To think it’s about time @MNHQ stepped up and did something about the teacher bashing.

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This evening has been AWFUL here on the AIBU board.

@MNHQ, at what point do you actually plan to intervene and do something about the sheer number of teacher bashing threads, and individual posts? Should we expect any kind of moderation?

Or, is this in fact, “all in the spirit of Mumsnet”? Because at the moment, you’re making it look a darn sight like you agree by proxy.

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Not every piece of work would be marked in normal lessons anyway. Much would depend on the task.
Most schools I know are marking extended pieces from y10 and certain exercises for no essay based subjects.

This is beyond the guidance though. I did have a link but can't find it now and helpfully Google seems to only want to show the most updated page for schools being phased back. In a nutshell, the curriculum has been suspended and schools should be signposting to appropriate learning materials. Most are doing more than that for year 10 for obvious reasons.

If in doubt, contact your child's school to ask what their policy is for giving GCSE students feedback during remote learning.

I'm not surprised that the Mumsnet teachers find that outside their job descriptions.

Some might.

I've rung my kids every week, only spoken to about 50%, but I had a lovely video call with a mum and her two last week. She needed a bit of support and asked me to. I was happy to do it.

We do exist on MN, Nick, teachers who do what we can!

Not just that Nick but do what their school leadership state is the school policy.

My school didn't start doing widespread phonecalls straight away because they didn't want staff to feel pressured into it when they needed to prioritise getting remote learning set up. Our leadership also wanted to make appropriate policies and an agreement on what would be expected. This means that there's consistency and you don't get one colleague calling loads and others hardly ever (with the associated complaints either way from parents, for example we have a lot of parents working from home so regular calls from school would be a pain in the arse for them ). The expectations have been communicated to parents as well. That took time but was worth the wait.

Thank you @lolaSmiles. That’s really helpfl

Thank you @vahshtanevada

Thats really helpful list. Is that what we can expect teachers to be doing?

*Being in school to facilitate learning and support vulnerable and key worker children

• Planning and marking work remotely
• Communicating with families via newsletters, phonecalls, email etc
• Recording ourselves reading stories, singing songs etc
• Writing reports
• Planning for the return to school
• Supporting vulnerable children with a range of issues including free school meals
• Online lessons
• Other stuff I don’t know about because my school / my children’s school isn’t doing it!*

So of these duties the my children's teachers are doing about 1 fifth.

And I do think that is unacceptable.

Can people stop calling kids germ ridden constantly on these threads! Where do you get off calling my children germ ridden super spreaders blah blah maybe you the germ spreader! It's getting fucking boring now it's just rude!

And in response to posters who are clearly teachers and do not think it is within their job remit to check in via phone and face time with year r pupils who were shocked, confused and upset about not seeing their teacher - shocking.

ShallallalAa

You might want to rewrite that.

@maria860 Because they are 🤣 Why are you taking it personally?

No they aren't stop calling my children germ ridden like their a pack of rats infecting everyone they see..it's boiling my piss on this site because NOBODY has confirmed kids are even spreading this illness backed up by scientific evidence!

I think teachers should only call kids germridden if they are happy to say that to parents directly at parents evening. It’s so rude.

We all know that bugs spread round school like wildfire and teachers are used to bringing home every sniffle.

Nobody is insulting your child, don’t be so silly!

@Nicknacky it is rude

However, even though there’s been feedback on the day-to-day work set the actual marks for assignments and tests Haven’t been submitted with the head of dept stating (reasonably) that from a pastoral care perspective it wasn’t appropriate to give the children their grades unless they were face-to-face. Maybe that’s why the mock’s results have been withheld? it’s a nice thought but they really are not that sensitive to a student’s feelings - they can be quite brutal and public about results and the requirement for resits so I’d confidently say a firm no on your reasoning.

@HipTightOnions don't patronise me and call me silly thanks! Maybe the adults are the germ ridden ones... kids don't know any better everyone acts like the kids are carrying fucking Ebola and are going to kill us all, it's getting pathetic!
Come at me with some scientific evidence because the experts don't even know if they are spreading it to adults or even carriers! So until everyone knows stop calling everyone's kids germ ridden super spreaders when no one even knows if they actually are...

Calling kids germ ridden is rude - I’m amazed by teachers not realising this - might explain a lot if they don’t though.

maria860

Studies have shown that they are carriers. It is how they spread it that no-one knows.

Sultanarama et al

Again some teachers.

FrippEnos Would you tell a parent their child is germ ridden?

Possibly but anyone and everyone could be carriers not just children and it's the terms used what if we called every old person in a care home germ ridden OAPs or every nurse a germ ridden NHS worker!
It isn't OK and non of us know the scientist do not know if their is children to adult transmission.

This is getting more and more bonkers now. Good luck all.

Any teachers happy to step up and say the comment about ‘germ ridden’ children was totally unprofessional and out of order?

Nicknacky

I wouldn't.

FeippEnos Good to hear it because it’s incredibly rude. These are our children that teachers are talking about when they refer to them like that.

@Lemonblast people know it's wrong hence why their bowing out the thread.