Teachers know what's happening but can't tell us

[EvaHoffman]

As members of the elite teachers are automatically told things by the government and instructed not to tell us little, marginalised folk.

They probably have secret briefings. Either that or elite champagne cocktail parties where they network with each other and exchange information about what the next lockdown rules will be.

The only reason ordinary people don't know exactly what is going to happen with lockdown rules tomorrow, next week, next month is that we are considered too lowly to be told.

I'm going to keep on starting threads until someone spills the beans and admits that they know there's going to be an October lock down.

Lazy bloody teachers. Starting a global pandemic just so they dont have to go to work.

😂😂😂. Even head teachers don’t know

if the teacher hasn't told you, maybe consider whether you have recently complained about the reading book not being changed daily, or why haven't they heard little Johnny read twice a day, or spoke to the head oabout the teacher looking at you a bit funny when you were coughing at pick up time..

if so check which parents send in a card and chocolates at Christmas and see if they are in the know.

Never really thought it a conspiracy to be honest, just that they’d been sent more accurate info, when told to get ready for a lockdown

Everyone knows teachers drink champagne, they are champagne socialists. They have plenty of time for cocktail parties as they finish work at 3:30.

@PracticingPerson

Everyone knows teachers drink champagne, they are champagne socialists. They have plenty of time for cocktail parties as they finish work at 3:30.

No, no, no. They start the champagne during PPA, after all they have nothing else to do with the time.

Im concerned i might accidentally tell some parents about the governments plans, that im of course personally consulted on. We better start cancelling parents evenings so we dont break under pressure. We could blame the global pandemic... but im not sure people will believe that flimsy excuse.

I got the satire (teacher too!). The students often think we have mysterious knowledge too.

That's the fun of it, teachers find out when everyone else does and have to magic the solution out of thin air.

It's a joke thread?

Guess I'd better remove the thumb screws and release my teacher friends. Oops.

If anything we are told less. Get a grip.

Yes Oct 26 we plan to be closed

🍻 cheers!

Teachers in on lockdown? They dont need to tell teachers anything.
Im in Scotland we have been told theres no lock down.
There will be restrictions but i think you need to calm down.

I run the learning platform in my school. I was asked to prepare it for full use (including training the children) less than 2 weeks before it was announced that schools would only open to key worker children. Even then, we had no real idea of when it would be needed, just that it would be needed.
By law (passed under the emergency law making system currently in place) school must be able to provide blended or online learning to pupils who are self isolating by the end of this month. That’s why schools are asking about online access. Passing a law requiring a school to do something is pointless if the children can’t complete the work.

@EvaHoffman

I can go one better, a good friend of mine is part of sage. He has told us what was suggested, the problem is that half the Tory party dont want restrictions. The reason for no announcement today is political wrangling behind the scenes as to (a) how far to go and (b) if it's not nationwide, how to impose restrictions on movement. All my friend is, is a a scientist who presents mathematical modelling of scenarios, he doesn't even get involved in implementation discussions

@MrsPeacockInTheLibrary

I got the satire (teacher too!). The students often think we have mysterious knowledge too.

we do have eyes in the back of our head - that's pretty mysterious!

Sorry OP - I was one who missed the joke.

In my defence, there are so many vile teacher-bashing threads here, I thought this was just one more. (And I didn't know you are a teacher!)

Exactly biwi. It says something t about the type of threads we've been seeing when the majority of people didn't spot the satire.
Actually that's similar to some news articles about politics at the moment

I know even more than you OP! It was teachers who ACTUALLY STARTED the coronavirus. So that they didn't have to go into school any more. Not Bill Gates at all!!

My friend's cousin knows a teacher so I get all the inside info

I thought everyone knew that teachers are in the 'cool gang'.
How else do they get away with finishing work at 3.30 and taking 13 weeks holiday every year? As well as their fabulous pension provision and top of the range working conditions?

. I jest. I'm a school governor and have had my eyes opened at the amount of bloody hard (and sadly sometimes irrelevant) work teachers put in, as well as the endless hours they devote to students on top of their enormous day-to-day workload.

I take my hat off to all teachers.

My friend's cousin knows a teacher so I get all the inside info

Well, 25 years ago, I was a pupil! So I know everything about teaching.

I did laugh at the pp who said her pupils think she has special powers or knowledge. Yes of course :) I remember thinking the same. And dd will argue that her teacher is blue in the face that she's right because her teacher said so even when it's clearly wrong (not suggesting her teacher is wrong, she's usually misremembered or taking it out of context). But if the teacher said, then so shall it be.

We're so elite that when the lockdown and school closures were announced, the secretary found out first and had to let the headteacher know!

No, you have got that wrong. School children are the elite. I have had numerous students tell me we will have another national lockdown around half-term, total news to me. So they get it first. Probably from the fairies working for the government.