Feeling slightly outraged...

[sunseekin]

Geoff Barton from the Association of School and College Leaders is quoted on itv.com as saying...

"Let's trust our young people, let’s trust our teachers, actually focus on getting our young people back into school."

I’m thinking the shambolic school guidance can’t be improved by simply trusting my children and/or their teachers?! It’s an airborne virus for goodness sake. There is no social distancing between children. There are going to be 30 people in a poorly ventilated room.

Wondering if it been massively taken out of context but that sentence is still there.

Read another article in the guardian from a headteacher and leader of another head teaching union yesterday which was spot on. Couldn’t quite believe what I was reading today! Am I being unreasonable?

Yawn.....Kids need school NOW

@ExmoorPony

Yawn.....Kids need school NOW

Kids need to be safe in school now. Fixed that for you.

YANBU

We have a number of families in the school who if they catch it have the ability to close down the school.

A set of twins could take out a bubble. Those boys are quite excited by the prospect

YANBU.

Normally I would agree with “trust the teachers” but you can’t “trust” us to do the impossible.

@HipTightOnions

YANBU.

Normally I would agree with “trust the teachers” but you can’t “trust” us to do the impossible.

Exactly. I completely trust the teachers to do their best with whatever they’re given. They’ve been given nothing and it’s just unforgivable. Things have to improve.

Thanks @FlySheMust I’m not going to stop being outraged until it’s fixed. Hopefully before we are properly into Autumn.

@StaffAssociationRepresentative

We have a number of families in the school who if they catch it have the ability to close down the school.

A set of twins could take out a bubble. Those boys are quite excited by the prospect

Oh my goodness you are going to have to stop them licking everyone and everything.

Look. It’s impossible to send all kids back & keep it COVID ‘safe’. Literally impossible. SD cannot take place, there isn’t space. Masks are uncomfortable to wear all day & just not possible for younger children.

So schools need to do what they can. Encourage good hygiene. Bubble as much as feasible. Stagger lunch & drop off/pick. That’s all they can do. There is no alternative other than blended learning. Which is much tougher on teachers & children. It has the potential to seriously affect children’s outcomes & futures.

It’s a no win situation. There isn’t an easy answer. But for now, we need to get the kids back & see how we go.

I trust the teachers at both the primary and secondary school.

Each of my 3 dc are in a bubble of 300.
Terrifying..
And no social distancing at all.
Or masks..

No social distancing, a bubble of 180, but it is not a bubble because those children have brothers and sisters ... so I really don’t get the bubble idea. Am not really impressed. All just a matter of time before rates creep up again.

I've been back at school for a few days and from today we had 4 out of 7 year groups in. Social distancing between students is nonexistent and between the teachers is pretty non existent too. Only support staff in offices seem to be adhering properly to distancing. Very few staff wearing masks (myself included)- the ones who are seem to be science teachers, which I should probably take heed of. It feels like such an impossibility to enforce distancing and also re: masks I don't see the point in being uncomfortable wearing one all day when 95% of the classes I teach and 95% of kids in corridors etc. won't be wearing them. So I will be protecting them- but it doesn't afford me any protection at all. I am masking up to enter support staff offices if anyone in there is wearing a mask, but that's it. I'm just resigned, to be honest, to the fact that schools have to just suck it up and lump it as things are.

We will end up with another huge spike in deaths before autumn is out. People will moan because the lockdown will be back. But those who moaned will be causing it!!

Absolutely @Howmanyhourswastedfindinganame

The moaners on here will only have themselves to blame. Schools are doing their best but it is never good enough for some. (but they are not that bothered that they retrain and support from within - far too happy being a keyboard warrior)

Your title is an oxymoron...