Should teachers be extra vigilant to infection in their every day lives to reduce school transmission?

[WhyNotMe40]

As the latest PHE report states that in June there were more staff than students affected by the covid19 coronavirus, there are suggestions that teachers should take measures to reduce bringing the virus into schools.

Voting: do you think teachers should change how they behave out of schools to protect the school?
YABU yes
YANBU no

Also - what activities or behaviours do you think teachers should avoid or do to further this aim?

I am not sure how I can avoid spending time with my DH (teacher) not that I really want to and my DS (student) all at different schools.

Why is this all about 'teachers' by the way. Are there different rules for office staff, site agents, TAs? Or are they not held to the same moral standards? (sarcasm klaxon)

Not within the rules, no, but I suppose those teachers who think schools are a hotbed of infection should avoid doing so.

Seeing as maintaining SD from other staff is the easiest and probably only workable element of the guidance infection from other teachers is not why I think infection will be rife, regardless of what the governments might say based on their biased and selective statistics

I was thinking more along the lines of a group of teachers socialising.

Why is this all about 'teachers' by the way

Sorry - school staff, TAS and admin staff included etc.

TAs

I don't know any teachers who have socialised in a group of more than about 3.

I don't know any teachers who have socialised in a group of more than about 3.

I'm sure they have farewell/retirement/maternity leave/Christmas meals...

I was talking about since March.

None of the above.

@Clavinova

I don't know any teachers who have socialised in a group of more than about 3.

I'm sure they have farewell/retirement/maternity leave/Christmas meals...

Surely these rules would apply for anyone in an workplace?

Don't worry teachers don't need to socialise they get loads of it at work in their really long coffee breaks......

Teachers should behave the same way everyone else should behave, why should we/they do anything different? We're looking after your kids and educating them and we'll do that whether you're a responsible parent or not

Surely these rules would apply for anyone in an workplace?

I suppose it depends on how worried you are about the virus - I am fairly relaxed myself, but trying to stick to the guidelines - I gather that some people are more worried than me.

@Clavinova

I don't know any teachers who have socialised in a group of more than about 3.

I'm sure they have farewell/retirement/maternity leave/Christmas meals...

will I be allowed to meet my non-teachers friends?

just trying to gauge if I can socialise with non-teachers and just avoid teachers because they are infectious spreaders of covid

At the end of last term we had a socially distanced farewell to retiring and leaving colleagues - outside, with no shared food as would be usual.

Do you think we are idiots or something Clav?!

will I be allowed to meet my non-teachers friends?

I don't see why not - although perhaps they should sit more than 2 metres away from you.

At the end of last term we had a socially distanced farewell to retiring and leaving colleagues - outside, with no shared food as would be usual.Do you think we are idiots or something Clav?!*

Haven't you complained about not being able to leave the windows open in Winter?!

@Clavinova

I was thinking more along the lines of a group of teachers socialising.

Why would you assume that teachers would socialise outside current law? Sounds a bit blame-happy to me.

Doesn't this issue just show some of the contradictions in government advice etc? We're told that schools are covid safe, 'bubbles' of entire year groups are safe (no masks or social distancing needed), teachers are safe to teach across 'bubbles' with no PPE. This is despite the knowledge that many children (especially teenagers) have not been sticking to guidelines throughout. But at the same time teachers need to take extra precautions in the personal lives to avoid infecting others in school. But for everyone else it's perfectly safe to go to the pub etc

Hmm yes, we were very good and didn't hold our usual Christmas meal at the end of July this year.

In my school it's INSET via zoom, staff meetings via zoom, SLT meetings in person but attendance restricted so KS1 andKS2 meetings separate to ensure attendance is below 6, all socially distanced, only our married staff currently carshare, staff room restricted to 3 staff at any one time, chairs 2m apart and staff to make their own drinks, no socialising in school. What staff do outside school is down to them as long as they abide by current restrictions just as anyone else would be expected to do.

@Clavinova

At the end of last term we had a socially distanced farewell to retiring and leaving colleagues - outside, with no shared food as would be usual.Do you think we are idiots or something Clav?!*

Haven't you complained about not being able to leave the windows open in Winter?!

Erm nope. I've complained about windows that don't open!

just so I am clear - i am okay to socialise with my non-teacher friends including medics, hairdressers,

what about uni lecturers?

I'm on holiday with a teacher. She's closer than 2m away from me, right now. I'm morally unconscionable.

@ohthegoats

I'm on holiday with a teacher. She's closer than 2m away from me, right now. I'm morally unconscionable.

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