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Secondary schools are stuffed, GOVERNMENT ADMITS

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noblegiraffe · 10/12/2020 17:42

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55265098

Mass testing for secondary school pupils in worst affected areas.

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noblegiraffe · 12/12/2020 00:04

What did they do over the summer?

What was printed in the news was largely lies.

And wanting a safe workplace for their workers is literally their job so there shouldn’t be any complaints about that bit. Teachers are catching covid at a rate of knots so they were right to raise concerns.

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Zandathepanda · 12/12/2020 00:56

I would like to see a graph line of Yr11-Yr13.
That would be far higher % than any other age bracket. I know far more school children than uni students that have/have had it.

MissMissICantDoThis · 12/12/2020 07:21

We have just had to close our primary school. We had many children going off with tummy ache. Some got tested and all have tested positive for covid. 6 teachers have now gone down with the classic symptoms and tested positive with more to come I expect.

Piggywaspushed · 12/12/2020 07:22

Wow!

Danglingmod · 12/12/2020 07:25

Doesn't surprise me, Missmiss.

Soooooo many tummy aches in year 7, it's unreal. Then, bam, one tests positive (or their parent) and none of the others get a test.

gingerbiscuitandacuppatea · 12/12/2020 07:44

I'm really worried that dd's secondary has decided to reduce measures in January and allow the bottom three and top four year groups mix several times a day in indoor spaces where face coverings will not be used.

Apparently this is because they feel they have been over cautious. They claim there has been no spread in school, but it's impossible to tell without testing for asymptomatic cases. We had a partial school closure because there was no staff at one point!

Government guidance doesn't sem to have changed? Surely now that there is more awareness of the high levels within secondary school students school should be looking at increasing meaures, or keeping them in place at the minimum if they have worked.

Itisasecret · 12/12/2020 07:59

I think the insistence that it doesn’t spread in primary as well as secondary isn’t helping either.

It’s just different or asymptomatic, you can literally see it ‘rip through’. My niece’s pre school closed last week. 6 cases of Covid in children, 1 symptomatic and the others only discovered because parents tested just because. Then shortly after the adults came down with it too.

Susanwouldntlikeit · 12/12/2020 08:26

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Susanwouldntlikeit · 12/12/2020 08:28

That is - one teacher and two children since schools returned in September, none currently.

ineedaholidaynow · 12/12/2020 08:41

Think schools are a little premature relaxing the rules straight after Christmas. I would want to wait and see the impact of many households mixing.

My area had no positive cases in schools before half term, they have been steadily increasing in the last few weeks.

ChloeDecker · 12/12/2020 08:54

@Susanwouldntlikeit

That is - one teacher and two children since schools returned in September, none currently.
Figured out what kind of school you work in yet!? How can anyone believe you now!?

The brass neck I tell you!

motherrunner · 12/12/2020 09:03

@ineedaholidaynow

Think schools are a little premature relaxing the rules straight after Christmas. I would want to wait and see the impact of many households mixing.

My area had no positive cases in schools before half term, they have been steadily increasing in the last few weeks.

Unfortunately my school will be relaxing the rules after Christmas as our budget for extra cleaning could only cover one term. We teaching staff have been doing extra duties this term to help keep bubbles separate. Again our directed time allowance only meant this could cover one term. It really will be a return to pre-Covid schooling after January. This is a worry as we haven’t been fully open to all years since Sept and that’s with all those extra measures.
mrshoho · 12/12/2020 09:05

this gem popped up on my Facebook this morning. An ad from dfe about the importance of children bring in school right up to the last day of teaching. Tell that to all those isolating at home!

Secondary schools are stuffed, GOVERNMENT ADMITS
CallmeAngelina · 12/12/2020 09:06

Jesus Christ!
Schools are seriously relaxing measures for January? As we head into what is arguably the worst term of all and after a Christmas that will have had so many people mixing?

Danglingmod · 12/12/2020 09:07

Blimey.

That is worrying. It's going to be worse than ever next termSad.

Business as (Covid) usual for us in January. Senior staff are doing all the extra duties. Cleaning in the middle of the day is budgeted for the year.

motherrunner · 12/12/2020 09:08

@CallmeAngelina

Jesus Christ! Schools are seriously relaxing measures for January? As we head into what is arguably the worst term of all and after a Christmas that will have had so many people mixing?
We have to. There’s no choice. We’ve maxed out directed hours allocation for extra duties and the budget has been blown on cleaning for one term. I would be panicking for January but I’m just exhausted and desperate for end of term.
ChloeDecker · 12/12/2020 09:10

This is where the government scandal of not providing schools with a ‘Covid budget’ is downright dangerous.

mrshoho · 12/12/2020 09:11

@Susanwouldntlikeit

secondary has decided to reduce measures in January Same here as our school has - still- only one positive case in a teacher and two in children -many have tested now but no positive cases. Re ‘long covid’ - the new tactic for scaring people’ you can imagine all sorts of scenarios but the long term consequences of nothing are known -the long term consequences of terrifying small children into wearing masks by obsessive parents who scandalously peddle guilt to the poor kids making them ‘scared to take it home and kill their grandparents. Most parents luckily are not so gullible or so cruel and despite all the desperate attempts to terrify them with ‘long covid’ - they can see through that one!
What area of the country are you in?
motherrunner · 12/12/2020 09:12

@mrshoho My school is relaxing measures. I’m in West Mids Tier 3.

ChloeDecker · 12/12/2020 09:14

mrshoho
You wouldn’t be able to believe her if she told you as she keeps changing her story.

An example: telling people she works in an independent school on one thread and telling us again in another thread that she works in a state secondary (not academy of course) to try to embellish her point.

Walkaround · 12/12/2020 09:15

I think @Susanwouldntlikeit lives in Russia.

CallmeAngelina · 12/12/2020 09:19

Scroll on by, ladies.

ChloeDecker · 12/12/2020 09:23

Sorry, you’re right CallmeAngelina

mrshoho · 12/12/2020 09:36

[quote motherrunner]@mrshoho My school is relaxing measures. I’m in West Mids Tier 3.[/quote]
I don't blame you for not wanting to think that far ahead but it's depressing if this is what the new year is going to bring.

I'm going to ignore shit stirrer Susan.