Wish I wasn't a teacher because of Covid

[NebularNerd]

In my family/friends circle, I am the only one who will be face to face with 150+ people per day with no PPE, no social distancing, nothing.

I have one relative who is not expecting to return to the office this year.
Another who now only works in the office two days per week, in a building where numbers are severely restricted, one way systems, spaced out desks etc.
Another friend who is also able to wfh for the foreseeable future.

I can't help but think that had I made a different career choice I would not now be faced with contracting a potentially life threatening virus and passing it on to my clinically extremely vulnerable husband or elderly parents.

I will go to work and try to ignore what's going on in the world and do my best. But I wish I could be made to feel safer - screens, masks, fewer pupils, something.

I hope I'm worrying for nothing, but it is getting difficult to sleep at night.

Dammit

for your DS.

I’ve seen this shitty behaviour too. The constant little pokes. The plausible deniability. The wide-eyed hand-spread ‘What???!! I was only just....’ when they are picked up on it. It’s underhand, sneaky, unpleasant and just chips away at the victim who struggles to explain why them being upset isn’t an overreaction,

Well done for helping your DS sort it.

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Well, first day back today and there wasn't even soap in the staff toilets. Hoping they get some in for the kids...
No social distancing...
No one-way systems organised yet...

Pandemic? What pandemic?

Absolute chaos today. And we only had staff in. What can possibly go wrong when we have 1,800 kids in too. I'm resigned to getting ill and just hoping it's not too bad. I am shattered.

I am taking my own soap in. I didn't remotely expect my school to have provided anything so frivolous...sighs.

Your not being bullied your just getting another opinion which you don’t like. Plus there is a gang of you too.

Sorry pardon? What has this to do with soap?

Your not being bullied your just getting another opinion which you don’t like.
Classic line of defence of bullies.

If anything you are being a bit of a bully , there is nothing I’ve said on this post that I wouldn’t say to a friend that was worried about going back to work.

Honestly, try & ignore. You're rewarding bad behaviour with your attention

@stairway

If anything you are being a bit of a bully , there is nothing I’ve said on this post that I wouldn’t say to a friend that was worried about going back to work.

Who are you talking to, specifically, in this post? And please give evidence as to the alleged bullying.

Having been back today, I am so sure that if anyone brings Covid into my classroom (be it me or the kids) we are all screwed. No space, windows open an inch, half of them don’t even open. Kids all over each other in the playgrounds.

You know that bit in the simpsons when Marge is like “at times like these, all you can do is laugh” and then she stares silently into space? Me right now.

CallmeAngelina I’m talking about when a few people on this thread gang up on a particular poster they disagree with until eventually that poster leaves the thread. If we are going to bring up bullying I’m afraid I think that fits the bill. Of course we are all adults so hopefully no ones left upset but I have seen this happen on here.

One case in our place and 2,000 people will be taking it home. Bubbles are a farce as siblings and school buses burst them. It is going to be so horrible.

The children can't reach the soap dispenser that has been put in over the summer in my room. And I'm not allowed to go and buy my own to put in there. So that's nice.

It's going to be chaos. Without covid in the mix, if we tried to do some of the stuff we're being asked to do, it would be chaos. Children aren't adults, they don't follow rules very well very often.

Definitely a more depressing September than usual.

Back in today, no sanitiser in my classroom, 4 members of staff in quarantine so reception has a class of 28 new kids on their first day of school with a temporary TA. It doesn’t bode well.

Ah yeah, we've got two staff off tomorrow having covid tests. Already.

@Jay670

Back in today, no sanitiser in my classroom, 4 members of staff in quarantine so reception has a class of 28 new kids on their first day of school with a temporary TA. It doesn’t bode well.

Yup. No sanitiser in our block. Classrooms filthy in the block. Staff toilet no soap. No anti bac wipes or anything for surfaces.

Did see one box of tissues and a couple of flip bins.

@Piggywaspushed

I am taking my own soap in. I didn't remotely expect my school to have provided anything so frivolous...sighs.

Yup doing the same tomorrow for our staff loo.

they occasionally put the foaming soap in ours, but when I went in a couple of weeks ago they had removed it.

No paper towels either.

Every single classroom in my school has a big box with gloves, aprons, disposable facemasks, a cleaning bucket, fairy liquid, anti-bac spray, antibac wipes, blue cleaning cloths, a bottle of hand soap, a first aid kit and visors for each staff. All entry points have sanisiter - its full and all the foam soaps are checked regularly. Cleaning hours have been increased.
It genuinley breaks my heart that this isnt the case in other schools. Seeing you have to provide things like gloves isnt right.
Although i cant help feeling the real issue is everyone crammed in and no amount of disposable aprons is going to help..

@MillieEpple I’ve got disinfectant spray but it just involves me spraying the tables before they have their lunch, my break has been reduced to half an hour and it takes me a while to get stuff ready in that time for them to eat. It’s such a pain 😔

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