education continues contacting schools in Tianjin. My question is has anyone had their classes canceled due to pollution before?
EDIT: Make that 10 teacher's classes canceled.
8 years 17 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
Not because of the pollution, but other reasons as 'exams', 'students off the Campus', 'snow' and similar.
The most important is 'payment' for that. I receive full salary, despite I don't attend all classes required by Contract.
It's not my fault for 'no attendance', so I demand full salary.
At the beginning of last semester, I was present on Campus, however School scheduled my classes from Sep 7th. I received Sep. salary some 25% short. I explained to the accountant, School must pay full salary. I also told him, if I miss classes because being drunk and similar, then they can shorten my pay.
Study your Contract about it.
'Force majeure' is legal term.
icnif77:
http://mashable.com/2015/12/22/tianjin-pollution-red-alert/The city of Tianjin in China called its first ever red alert for air pollution on Monday night, joining Beijing, which called for its first two this month.
Tianjin's red alert will last from midnight Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday.
Red is the highest of four tiers in China's pollution alert system, and indicates that the levels of PM2.5 — particles small enough to get absorbed into lungs — have reached dangerously high levels. These pollutants can penetrate lungs and cause lung disease and respiratory problems, among other deadly ailments.
Northern cities of China such as Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have suffered more from pollution in part due to coal-burning power plants and factories in the region, in addition to the high volume of cars on the roads. Still air tends to keep pollutants lingering, as well.
People in Tianjin posted photos of the grey skies to their social media accounts on Tuesday, showing buildings obscured by smog and limited visibility.
Not because of the pollution, but other reasons as 'exams', 'students off the Campus', 'snow' and similar.
The most important is 'payment' for that. I receive full salary, despite I don't attend all classes required by Contract.
It's not my fault for 'no attendance', so I demand full salary.
At the beginning of last semester, I was present on Campus, however School scheduled my classes from Sep 7th. I received Sep. salary some 25% short. I explained to the accountant, School must pay full salary. I also told him, if I miss classes because being drunk and similar, then they can shorten my pay.
Study your Contract about it.
'Force majeure' is legal term.
icnif77:
http://mashable.com/2015/12/22/tianjin-pollution-red-alert/The city of Tianjin in China called its first ever red alert for air pollution on Monday night, joining Beijing, which called for its first two this month.
Tianjin's red alert will last from midnight Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday.
Red is the highest of four tiers in China's pollution alert system, and indicates that the levels of PM2.5 — particles small enough to get absorbed into lungs — have reached dangerously high levels. These pollutants can penetrate lungs and cause lung disease and respiratory problems, among other deadly ailments.
Northern cities of China such as Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have suffered more from pollution in part due to coal-burning power plants and factories in the region, in addition to the high volume of cars on the roads. Still air tends to keep pollutants lingering, as well.
People in Tianjin posted photos of the grey skies to their social media accounts on Tuesday, showing buildings obscured by smog and limited visibility.
The pollution is probably no worse than it has been before, it's just that now they need to be seen doing something about it because it's becoming more of an issue. In Beijing and surrounding areas at least. They had the Beijing marathon in something like 400 on the AQI I think, which I'm sure would be unthinkable now.
It will be interesting to see what happens. If they decide they need to start closing schools etc in other cities based on the red alert system Beijing is going by I'm sure there are cities that would be closed most of the winter which can't be an option.
If they don't close down those heavily polluted cities then people would probably start asking why not.
I just looked at the Haerbin AQI. It's 772, Beijing is 451. I haven't heard about Haerbin closing things down but I bet the people there are starting to ask why not them when Beijing is being shut down.
Lord_hanson:
I agree completely, I have seen it over 400 many times here. A lot of Chinese cities are just toxic in winter now, some all year round. Everyone says it it is worse this year but I remember people saying the same thing last year.
my wife showed me a picture taken from a plane above the cloud cover in beijing before the plane was about to land. the passenger posted it on social media and it showed all kinds of weird color clouds every where, like something from night gallery or the twilight zone.
.My luckiest break ever was when the fat controller in Tianjin wouldn't ratify my permit the day before I was to depart for that city a few years ago. By the time the fat bastard had reconsidered the next morning I had made other arrangements. Yes, that was indeedydoo my lucky day.
Luckily I was able to get my bike re-routed to Xinjiang and he remains my best friend to this very day.
