Work is on hold while I take sons to exams
A MOTHER has hit out at selfish rail workers who have forced her to cancel business meetings so she can take her sons to their exams.
Marta Kotlarek, 40, must clear her diary to take her youngest boy, Jacob, 16, on a 60-mile round trip for his additional maths GCSE today.
She must then repeat the journey from Flint to Colwyn Bay in North Wales for 18-yearold Michael, who sits his maths A-level on Thursday. The boys usually take a 20-minute train journey to their school.
Mrs Kotlarek said of the strikers: ‘They could have done this a week later which would have been less disruptive for children, but I don’t think there is a right time to shut down the country.’ The mother- of-two runs garden design company Genesis Gardens with her husband, Radek, 41, and has had to scrap meetings with clients.
She said: ‘By the time I have driven them to the exams I will have to sit and wait for them to finish.
‘It’s wiped out two days of business and added to their stress. The country is just recovering from Covid and they have decided to close it all down again.
‘My children have had to prepare for exams during the pandemic and now they are hit by this on their last week of exams.’