Schools staying open during lockdown

[JulieGS]

Is anyone else worried about sending our children to school during lockdown?

The NEU has launched a petition calling for schools to be closed - you can find it here:

actionnetwork.org/forms/close-schools-and-colleges-now

@HipTightOnions

“Ensure schoolwork is done” is not the same as “be a teacher yourself”.

It’s more like “remember to floss” or “put the candles out before you go to bed”.

you cant just "ensure schoolwork is done" if for example your child is 4 and learning to read - can you?

i cant just say here DS here's a worksheet get on with it while i work - can i?

No, i have to teach him how to do things, read things to him, give instructions, at the very least i have to supervise him the whole time he is doing something.

We dont all have well motivated self sufficient a* grade teenagers unfortunately.

@nicknacky I'd make it work. Just like I did last time. It's 4 weeks!

you can’t just "ensure schoolwork is done" if for example your child is 4 and learning to read - can you?

No, I agree. But you can for older children, and the oldest shouldn’t need any intervention at all.

There is no reason why remote/blended learning can’t work for my Y13 classes just because it doesn’t work for your 4-year old.

The solution doesn’t need to be “one size fits all”.

Even teenagers need teaching! I'm sure teaching degrees must have been harder than just give them a website to reference and a worksheet to do and Bob's your uncle = children educated.
I doubt there would be a need for a teaching degree if it was that easy anyone could do it, and do their own full time job at the same I might add.

Iremembertheelderlykorenlady Lucky you that you can do that. No wonder posters like you are shout for the schools to close then.

I can’t “make it work”.

@HipTightOnions

you can’t just "ensure schoolwork is done" if for example your child is 4 and learning to read - can you?

No, I agree. But you can for older children, and the oldest shouldn’t need any intervention at all.

There is no reason why remote/blended learning can’t work for my Y13 classes just because it doesn’t work for your 4-year old.

The solution doesn’t need to be “one size fits all”.

i'm sure for 4 weeks they don't need teaching but realistically a 17 or 18 year old cannot just teach themselves FT - if they can, no offense but why are you employed to teach them?

I remember what i was like in sixth form there's no way in hell i would do as well if half the time i was allowed to sit on my arse at home and i bet a lot of them now are the same.

i never said it does need one size fits all, but i think on the whole children need teaching or at least close supervision, and a lot of us have jobs.

Shouting it from the back in the SEN school ... Children. Need. To. Be. In . School

And I and all my colleagues I work with are happy to teach them!

[quote Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady]@nicknacky I'd make it work. Just like I did last time. It's 4 weeks![/quote]
Well get @Nicknacky a medal.

You're utterly deluded if you think a) this lockdown is for 4 weeks and b) if they shut schools, that they would open at the end of the 4 weeks

Thank you @OpheliasCrayon to you and your colleagues. I am so grateful to teachers like you, and I have to say, of all the teachers i know in 'real life' there is not one who shares the extreme 'SHUT THE SCHOOLS THEY'RE NOT SAFE' attitudes we see on MN.

Juststopswimming Errrrr, I didn’t say that. It was iremember That said it.

I want schools to stay open!

Obviously the other thousand threads weren’t sufficient. Still a no from me 🙄

@Nicknacky

Juststopswimming Errrrr, I didn’t say that. It was iremember That said it.

I want schools to stay open!

OOPS!!! Sorry...

Thank you @OpheliasCrayon to you and your colleagues. I am so grateful to teachers like you

I second this.

Ffs schools have been closed for 6 months

It is completely unacceptable that a generation of kids will become adults with huge gaps in their education.

And don’t get me started on the teachers who feel entitled to more time off. I have no sympathy - their jobs aren’t nearly as difficult as nursing staff have to do.

Not six months in reality though when you take out school hols which amount to 9 weeks and some years went back in June.

@IceCreamAndCandyfloss

Not six months in reality though when you take out school hols which amount to 9 weeks and some years went back in June.

Do you think thats sufficient then?

Oh yeah - makes all the difference when my daughter couldn’t sit her GCSEs.

Her 6th form college decided to close the whole college for a week one week before half term just because one staff member who wasn’t a teacher knew someone who tested positive. Now that they are back the teachers are all grumbling that they don’t want to be there. It pisses me right off.

@IceCreamAndCandyfloss

Not six months in reality though when you take out school hols which amount to 9 weeks and some years went back in June.

ah right 9 weeks is totally fine then.

It's funny because even a week or a couple of days off for a holiday was completely unacceptable before march this year and all of a sudden 9 weeks aint no big deal.

sorry not 9 weeks, 9 weeks was the holidays, but no matter how many weeks it was - why is it acceptable when a weeks term time holiday is not acceptable?

I just did a very rough count, where I came up with 13 weeks for those who didn’t go back in June (the majority).

I’m not sure if that’s right, but ballpark.

It's lovely to be thanked but I love my job and I'm just glad that schools are open and I can continue to go. This said sen schools have always been open to an extent for which I'm grateful as many of our children really do need to come!

Ffs school have been closed for 6 months

You'll get some smart arse along in a minute and tell you that schools remained open during lockdown but fail to add that the majority of pupils were prohibited from attending

The teachers unions are a total embarrassment. They were whining back in June when cases were low and only a few year groups were going back.

No schools shouldn't bloody well close.

Ds was saying to me earlier how he can tell that some of the teachers don't want to be there. He said the good teachers are keeping going as normal. As he rightly pointed out, his dad hasn't taken a single day off work throughout all of this, it's been totally normal for him.

Ds rightly said imagine if everyone decided they wanted to stay at home, the supermarket workers, the nursery nurses (who I haven't heard complain), the NHS workers, the factory workers. He's seen his aunt who is a nurse carrying on.

It's becoming a complete embarrassment.

It's becoming a complete embarrassment.

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That DS’s name.... Albert Einstein.

My teacher friend has resigned his membership from the union. He teaches in deprived inner London and said trying to do online schooling with deprived children was impossible.