To be Fuming with colleague (teaching)

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AIBU to be beyond angry?

Our school is closed from Monday, like every other school. However one department which consists of a member of SLT, a Head of Faculty and Three Heads of Years have decided that they couldn’t possibly bare coming into work for the next few months without the kids and have taken it upon themselves to invite the Y10s and Y12s to come into school to use the printers, photocopiers, get help with work, get lunch etc whenever they need.

We could have possibly over a hundred of them in, which is ridiculous and I don’t want to be in school to babysit 14,15,16 and 17 year olds.

Just feel pissed off that they’re doing this and the Head is apparently fine with it as they’re not teaching them and they’re just ‘popping in’ so it’s fine?

Not to mention we’re already babysitting the Y7s/8s with keyworker parents.

Apologies for the typos, feeling a bit too angry about the lack of social distancing to focus!

So much for social distancing and try to ‘flatten’ the curve

What do you teach if you've spelt bear as bare?

@BonnesVacances
I said apologises for the typos/spelling errors. I teach Drama but they have me covering MFL so much I may as well teach that, not that it’s particularly relevant

What do you teach if you've spelt bear as bare?
Do you feel better for that?

Oh and the answer to your question might just be in the OP's name.

I teach Drama

Doh!🤦‍♀️

@SillyBub
I do love music though, hence the name

I’d put a formal complaint, in writing, to the head and copy in the head of governors. This is not appropriate and is actively endangering the families of the key workers, as well as you all that are prepared to carry on working in order to keep them safe.

Speak to your lea maybe? Or the governors. They are being dickheads and obviously not watching the news. YANBU.

That really irresponsible. Report them to the department for education and public health England, complete violation of the guidance, print everyone at risk. Morons

I agree with @Haplap Blow that whistle loud and clear. This is putting lives at risk.

Surely it just shows the stupidity of only partly closing the schools though? You'll still have children of key workers in so essentially the schools are staying open.... so are those children not possible carriers?

I doubt any self respecting Year 10 or 12 year old will actually take them up on their offer, though...

How utterly irresponsible. Some people simply don’t get it do they.

What do you teach if you've spelt bear as bare?
Perhaps she could teach you some manners.

Yanbu at all. If there are specific children at risk in those years groups then they can be accommodated Alongside key workers children.
What they are suggesting Would just mean lots of the students hanging out together - totally against guidelines and irresponsible.

I’d be annoyed.

The whole idea of closing schools was to cut down on spreading the virus, to increase social distance etc.

The idea of keeping key workers children in is to allow their parents to go to work and their children to be in a safer, statistically lower virus free zone.

Inviting in all and sundry in won’t help lessen the probability of the school being virus free.

These older pupils could email, phone up, request printing and then simply collect it, pick up a fsm and go.

I bet the department in question isn't pulling their weight with y7+8?

I’d put money on it that they are the sort who are never out on the field all day on sports day! Bern there, seen that.

blow that whistle loud and clear

I csn appreciate the sentiment but the OP presumably wants to remain in a job when normality returns.

Sounds like just the thing some of my colleagues would suggest... you’d think teachers should be cleverer than that 🤦‍♀️

Sadly, this does not surprise me. I keep reading of schools making all staff come in ,and organising meetings etc. And football kickabouts being organised, gym sessions , rounders...

There is pushback against this on Edutwitter and the unions are beginning to sit up.

Is it the 'heroes' mentality? The Blitz spirit? Teachers being social beasts and easily bored?

Whatever, it's fucking stupid.

Speak to the NAS- email your rep. It won't matter that you are not a member if it is broad Health and Safety issue.

Also the government have (bewilderingly) promised parents that schools are safe.

That is monumentally stupid and dangerous.

And how will the HT explain this to the NHS staff and other key workers whose kids may now get exposed to the virus bringing it back home to them? Can s/he spell IDIOT?

What do you teach if you've spelt bear as bare?

What a completely twatish thing to say. Not big, not clever and says more about what's wrong with you than anything else, as long as you feel big and clever for saying it though!