We're having 2-3 teachers a day catching CV19 DFE You're not keeping us safe

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I've circled where we fall in classrooms. It's time for face coverings in classrooms. I don't want to loose any colleagues or my own life.

DfE are worse than useless.

We're actually the bit circled here...long time exposure.

The government don't give a shit about us.

It’s probably more than that.
We are in tier 2, in the past 2 weeks alone we have had 4 teachers at my school catch covid. I know for certain at least three of them were going nowhere else other than school and home.

We're tier 2 and heading for tier 3 soon. We've managed to avoid having any contact with positive cases, until last week; a teacher at DS's school. The Headteacher admitted it's not possible for teachers to avoid some overlap during the working day. The school is now awaiting tests for another teacher and a student. Considering my DH is ECV, we've been dreading this. The teachers are amazing, so I just hope they're all okay considering most of them are over 40.

The DfE are not only negligent in their duty to kept us safe, I think the actions they are taking to cover up the data relating to how unsafe schools are will end up in court.

Gavin Williamson has already been found to have acted illegally once in this lockdown.

I agree. There is no attempt to keep staff safe. Data on the true situation in schools is not being shared in the public domain. It is a disgrace.

Agree.

It's very hard for children to remember and take on all the dangers of not sd and it's impossible for teachers to repeat and police their warnings and physical body movements as well.

They don't have the benefit of experience and for the ones that do, maybe a vulnerable family member it's very worrying for them.

To think they won't even contemplate masks, not even for a short time to get us through winter.

One of DPs colleagues (FE lecturer) is currently in hospital on a ventilator. He's been nowhere bar work and ASDA for months. Terrifying and we're constantly wondering who will be next.

My school have fully supported staff wearing face masks around school and in lessons (if we have a student with hearing impairment then we just take them off) since October and visors were provided and mandatory before that. The DFE are useless and schools need to step in and protect their employees.

The only two people I know who've had it work at schools.

We are encouraged to wear face masks in the lessons. Not when teaching on the board but when walking over to students to help. But I don’t think it is making much difference.
I want to see (voluntary) weekly testing for all school staff and secondary schools students. That will be the biggest driver in cutting down asymptomatic spreading I believe.
If they could manage weekly testing for nhs and care home staff 6 months ago, why can they not bring this into schools? I fail to understand why we have been completely forgotten about

Hp, agree, it seems like duty of care to staff and pupils has flown out the window.

My nephew’s secondary school are one of the few local schools that have insisted all pupils where masks all day since they returned in September. They have recently had to close due to 7 teachers and 57 pupils testing positive!

We don’t matter. We are expendable.

‘Wear masks’ that should say

You won't get much sympathy on here. So long as people can send their kids into school they're not fussed. Teachers are considered to be moaning & need to just get on with it. If they mention that school is responsible for transmission of covid they're accused of wanting schools to close

Until their little darling has no teacher.

Me and 15 colleagues have caught it in the last 2 weeks at our small secondary. We've had to close.

School have been really supportive BUT this week have suddenly been at pains to point out that 15 of the 16 of us have school age children. So of course we can't have got it from school

I don't want schools to close but I want students to wear masks in lessons in addition to everywhere else. It's like it magically disappears in the classroom. I feel very neglected, unvalued and like my life and my colleagues lives don't matter one bit

I am awaiting a test result. I have textbook symptoms. If I am positive I have probably caught it in school. I do not go anywhere else except work (school). I have my weekly food shop delivered and I do not use public transport. I wear a mask 90% of the time when I'm teaching. I always wear a mask in corridors/walking around the site. I religiously have all external doors and windows open to my classroom. Covid 19 is burning through my school.

My son is a secondary school teacher, he's just finished self-isolating after a TA he worked with caught Covid. Fortunately he didn't get it but he's gone back to school and I'm pretty scared for him to be honest.

I wonder if to get our point across we need to protest (socially distanced) outside parliament?