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Exclusive: DfE considering delay to start of next term

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herecomestheSon · 16/12/2020 20:37

www.tes.com/news/exclusive-dfe-considering-delay-start-next-term?fbclid=IwAR1QLOa7VrpJz2QeOpMo90R45SfwOfIPsr9pI_SMYEoClaJwJuAjbGB9cB8

According to the Times Educational Supplement.

Yesterday the NEU teaching union urged the government to move teaching online for the first week of next term to give schools enough time to train staff in administering Covid-19 tests.

The Department for Education is expected to make an announcement about the potential later start tomorrow, according to sources close to the DfE.

I thought it would interest you lot.

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SmileEachDay · 18/12/2020 12:32

Where the fuck IS Gavin Williamson?

HE is the one who should be all over the media explaining just how spiffing it is that his department dropped this on teachers on the last/penultimate day of term.

noelgiraffe · 18/12/2020 12:34

Yeah, wheeling out Nick Gibb is pure cowardice.

Shame on you Gavin Williamson for not even owning your batshittery.

nosswith · 18/12/2020 14:37

There are some Secretary of State who have form for disappearing at controversial times, and Gavin Williamson is not alone with this. He will have learnt from Gideon aka George Osbourne who was a master at this, and then from Boris Johnson (remember the fridge episode).

herecomestheSon · 18/12/2020 17:47

Many on this thread who just seem to yet again shying away from the challenge to really do something almost patriotic. In the sense that they would really be serving their communities by keeping our children an teenagers in school

As opposed to teachers doing their patriotic duty by pointing out how much the government's plans are actually detrimental to kids' welfare?

And will cause spread of covid by stopping people isolating who have it?

Surely the government are the unpatriotic ones, with their corrupt promotion of cronies unfit for their jobs, like Dido Harding?

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RedToothBrush · 18/12/2020 18:12

Patrotric?

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

52andblue · 18/12/2020 18:42

Perfectly said @RedToothBrush !!!

Hear hear (if that doesn't sound too much like Tory Gammon noises)

nosswith · 18/12/2020 18:47

@herecomestheSon the U.S born Prime Minister or mass killer by neglect fortunately does not talk about patriotism too much.

If we had a proper test and trace system then this testing would have been done in September onwards.

MitziK · 18/12/2020 19:07

I agree. There will, be enough foolish staff in school, that want to please and will just do as they're told- whatever the detriment to themselves or the kids - that it will happen and become an extra part of all of our days

I think that is unfair.

I am on a yearly contract. It expires every year and is replaced by another - if the Governors decide to do so, based partly upon the reccommendation of the Head, who is going to take into consideration such little things as whether my punctuality is good, my sickness absence is acceptable, whether my work is accurate, the relationships I have with colleagues, children and parents, or whether I work to rule, refuse point blank to do things that are outside my job description (which conveniently includes 'Any other duties' and generally aren't as 'helpful' as somebody else desperate for a job might be.

I like to think that my current head wouldn't do any such thing to me, but I am acutely aware that I'm over a barrel if they decide I have to do 'Any other duties'. Because previous heads have done exactly that and moved on to more vulnerable staff who didn't have a permanent contract with them when I did refuse.

I think I may escape because I'm already doing something else that is bound by legal timescales and is absolutely critical. But if they decide otherwise, I'll have to work out how likely a middle aged, disabled, clinically vulnerable person is to walk into another job that uses my specific skillsets outside education in the middle of a pandemic before I respond.

greenlynx · 18/12/2020 21:21

Where the fuck IS Gavin Williamson?

He’s probably doing training now so he can volunteer in his DD’s school in January. As far as I remember one of his DDs in year 11.

Graciebobcat · 19/12/2020 04:18

@MitziK After a certain time you become a permanent employee. After two years unfair dismissal becomes available, they can't just keep you on rolling yearly contracts to avoid giving you permanent employee rights.

www.gov.uk/fixed-term-contracts/renewing-or-ending-a-fixedterm-contract

MitziK · 19/12/2020 11:09

[quote Graciebobcat]@MitziK After a certain time you become a permanent employee. After two years unfair dismissal becomes available, they can't just keep you on rolling yearly contracts to avoid giving you permanent employee rights.

www.gov.uk/fixed-term-contracts/renewing-or-ending-a-fixedterm-contract[/quote]
Thank you - yes, after four years. Which may help some people, but not all - which is why I feel it's unfair to call staff foolish when they could very easily be in a similar position.

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