ADs and their very long lists!

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We were up to 999 posts so thought we needed a new thread!

@cocopops unless they announce something different today the army aren't actually going into schools to help with the tests, they are just going to provide a helpline.

[quote ineedaholidaynow]@cocopops unless they announce something different today the army aren't actually going into schools to help with the tests, they are just going to provide a helpline.[/quote]
Can confirm this. Army would be useful but schools are recruiting temp staff themselves or using agencies for the testing.

So it has leaked that schools in tier 4 to shut for minimum 2 weeks

@Seriouslymole

I've come back here to stop me engaging on other threads on this site - I need to learn. Why is it people are calling for "at least 4 weeks" of school shut down? Please. Can no-one see the bigger picture here? It's demoralising and depressing and other de-words.

I wonder if I shouldn't just ban myself from Mumsnet.

If for any reason my teen can not go back as a keyworker child on Monday then he will be going to my sibling's a couple of days a week instead. Sibling has been breaking the rules since March. I'm keeping away from my grandmother but otherwise I no longer care.

It sounds as if some areas in tier 4 will be shut for primary and secondary and otherwise secondary not going back until 18th Jan. Another two weeks out of school.

WTF am I going to do with DD? Two weeks of Christmas holidays was bad enough with nowhere to go, and I’ve been on leave and able to spend time with her. I’m back at work on Monday and she needs to be in school: her mental health slipped really badly over the summer. And her school is utterly crap at remote learning.

It would be one thing if it really were two weeks, but I don’t trust this fucking Government not to keep the schools shut till Easter.

@ProfessorRadcliffeEmerson - I hear you. I have my DS (aged 11) at home also - his mental health plummeted during the last lockdown. I am dreading this next two weeks. His school did OK online learning but sitting in front of a screen for 6 hours a day is not brilliant for anyone.

Really feel for those with younger secondary aged children . DS was 13 at the start of lockdown one, so didn't need 'childcare' but became very isolated and withdrawn being home alone all day every day while I worked.

It would be one thing if it really were two weeks, but I don’t trust this fucking Government not to keep the schools shut till Easter. I don't either.

Oh god yes. We lost 2 years of progress in the first lockdown for DS who had been an emotional and behavioural mess after severe bullying. He HAS to go back to school.
And actually, his school were pretty bad at online learning but are fantastic in person - he was blossoming in their care before this whole shitshow started.

Are these tiers even working? It feels like they put us in them, the numbers still rise and we just get advanced to the next tier with no proof it actually does anything? There will be a tier 15 soon where we all have to live in individual pods underground

I'm just frustrated having this gone on for months with seemingly no end to it, just increasing restrictions and no actual difference being made other than the loss of jobs and industry and my teenager fading away into depression

Oh bollocks, tier three now. Can't help but feel pissed off that we've gone from tier one, to lockdown, to tier two, to cancelled Christmas, to tier three. I mean, it's kind of obviously not working isn't it?

Need to go trawl government websites now to make sure I can still do 1:1 tuition in homes. I'm sure as fuck not doing it outside, in North Yorkshire, in January.

I doubt that any of the people who make these decisions are parents or if they are, they are v absent ones.

@SirSamuelVimes - DH is still doing one-to-one in our house (music). I guess it depends how demetory the parents are.

dementory that should say

We have been in tier 4 for ten days. Too early to tell whether its made a difference.

Yes everyone is going to think this two weeks is more nudge theory.

DD1 is also fading into sadness and I am not much help as so am I. I have at least one suicidal ideation every day. And the only thing that stops me is my family and the thought that if I did something foolish, Hancock and Co would win. And I want them to lose and lose badly.

Crumbs. I've just seen that "Schools in January" thread. Think I'll sit here quietly instead.

Tier 3 here.

for anyone going into tier 4 especially with kids.

We are sending DS1 (Y9) back on 4th Jan. He has an EHCP and he didn't go at the beginning of the first lockdown but went part time after a while. He was a lot happier to be there than at home.
I've said he could come home at lunchtime, DP thinks he should just stay at school rather than me having to check if he has done all his work.

Tier 4 here. Fucking hell!
It seems like mass hysteria all over. Do these people who are screaming for total lockdown actually do any research and look beyond the media headlines and the information we are being selectively fed? I’m no great intellectual but even I can see that things don’t add up.
Pass the gin.

Oooooh, that is a good idea Aztectrousers. I might have a gin and tonic in a moment.

Hate gin (sorry) but am on the wine

@CruCru Speaking of crumbs i cant stop thinking of Penfold

I also have Christmas socks on which have "oh crumbs" written on them with a half eaten Christmas cookie.

But it was also Penfolds catchphrase. JVT

I've had two sleepless nights due to my brain being over loaded . I have come off all social media apart from this thread now. I need to kerb my alcohol consumption for my mental health too.

I'm hoping that the use less government will get their arses in gear and vaccinate elderly and vulnerable and then the rest of us can just crack on with normal life.

My DD has just forwarded a video by Katie Hopkins about the number 388 (how many people under 60 who have died with covid) compared to the number of business which have been forced to close, mental health issues that have increased and a whole host of other consequences of these bloody lockdowns. I know she’s very marmite but on this occasion has a valid point 😡