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?

What is wrong with people. I agree with others, not that you should have to but please do report.

Not the point of the thread but what’s MFL?

Modern foreign languages

Modern Foreign Languages

Ring your union OP. This is crazy

And the LA

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

lol

Did you forget where you were for a second? Don’t you know that criticising spelling or grammar on the Internet is akin to treason and you will be taken out the back and shot for it! Especially on a thread mentioning teaching. Wake up dude!

Given the gradual lock down and the nature of Year 10 and 12 students, I very much doubt you’ll see many kids. I would email the head and remind him/her of social distancing and that only keyworker/vulnerable children should be allowed in. The fewer kids come in, the lower the risk. Is there a sympathetic union rep available?

Definitely whistle blow , where my ds is a teacher they are on a rota and the HT has said he doesn’t want anyone to come in unless it’s their allocated day .

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

Any need? Could be a typo, autocorrect or perhaps the OP has dyslexia.

You are kind, Crinkle :-).

To be honest, I can't see a bunch of 100 teenagers beating a path to the school door if they don't have to.

Work is sending colleagues around to the homes of those self isolating to help them set up for home working. And then the colleagues will be coming back into work. Hmmm.

I've got my kit sorted and will be WFH until the apocalypse is over.

To be honest, I can't see a bunch of 100 teenagers beating a path to the school door if they don't have to.
But I can see the parents pushing them off to school.

Absolutely report them. Or ask someone unidentifiable to do it if you're worried about your job.
That's even more dangerous than just teaching them as normal.
Do people not understand this isn't a school holiday. They're not meant to be popping anywhere!

Absolutely report. Our head is minimising any exposure and has made it clear that we need to be away from school as much as we can. What an idiot head you have. Threaten to report him to Ofsted

Safeguarding issue for all of the students they’re telling to come in.

There seem to be some people viewing these school closures as they do snow days - who can get some brownie points for showing everyone else up to be wusses.

Definitely Angelina.

Posted too soon : language like 'stepping up' , even 'volunteering' and 'doing your bit' is actually actively unhelpful and is even used in NAHT documentation. This is not the Blitz. The War was not contagious. Working from home and setting and monitoring work to maintain student learning is perfectly valid.

I’d like to point out that our head wants people at home as much as possible while keeping the school running on a rota system.
We have been set tasks to do but they are only the kind of things we would be doing anyway like entering assessments onto the system.

Our head is an OFSTED inspector.

I’d report it and fast. This is dangerously irresponsible and totally at odds with what the government is trying to do to protect key workers. They are absolute imbeciles. It’s not an Easter holiday drop in revision session ffs - it’s a closure due to a global pandemic.

Our school have invited all kids on fsm in for lunch every day

I think yabu. Why do you think there’ll be hundreds of teenagers needing photocopying daily? I expect they’ll rethink if the school is actually inundated, but I don’t see why it would be.

Who is going to clean the photocopier???

I'd write to the governors, head teacher, local education authority and your MP to inform them I'd also name and shame as I'm so fucked off with society in the UK now and send it to every newspaper and media company

It's also a safeguarding concern