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Despicable Anti Dementors

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Mascotte · 15/05/2020 20:41

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LivinLaVidaLoki · 16/05/2020 19:24

I just keep feeling angrier and angrier about the reluctance to open schools.
I have seen the effect this is having on our children and it makes me so fucking angry that no one gives a shiny shit.
I have a governors meeting next week to discuss this and I will be fighting tooth and nail to find a way to make it work for our school.
Tbh we all know if the govt opened pubs and restaurants on the 1st June, all these crowing about the schools would be there by opening.

AlexisCarringtonColbyDexter · 16/05/2020 19:24

I'd also happily work in a school now, no problem at all.
I'm working in care now so it would probably be less stressful!

thenightsky · 16/05/2020 19:28

Me and DH have just been on a murder spree. Four garden centres, including B&Q. Not a single tray of blue trailing lobelia to be found Sad

Little ice cream hut was open in the car park of one - so we went there too.

It was a massacre, I tell you.

OutwardBound2016 · 16/05/2020 19:28

Golden I was thinking the same, I have a DBS from school and spend a lot of time there as a helper, I would be more than happy to step in to be an extra pair of hands.

DominaShantotto · 16/05/2020 19:28

I actually told school if they were struggling finding supply that if they got stuck I had DBS and QTS and experience and I'd go in unpaid if needs be. The offer still (semi cos I'm fucked off with the head) stands.

BarkandCheese · 16/05/2020 19:28

I’d volunteer to work in a school too. I’m rubbish with small children though, but I’d happily help to keep things clean or work in the kitchen.

SomewhereEast · 16/05/2020 19:32

I'm currently SAHPing & have actually just emailed my head about volunteering. I don't have relevant qualifications but it occurred to me they might have shielding cleaners or lunchtime supervisors I could cover for. Our school has a fair few kids from disadvantaged backgrounds & it would be so good for them to get it open.

User8008135 · 16/05/2020 19:34

There's a good medium to be had. Thankfully most people seem normal enough, respecting social distancing and exercising caution while still living life and working where they can.

There's a couple of people who want fuller lockdown that i know which, if they spoke to my friends abroad they would decidedly NOT want. They are whipping themselves up, irradiation of post and that. However also is the other extreme, I've deleted a couple on fb who've gone out when supposed to be isolating to peruse tesco because 'they'll be ok, it is survival of the fitness'. So a balance, too much one way or other lies madness. Or cuntiness in the couples case.

Drivingdownthe101 · 16/05/2020 19:37

Good god. Don’t look at the To be worried about winter thread in AIBU. Dementor porn.

HelloMissus · 16/05/2020 19:39

I’ve been losing the plot with dementors all day.
We agreed to take in 2 foster kids that we’ve had before. But neither school nor social services give a shit. Apparently the only thing happening in the whole world is COVID.
The SLT at their school told me I need to ‘understand the severity of the global picture.’
Fuck off you patronising wanker!

DominaShantotto · 16/05/2020 19:46

Trouble is now they can paint it as the Britain First and Katie Hopkins crowd behind anyone objecting to any of this and that’s awfully convenient for them isn’t it?

TheAdventuresoftheWishingChair · 16/05/2020 19:50

Pah. I literally saw an article today in the Mail which is supposedly about people with the virus DELIBERATELY being sent back into care homes. Actually it was all 'some patients weren't tested before being sent back from hospital' (which tbh is pretty shit but not the same as people deliberately being sent back ill - they were asymptomatic if they were carrying it). The insinuation was said patients made others ill who then died except the article had to stick in in a round about way that that was what they were guessing had happened. In reality they don't know a staff member wasn't asymptomatic.

Cue an interview with someone saying their 90 year old relative was one of the people who had died and it hadn't been their time and they might have lived years more. Ok, maybe. But if you haven't got your head around the fact your 90 year old relative in a care home might pass away, you're not doing yourself many favours. Sad

The Mail also put up a photo of a beach car park FULL OF CARS and seem to have written about murderers flocking to beaches, but also had to concede road traffic is only up 3%. They so wanted to be outraged and froth. My drive to my friend was blissful the other day with not many cars. I enjoyed it a lot.

