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.

I withdrew my post as I was worried it was too outing with the photo. Sod it. This is what I'm taking into school tomorrow for my department.

Honestly, this is an absolute scandal.

No fucking SOAP in schools?

Really, someone needs to do a story on this.

(I'm not a journalist btw, just fucking appalled at what's happening to teachers)

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@NebularNerd

Honestly, this is an absolute scandal.

No fucking SOAP in schools?

Really, someone needs to do a story on this.

(I'm not a journalist btw, just fucking appalled at what's happening to teachers)

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I'm not even surprised by this. I remember my childs school having no toilet paper beginning of 2020!

@NebularNerd

Honestly, this is an absolute scandal.

No fucking SOAP in schools?

Really, someone needs to do a story on this.

(I'm not a journalist btw, just fucking appalled at what's happening to teachers)

🤬🤬🤬

I agree. I think the LA of any school that can't supply soap should be held accountable. We scrape by but we do have soap in the toilets.

Yup I agree about the lack of soap (well in our staff loo I haven't checked the kids loos) but makes a nice change from buying pens and other resources.

You would like to think that the lack of soap may finally make some parents see what teachers have to put up with. If they can't even manage it at the beginning of term, what will it be like at the end of term?

To the teachers whose schools don't even have sufficient soap (sadly I can believe it) - is there nothing the unions can do? Can staff not strike ? Maybe staff striking due to being asked to go to work in unsafe conditions will be what it takes for the government to put some money in. Enough for adequate soap at least.

Millie, this is the thing, it's an air borne respitory illness. Cleaning tables will help but it won't take it out the air or out of students throats.

If you’re a teacher and your school does not have enough money to buy soap, please find a way to make that known to all the parents. It will probably just mean that the parents give money towards soap but hopefully it will highlight the issues to a wider audience and something might be done to keep our kids teachers and wider communities safer!

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

Now they're ganging up in the cleaners I think. Sad

*up

I think you will find @Flaxmeadow that they are ganging up on the Government for spending so little on schools that the cleaning budget is shit and a proper job can't be done and enough soap etc can't be provided.

@Flaxmeadow, re-read the posts more carefully. No one is even mentioning cleaners, but a lack of cleaning materials.

Flaxmeadow, really scraping that barrel there aren't you.

The staff at our school have been socialising together, in pubs and around peoples houses etc so no point kids SD really

I think you will find @Flaxmeadow that they are ganging up on the Government for spending so little on schools that the cleaning budget is shit and a proper job can't be done and enough soap etc can't be provided

Don't make me laugh. A bar of soap costs pennies, it isn't the Gov't who put the soap in the wash basin. It's the cleaners. Have you asked them where the soap is? Or are they too busy running around scrupulously cleaning everything, because teachers are complaining that none of it is good wnough.

@bombaychef

The staff at our school have been socialising together, in pubs and around peoples houses etc so no point kids SD really

Oh look, teachers shouldn’t go to the pub or socialise like everyone else is allowed to.

@Flaxmeadow, re-read the posts more carefully. No one is even mentioning cleaners, but a lack of cleaning materials

The cleaners are probably terrified of the teachers by now!!!

Don't make me laugh. A bar of soap costs pennies, it isn't the Gov't who put the soap in the wash basin. It's the cleaners. Have you asked them where the soap is? Or are they too busy running around scrupulously cleaning everything, because teachers are complaining that none of it is good wnough.

Flax it’s ok to not understand how schools work, but it’s really not a great idea to start making things up.

1. Yes, a bar of soap costs pennies. But one bar of soap isn’t going to wash the hands of 1200 students and 80+ staff, is it? Try 30ish liquid soap dispensers that need very regular refilling, especially with the extra hand washing rules. Not to mention the cost of the hand sanitiser in the multiple dispensers in the corridor and one in each classroom. Which kids have to use on entering and exiting the classroom. I’m sure you realise that’s more expensive than “a bar of soap”.

2. I can’t speak for all schools, but where I work the funding for soap and hand sanitiser (and wipes and bins) comes directly from the school budget. It is not supplied by the cleaners.

As I said above. No one expects you to understand how schools work. But you can’t make up absolute bull just for the sake of attacking teachers. I mean, it hardly hurts our feelings when we know it’s absolute bollocks

Who orders the soap?

You want her full name? Email address?

Oh look. Not just my school then

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-told-they-cant-claim-for-preventative-cleaning-measures/

Turns out it is literally the government who are supposed to ensure schools are able to put soap “in the sink” (preferably via some hands).

Enabling this learning moment has given me a lovely warm glow.

Who orders the soap in schools? It's a simple question

I would imagine the exact person depends on the schools. I work in a large school so our purchasing dept is responsible for ordering supplies, including hand soap and sanitiser. Orders will be raised by the Premises manager or school manager in this case.

It’s really not a good look for you that you can’t take the information from someone who works in a school, and have to scrap over every single detail. You’re still wrong. But that’s fine. I probably wouldn’t have the first idea about how to do your job! The difference being, I’m not telling you I know your job better than you do, or making up lies about your job.

Any comment on the article which shows that schools have indeed had to order cleaning supplies?

It’s really not a good look for you that you can’t take the information from someone who works in a school, and have to scrap over every single detail.

What isn't a good look is your assumption that I've never worked in a school

You’re still wrong.

Wrong about what?

But that’s fine.

Thanks for your approval

I probably wouldn’t have the first idea about how to do your job! The difference being, I’m not telling you I know your job better than you do, or making up lies about your job.

What is my job?

Any comment on the article which shows that schools have indeed had to order cleaning supplies?

Schools already order cleaning supplies, with funding from LA's /Gov't. Schools run by teachers

So whose fault is it the wash basins have no soap? The store rooms are not stocked with soap? Not the cleaners.

If stocks were low, then more need to be ordered by the school, but it's always someone else's fault