NATS postings: any discretion over postings?
Brian, you say one parent MUST be the homemaker! Who are you to comment on a family you don't even know and judge what's best for their child. Presuming your daughter is this "homemaker" what does she do between 9 and 3.30 everyday while your grandkids are at school? She could have had a mentally stimulating and rewarding morning shift in that time. My wife has ambitions outside of raising kids, does this make her a terrible and selfish mother when I have a well paid career too? She is trying to be a role model to our daughter as well as an amazing mum. Shift work is brilliant for raising kids. And as has been said already, a lot of you are a bit out of touch, the college have started taking into account where people would like to be posted. A happy trainee will be more successful than a bitter and resentful one the wrong end of the country.