Is a change beginning to happen regarding schools? (PART 2) The thread that the DfE felt they needed to comment on

[Covidfears]

Link to previous thread with the gaslighting by the DfE

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4082589-Is-a-change-beginning-to-happen-regarding-schools?msgid=102075920#102075920

There’s currently some teachers and affected parents getting together to take action against the government regarding the lies they have told about schools when they had a lot of evidence about the dangers. Parents and teachers who could only have caught Covid from school are being asked to save phone records, house camera footage and dash cam footage to prove their only movements have been to school and back so could not have feasible caught it anywhere else. I’ve been asked to keep mine which I have. Mine shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that we have only been going to school and I know that our school has been following government guidance to the letter. It’s early days but fingers crossed this works out.

Since the DfE are present here, I would like to ask them how having supply teachers in on all subjects, who do not teach but are just present, is in any way helpful to my year 11 daughter? Her teachers are off with COVID but no, the school will not close.

Get those lawyers fired up DfE ^^ you’ll need them!

I last taught in Reception. I only need full stops and capital letters. I fail at capital Ietters when using the computer from the days when someone used to sit on the keyboard and run cars over it and the shift key died in protest and I lost the habit of using it. The phone puts them in for me. Usually.

I taught before and in the era of: 15,15,20,10.... But left before everything was set out by the minute...

These days the wasd and space bar are getting a hammering and I am more interested in secondary education from the other side, whilst harbouring the notion that you are all completely insane teaching secondary. All those hormones and attitude and I have had 29 extra days of it this term because secondary education is fucking fucked.

Kids won't wear masks judging from the number of infractions that I have been notified of. the culprit has SPD but refuses to acknowledge that they are anything but NT and thus is stuck in the gap between being allowed an exemption but refusing to acknowledge this.
Won't wear a mask because of sensory processing disorder, won't accept the exemption because of autism.

Great news Covid. Hope you are successful. Bastards. Peddling propaganda.

We have a very ‘ pissed off with the situation’ top lawyer working for free

Hah and the DfE probably thought that your thread was one of the safer to post on.

@Covidfears

We have a very ‘ pissed off with the situation’ top lawyer working for free

Interesting!

There are no strict safety measures in place in my school. It is practically business as usual.

The comment about people in education power not being from teaching is key. That's the problem and whoever wrote the guidelines were not from the shop floor.

It was Dr jenny harries, early on saying because pupils sat facing forward, we didn't need masks that really brought that home to me.

Seemingly not only removed from the reality of a classroom but also humanity itself in that humans have, necks, and turn them to speak to people.

My school is pretty strict. I see no other adults apart from when we pass across the playground, and we have to leave at the end of school and work from home in the afternoon/evening. I teach in freezing classrooms with all the windows open and can't go closer than 2 metres to the students, hand anything out or collect anything in. We've only had one case so far among staff or students (outer London Borough) not sure if it's luck or if we really are doing more safety measures than other schools.

A lot of them have hardly ever been in a state school either I think. And make decisions based on their public school memories - not the crowded school corridors of reality.

I’m sure I’ll be shouting into an echo chamber here too, but to repeat from the other thread:

My area (just outside greater Manchester) hit rates of about 500 per 100000 in October, we’re now white on the map so very few cases. It has one large secondary and five primaries - there’s been a smattering of year groups out throughout the schools, but they’ve been largely open. Here at least it’s clear the lockdown has worked - it was adults spreading covid, not the kids... They’re not large modern buildings either, just standard schools. Half term was a week, cases started to fall before and continued afterwards. And before someone says it, I’m not after murdering teachers my DH is one.