Anti Dementors, Assemble!

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I think I finished the last thread by accident...

I wouldn't say people are thick per se. I think people struggle with reading/comprehension more than I realised

I'm not sure, the poster stating 3% is a graduate...teacher...

The lush henna is quite messy I too started using it as other dyes started to make my scalp hurt, I think you can order from lush online now. there are some videos online of you google to see, uk.lush.com/article/how-use-henna

Aww the primary teacher just range and had a chat with DS who told her he was really missing school. She said she hoped to see him soon in the next few weeks so don't think she would have said that unless they are making moves to go back anyway

The teachers here are ringing all the parents and the children atm just for a chat and to see how it's going

I think a lot of people thrive on doom and disaster and are loving spreading it from their comfortable homes.

Interesting to hear from you in Sweden banivani!

@ThatLibraryMiss I agree entirely. Perhaps my post made it sound as if I think wholly online learning would be a good thing - so to make it clear, I really don't (the business I work for that has implemented it is in a very niche area, as I said, where online learning works well).

I just suspect that the longer teachers are having to teach online - and the longer some of them appear reluctant to do anything else - then the closer they edge to having the government suggest it as a long-term solution, at least for certain subjects. It is much cheaper. Will the government be in the mood for 'ring-fencing' money for education when the cuts come? Will the public be right behind teachers affected by cuts, if many of us have suffered through a lack of schooling for our kids?

My own kids are at two different state comprehensive schools. Their schools have done amazingly well in responding immediately and fully to the transfer to teaching online. It has been just as impressive as watching the NHS suddenly and thoroughly reorganise itself. The unions could really capitalise on what a great job teachers have done in this, and in terms of keeping schools open for key workers. Instead, their doom-mongering and obstruction looks likely to remove all goodwill.

Yes we too have high care home deaths, the median age of death here is 80 years.

However our schools did not close (except high school level and universities). There are not masses of teachers dying, there are not masses of children dying. My son plays ("ohmygod we're hanging out not pLaYInG") with friends outside pretty much every day too

Yes that sounds like here as well where the schools are open to key worker children, seem to be outside quite a bit too den building etc as we get photos on twitter regularly from the school.

Our big danger now is that people are beginning to relax, to use public transport more, congregate in bigger groups and so on

Yes my relatives in the Netherlands they say the same. Their schools go back today. She says they 'don't really get' the social distancing there.

@bookworm14
The child mental health crisis as a result of lockdown is going to be appalling.

I work in childrens services and the effect that this is having on our young people is heartbreaking.
But no one on here gives a shit about them. If you bring up mental health effects of lockdown everyone jumps on telling you that being fed up you cant go where you want is not a mental health problem.

For all the screeching about "will no one think of the children" the sad fact is, they mean their children. They couldn't give a shiny shit about any others despite their social media posturing.

My DD is y7, I really don’t understand why 7,8 and 9 seem to have been completely forgotten about in the whole get them back to school thing. I know as far as secondary goes they’re not seen as the most crucial years, but even so. As far as work goes the school have been pretty good, but it’s no substitute for actually being in school and spending time with others your own age.

The absolute best thing for DD recently has been her musical theatre group. They’re a small, local business and run by this amazing woman who’s become my friend over the years DDs been a member. They’re having zoom lessons and meet ups at least four times a week, they’re currently rehearsing to be the requisite children’s choir on a charity single, and in between the children are being set fun tasks and little competitions.

Morning all, did laugh at the welsh dragon picture earlier. DD goes to Cardiff Uni (we are in SE) and has been told by —lovely— landlord to get stuff out, and deep clean and maintain social distancing between the eight of them! Looking forward to sneaking across the border at some point.
I genuinely think I might have lost a couple of friends over this (maybe temporarily) and I haven’t even been very vocal really. People are losing their collective marbles. Maybe I have too? I can’t wait to get back to work, sensible and careful is the only way to go.
My biggest concern (cause that’s the age of my kids) is if children are going back slowly, why are the unis looking at teaching online until Xmas? Covid did not rip through Universities before lockdown like many viruses, especially considering the number of students from abroad.

