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For those who want schools to go back..

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pfrench · 07/05/2020 12:08

.. tell us how you think it should work. Primary or secondary.

In your ideal world.

How would social distancing be adhered to?
How about drop off and pick up?
How would classrooms operate?
How about lunchtimes and breaktimes?
What about after school childcare provision?
What about staff who are sheidling?
What about children who are sheilding?
What about staff who have family members who are sheilding?
Should only some children go back? Who should they be and why?

So many education and school experts on here, it will be interesting to read your safe solutions.

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Bollss · 09/05/2020 10:09

I think the "schools don't have any money" is a bit of a shit excuse. The obviously don't have the money now but if the government want them to re open they will have to provide it.

Let's face it it's cheaper than the furlough bill for all these childrens parents I assume.

Daffodil101 · 09/05/2020 10:09

Can you imagine the complaint from the Covid positive patient when the doctor broke their finger putting them in prone position?

Ergo, doctors should not touch covid patients for fear of a complaint.

Floatyboat · 09/05/2020 10:09

@parrots

Are u not worried about the harm to kids of not being in school?! Both options have harms.

Fedup21 · 09/05/2020 10:10

But teachers and head teachers should also be coming up with various plans themselves depending on their own specific schools and possible government plans.

Teachers won’t make those decisions, but heads, academy chains and CoG will be discussing it. They won’t be sharing them with you though, much as you’d like them to.

Artroomproblems · 09/05/2020 10:10

I'm an Art teacher.

All this talk of buckets of water is making me twitch.

Let's just say that far too many children can't even carry a brush pot full of water across the room without spilling it. The place would be flooded if we ran with the (not so) ingenious bucket idea.

A ridiculous suggestion for too many reasons.

Fedup21 · 09/05/2020 10:11

No I have 3 buckets from home bargains, they're fine. Each kid brings in or is given a bucket and soap. Filled at start of the day, left in playground, classroom wherever suits and then washes in it periodically

30 buckets full of water sitting in every classroom?! Oh, that is just brilliant.

Bollss · 09/05/2020 10:12

Why can't kids use hand sanitizer? Have I missed something?

( Genuinely as when Ds was still at nursery we had to use it before we entered the building)

Greenlorry · 09/05/2020 10:12

@Daffodil101 I agree

Asuitablecat · 09/05/2020 10:13

And all the kids getting sent home cos Billy threw a bucket of water over them and now they're soaking.

Artroomproblems · 09/05/2020 10:13

Floatyboat

Who organises the filling of 1500 buckets?

greathat · 09/05/2020 10:13

@Artroomproblems I think the specially employeed PPE clad member of staff would be carrying the hundreds of individually filled buckets. I wonder how long it takes to fill a bucket and carry it to a suitable bucket storage site

Flaxmeadow · 09/05/2020 10:13

Are you actually stupid?

No I'm more a thinking outside the box kind of person, or bucket as it were. You brain storming and all that stuff but unfortunately, like every other suggestion on here, it immediately gets slapped back down. Is this how teachers are nowadays. God help their pupils

A shortage of sinks and you're suggesting using buckets of water and cheap soap?
Each child using the same dirty soapy water?

Water and soap is the best way to beat the virus. But teachers want "gels" and "alcohol sprays", even when no bugger else gets them, teachers must have them because ...erm no one knows...they're special or something.... It hasnt been explained yet

Or are you suggesting we refill each bucket after each child with clean water? Oh... yeh...not enough taps or sinks...F'ing hell.

No I suggest you could create some kind of plastic tube spout thingy, so that each child doesn't have put their hands in the bucket. Ask some of your primary school pupils to create something for a science lesson . I'm sure they would be a damn site more inventive than the staff, and more enthusiastic.

Maybe we could hose them all down after each lesson...down ... again... not enough taps

No just the hands.

But hey special aloe vera gels and eco friendly sprays or it's a all a big no go isnt it?

Daffodil101 · 09/05/2020 10:14

Hand sanitiser. Talk of buckets is daft.

If you aren’t allowed it, change the rules.

Until recently, the law required two doctors to section a patient under the mental health act. They changed the rules because there’s a pandemic on.

I’m sure they could change the rules on sanitiser, too.

Artroomproblems · 09/05/2020 10:14

Trust

They can.
The bucket talk comes from some batshit idea a poster had upthread.

CallmeAngelina · 09/05/2020 10:15

It would be 450 buckets in our school.
We might just about get them all filled up once each before it was time to go home.

Mistressiggi · 09/05/2020 10:17

I think I'd be sticking my head in the bucket by the end of the first weekGrin

Bollss · 09/05/2020 10:17

Oh right @Artroomproblems so why is that not a solution?
I thought I was being thick.

Could they not install them outside every classroom like they have in hospitals?

Frustratedsenmummy · 09/05/2020 10:17

Hand washing stations akin to festivals could be set up. Simple rows of taps with a trough and soap for each individual tap.

Artroomproblems · 09/05/2020 10:18

No I'm more a thinking outside the box kind of person, or bucket as it were. You brain storming and all that stuff but unfortunately, like every other suggestion on here, it immediately gets slapped back down. Is this how teachers are nowadays. God help their pupils

Flaxmeadow:
Your bucket suggestion wasn't even marginally intelligent which is why it has been 'slapped' down.

greathat · 09/05/2020 10:18

My school couldn't get hand sanitiser leading up to the lockdown. Much less effective than soap and water. I'm busy thinking outside the box with the buckets idea anyway. I suppose they might need to be sent in with changes of clothes too in case they spill their individual bucket on themselves

Howaboutanewname · 09/05/2020 10:19

Why can't kids use hand sanitizer? Have I missed something?

Well, the cost is currently prohibitive, that’s even assuming we could get hold of enough. Parents can’t all afford it. Older children squirt it at each other, drink it due to alcohol content....it’s a so,union but there are problems.

FrippEnos · 09/05/2020 10:20

Flaxmeadow

So protest it! Do something. Organise yourselves

yeah we should get together, put out demands we could protect our rights, hell we could do allsorts.

We could call ourselves a union

Oh hang on, isn't this part of what you are whinging about?

Artroomproblems · 09/05/2020 10:21

Could they not install them outside every classroom like they have in hospitals?

Taps? Or sinks? (Or buckets? Grin)

I suppose if the government can fund the plumbing costs...
Our school has 112 classrooms.

Daffodil101 · 09/05/2020 10:21

No, I couldn’t get hand sanitiser, either.

Our secretary had a bag of it under her desk because she knew somebody who worked in a factory that made it. It was like gold dust. I dug our several little bottles of it I’d been given in my job, all were out of date.

That was a couple of months ago. It’s now freely available on the internet, I’ve just bought 10 bottles.

Daffodil101 · 09/05/2020 10:22

(And I’ve given one each to my quite sensible kids)

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