Year twelves and 13s are screwed

[Northernsoulgirl45]

I am really cross. In dds school year 12 and 13s don't get cover teachers. Work is supposed to be set online.
Well today 3 of her teachers are off either with COVID or Self isolating. I really hope they are self isolating as one is pregnant and one is close to retirement.
She is supposed to be sitting an external exam in January and they haven't even looked at the main paper yet. No work for that subject online.
We are in a low case area which up to now only had a case or two in school .
Now we are in the middle of a big outbreak which will be replicated across the country and certain people on here want to abandon any mitigation in schools. So many kids are not getting an education right now and it is shit.
My younger two are already at home and feel my year 12 might as well be. Bearing in mind her year group were totally abandoned last year too.
Disclaimer I do not blame the school. They have done everything in their power to mitigate risk and fully expect work will appear online soon but as teachers on here keep on saying it is not enough.

If she hasn't seen this youtube channel yet, it is fabulous for support with maths A-level. Lots of videos of worked examples - even better if she's doing Edexcel and has the textbook.

www.youtube.com/channel/UCyyRmnmtgVy5Sm7_UiCLFgQ

I'm glad everything's working out, OP. It must have been so anxiety-provoking. I know that in my Melbourne school if I had to self-isolate, the system would immediately flip over into remote learning with me on Teams on a screen with a teacher in the room to supervise. However there would still be a problem with teaching materials, as my subject is not all digital and all my hard copy materials are in the building, so there would be a hiatus and maybe this is what happened in your case.

Glad to hear that there’s been an improvement OP.

Thanks everyone. Will get her to check it out @noblegiraffe.