We're not getting online school AT ALL. The kids were told to log onto Glow yesterday - a Scottish government education portal thing. The teachers were there in a chat room sort of environment and emailed all kids a link to an assignment. Instructions to contact them if they got stuck. No teaching. No chatting even as some of the kids started mucking about and the teacher turned off the chat function.

I know that teachers are people too (I'm the daughter of two of them, retired) and I know they're at home, possibly with their own health concerns and own children.

But at the moment, my kids have been doing fuck all since 20th March. I can help the 12 year old. Advanced Highers in Chemistry and Biology however are beyond me. It's shit and if Ms Sturgeon gets her way and they're not back to August, that's 5 months education lost.

If someone was to make a dementors head explode by using their own argument against them is it considered as a crime?......I may or may not be asking for a friend.

On the uni thing - I have a friend who works at a large uni in Glasgow and they are planning for undergrads to start in October. they are thinking of shifting their postgrad year to start in January to stagger teh number of students on campus at any one time - the postgrads would finish September rather than June and therefore be done before the next lot of undergrads starting.

Seems sensible.

Bark and cheese

That zoom group sounds ace. My DD is a musical theatre nut, too. She’s really missing that creative outlet.

I actually think the social needs of children in the age bracket you describe have been massively overlooked.

“ Sometime yes I suspect life is going to be inconvenient and different. Without a vaccine they’re not going to let international travel without the 2 week quarantine either side so who will travel? Would you risk hugging and seeing your elderly parents? How can there not be years of social distancing?”

“ Was my first dose of reality. This is going to be it for years.”

From somebody who keeps calling it “carona virus.”

I'm just waiting to see how many children's MH issues threads there is going to be on here in a few years time and the link between the posters who start them and the "I'm not letting my kids go to school until September if ever" posters. My guess is it will be pretty high.

But they’ll jump on you if you suggest that!

@LivinLaVidaLoki yes, that's exactly the response if you say anything about how kids are suffering. It's really terrible. It's opened my eyes to how people just won't see bad stuff if they don't want to.

Morning!

I ventured into some of the FB community groups this morning and the tourism dementoring is quite mad.

We are a very tourist area but it’s very difficult to get here at the moment as the required transport is very, very limited - and expensive. Nothing is open so I doubt many will bother

DD2 has massively run out of school work steam. School are setting work which she’s completing as best she can but she’s not getting anything back. A few things she didn’t understand and emailed for help but has had no reply. She has some SN and I’m no teacher so she’s struggling with it and just not getting any help from school.

She was also in the middle of some counselling for her anxiety through school. I’ve emailed several times for some online support for her but have had nothing back either

DD1 has had no contact at all. She’s year 13 so should be taking her A levels right now. She won’t have any work but school have just cut them off. I don’t know, maybe I’m unreasonable but I would have thought the occasional touching base/hope you’re OK email would have been possible

From somebody who keeps calling it “carona virus

There’s a prolific chief dementor who keeps calling it ‘clovid’

What do the naysayers want us to do. We have to get back to some kind of normality and yes to kids having issues with mental health.

I'm an oh-so-special-key worker....I work in a special school. My kids have everything from SEMH issues to severe ADHD and we've had to just throw all but the most vulnerable to the curb. Theses kids really do need structure. I wouldn't hesitate to go back to a full school full time.

I've seriously had enough.

Yay! Found you!!

I just sent my two primary aged ones to school this morning as part of the long, slow process of trying to get back to work... no wrap around care so baby steps (husband key worker, I’m essential worker - whatever the difference is)

One was joyful, the other solemn and the toddler cried. I feel such a weight off that, for one day, I am not responsible for their education and can actually do some work without my mind clogged with 100 things.

Saw the head teacher at the door, hopefully she didn’t think I was coming to murder her

I'm avoiding FB today. I'll stick with this thread only.

Well done Rumbas, hopefully they will settle soon...

I have seen on here people saying to the welsh at least their gov is 'keeping them safe' but surely it is up to us to look after ourselves at some point. Also it should be be 'careful' rather than 'alert' it is all about lack of personal responsibility again it seems.