HelloMissus Shock

Bollss · 16/05/2020 19:52

I'd volunteer to help in a school or a nursery in a heartbeat. I'm young and mostly healthy and I wouldn't be worried about getting close to children. I'm not a teacher but I am kind and I wouldn't protest if they needed a little reassuring cuddle.

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito · 16/05/2020 19:55

I'm considering offering my services - I'm secondary qualified but reckon I could do a TA role in primary. It would depend on being able to drop the one year old with my mum though. I'd happily give two days a week for free if it helped get things going. Oh, and I'm no longer in a teaching union which might help.

MinesaPinot · 16/05/2020 19:59

Dear God I've just read the Winter thread. How do these people live in real life? All so set in their opinions and what will happen - the poster who wrote that we'd lock down in October/November until February Shock

The truth is no-one knows what will happen. We could have a second wave but we might (hopefully) be ok. I couldn't stand the thought of having this over Christmas.

DominaShantotto · 16/05/2020 20:02

Oh there’s a wild one on our local fb group - took the effort to go to the park specifically to photograph and shame the anti lockdown protestors, so I click through onto her profile and it seems to be her new hobby of late - touring parks and open spaces to photograph and post lockdown shaming.

Teacher apparently- obviously hard with those 12 hour days

Mrsfrumble · 16/05/2020 20:04

Apparently the only thing happening in the whole world is COVID.

Yes! “Wellbeing” as a concept has been reduced to not having COVID. That’s it. It’s so frustrating isn’t it HelloMissus. If DS’s speech therapy is important, surely he shouldn’t be expected to go without for potentially 6 months.

bookworm14 · 16/05/2020 20:05

This is a very good article. www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/does-wanting-child-go-back-school-make-bad-parent/

MagdaS · 16/05/2020 20:05

I do worry occasionally about further lockdown over winter - it would be massively shit - but then think we have no idea what might happen and there is no need to torture myself. I'm the sort of person who is sick of Christmas by Boxing Day and gagging to get back to work on 2 January.

MrsWombat · 16/05/2020 20:05

I work in a school and I'm happy to go back. The only thing worrying me is having to interact with the parents!

Drivingdownthe101 · 16/05/2020 20:06

Yeah, the thought of lockdown over winter is shit. But why torture yourself about it in May?!

Nihiloxica · 16/05/2020 20:09

Well he won't be able to speak if he's DEAD!

Sorry, forgot myself for a minute there.

Yes, things like speech therapy being suspended for a few weeks seemed not ideal, but reasonable in the circumstances.

Now we're apparently talking about MONTHS of people missing all kinds of things that matter.

The shift in timescale requires new consent for this. This is not what we were sold when lockdown was mooted.

At the time I was worried that it would be too hard to reverse some of these changes and some people would like them too much.

I really wish I had been wrong.

Pinkflipflop85 · 16/05/2020 20:11

I'm getting really fucked off with the school dementors. Some of them are spreading such complete and utter shit.

Just seen one one facebook claiming that children won't have playtime....erm, YES THEY FUCKING WILL

HesterShaw1 · 16/05/2020 20:11

Yikes. Very much hoping that we on this thread won't be tarred with the same brush as Piers Corbyn. Those demonstrations seemed to attract an...ahem... eccentric range of people
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/16/piers-corbyn-among-those-held-in-coronavirus-lockdown-protests

ilovecardigans · 16/05/2020 20:13

Don’t look at the To be worried about winter thread in AIBU.

Fuck me - we haven't even had summer yet! Worrying your life away will do you no good.

Thanks for the posts re living wills. What I'm hoping will be in place should it ever come to it is a living will which would allow my nearest and dearest to convey me to Dignitas without fear of prosecution should I be unable to manage in my own home. My greatest fear is of being a burden.

I live in a coastal town and read this lovely recent comment on the local Coronavirus FB Forum. 'A go along the pier every day have done this for along time n the amount of folk with backpacks on is unreal, n don't tell me you need a backpack for a walk .'[sic]

Well blow me! When I was training for the Kiltwalk I always took a small backpack (food, water, house keys, mobile phone, bog roll etc.). Bad me. BAD!