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How do teachers feel about schools being open in Sept?

291 replies

Meangallery · 01/08/2020 17:40

So kid's education is to get priority, schools are to open in Sept and if infections rise the Government will close down everything else.

Will the Unions tolerate this? It feels like teachers will be on the frontline next year...

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BelleSausage · 04/08/2020 11:57

@tempnamechange98765

You obviously have a great deal of anger toward teachers. I’ve just revealed to you that I ruined my relationship with my child and my own mental health to push through with teaching and you have responded with more bitter comments about possible other teachers who have done nothing.

Thanks for emphasising that you have two kids. I’d love to have another but suffer from multiple miscarriages and then secondary infertility.

You are not the only one in the world having a tough time. Focusing you anger on one specific group of people, who are not directly involved in controlling you circumstances is not healthy.

What good is it doing you to come into these boards and slag off your teacher friends and harass us all. Especially when many posters who are teachers are outlining how stressed and sick this whole situation is making them.

GuyFawkesDay · 04/08/2020 12:02

Same here. 0.8 but worked 5 day weeks

FrippEnos · 04/08/2020 12:02

@BelleSausage

Its also worth noting that tempnamechange98765 has no children of school age so as far as I can tell they are just posting to piss posters/teachers off.

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

Aragog · 04/08/2020 12:03

I also am still working and won't be getting any time off in the summer except for unpaid leave. UNPAID.

My holiday is also UNPAID.
Although I teach and I am a qualified teacher I am employed as a HLTA currently - and as such I am paid hourly for a set umber of weeks.

In fact not only is my summer hide unpaid, the WORK I will be doing over the next 4 weeks from home to ensure everything is ready for September and that the remote home learning systems are updated and ready to go again as and hen required, will also be UNPAID.

GuyFawkesDay · 04/08/2020 12:04

Tempnamechangewhatever aldo clearly forgets teacher holidays are unpaid Grin

I'm not paid for August. And I too had to work with my own kids in tow.

BelleSausage · 04/08/2020 12:12

@FrippEnos

Good point! I had missed that bit. Astounding! I don’t think I could muster that much bile for a group of people whose lives were so unconnected with my own.

I really need to tear myself away. I’ve got to finish two units of work for Sept. I sent DD to pre-school today so I could have some quiet time to get them done. I’m paying for childcare while I do UNPAID work. Funny that.

If I’d only stuck to my paid hours over lockdown my students wouldn’t have had any work marked.

tempnamechange98765 · 04/08/2020 12:19

My eldest DC is starting reception in September, so I do have invested interests in schools opening. He's in desperate need of it. He was also in the school's nursery at the time of closure, which hasn't returned at all as I understand the need to prioritise children of legal school age.

I'm really not here to slag off teacher friends and family - these people have all been frank about their experiences, it's not a secret.

Crumpets111 · 04/08/2020 12:21

Also where I live, many pupils live rurally one the surrounding villages, and all travel in on School buses despite what bubble they are in. Defeats the whole point surely?

Ohsuchaperfectday · 04/08/2020 12:22

Sorry not read all thread, there has been too much inconsistencies in what schools and teachers have done. Some have been working normally either on line, or with key worker dc.
Some have had more workload and clearly, many have also not been working.
There have been discrepancies in only my town. Some have had work, others not and just left with a huge massive deal made out of the one phone call every week!

I don't know how or why there has been inconsistency, and why one school staff can produce weekly work and others can't?

Anyway, it's not looking promising for schools going back. I'm seeing totally opposite data about schools and spread being OK, then others saying no!

I just wish masks and visors could be introduced.
Children have been raised in war zones, in famine or with air raids and gas masks.
Is asking for masks and visors really too much for them? Just 1 sneeze or cough could infect nearly a whole stuffy small room packed with students!

No schools I know will give even basic advice to students to keep them in the same page, eg, sneeze or cough into tissue or crook of arm or into jumper! If nothing else available!!

Perhaps some public info vides should be compulsory viewing eg the one where they put luminous stuff down and let small dc do normal class, by the end all of them and the room were covered in luminous stuff like dye..

Perhaps things like that to visually show them and other teachers how easily it's spreads.
I've met more people who are bad tempered about having to take precautions and whipp masks off etc than who are concerned and want to prevent spread.

We need protecting from our colleagues too.

BelleSausage · 04/08/2020 12:27

@tempnamechange98765

Right, you do realise this is a thread for teachers to talk about how they feel about the Sept start?

How ever hard it has been for you (and I do sympathise even though you are being excessively goady) it has also been hard for other people too.

Please start your own thread in stead of coming here to jeer at all of us who are on our knees and increasingly despairing about Sept.

I have a DD starting reception September. I too want her to have a nice settled time. I can’t see that happening under the current plans.

tempnamechange98765 · 04/08/2020 12:34

Ohsuchaperfectday that is poor.

My DC's school (primary) has issued a newsletter for parents which includes exactly that - requests for sneezing and coughing into crooks of arms, as well as information on what hand washing and cleaning procedures will be in place.

Crumpets111 · 04/08/2020 13:33

@Fedup21 it's called a debate, deal with it instead of moaning

FrippEnos · 04/08/2020 13:52

Crumpets111

Your point would be valid if the posters was debating the feelings of teachers going back in Sept.

But they are not and are derailing the thread.

tempnamechange98765 · 04/08/2020 16:54

Actually one of my first replies was saying how the teachers I have spoken to all want to go back into the classroom, and full time. Even the ones who've been having an easier time of it are keen to get back to teaching their classes in person.

GuyFawkesDay · 04/08/2020 19:51

Wanting to go back is one thing.

Being shitscared about it is entirely another.

I'm desperate for normal. As are most of us. But the prospect of the current proposals looks very very stressful, and I'm worried about it.

Fedup21 · 04/08/2020 19:57

[quote Crumpets111]@Fedup21 it's called a debate, deal with it instead of moaning[/quote]
It’s a thread asking teachers how they feel about something; I am just confused by why non-teachers would be on this thread?

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