That really sucks: No one wants to be a lollipop man so school gets speed bumps
A VILLAGE school has had to resort to traffic-calming speed bumps after a doomed four-year battle to recruit a lollipop man or woman.
No-one has applied since the vacancy was advertised in January 2011
Since first advertising the role in January 2011 with a campaign involving posters, parents handing out flyers and notices on the council website and in the jobcentre not one person from the community applied.
The paid, part-time position was to man the crossing outside 50-pupil Broughton Moor Primary School in Allerdale, Cumbria.
The ideal candidate would have been a parent, an unskilled worker or pensioner wanting extra cash for one hour’s work, five days a week.
Now the council has finally scrapped the permanently vacant post.
Yesterday stunned former parent at the school Jay Hughes, 43, said: “Some Britons are simply workshy. That’s why people flood here to work as we can be just plain lazy.”
A current parent – who asked not to be named – said: “It’s very sad no one could be bothered. The children would really have loved a lollipop man or woman everyday outside the school gates. They’ve put in speed bumps but it isn’t the same.”
A source at Cumbria County Council said: “It was very disappointing. We tried as long as we could to fill the post.”
Some councils across the UK admit it is a struggle to fill vacancies for their lollipop men and women who say their job can be made unbearable by rude motorists, parents and abusive teenage children.