75% of my school are in

[ReginaPhalangee]

That's it in a nutshell. Three quarters of my school are classed as keyworker or vulnerable. Might as well chuck the other 50 in and be done with it.

Lockdown 1... 12 children.

No PPE and we've got to double our workload for the ones needing remote learning whilst we are teaching our classes. And then making phone calls to check on them.

It's the same for every school in my area.

Yes ok, all doctors and nurses please walk off the job and keep your kids at home

Strawman argument.

My dad and sister are both doctors. Yes, they would refuse to go to work if it was unsafe. My dad is 70+, so he does less patient facing work. Teachers were told they just had to teach. My sister had to work in a covid ward. If she hadn't had proper PPE, she would not have been able to set foot on the ward. My BIL is a GP. He sees circa 4 patients face to face every day at the moment, compared to many, many more pre covid. They have mainly gone online, like schools are now.

Opening a can of tuna isn't safe, I could lacerate my self on the wrist and cause an arterial bleed, please can we ban canned tuna?

@whittystitties and if too many people send their children in we will see the numbers spiral too as the children will spread the virus

@TrustTheGeneGenie

Oh I dunno, they could do what everyone else is doing and WFH whilst doing child care. Plenty of people managed it for 4 months last year

and yet everyone would complain if their accounts got fucked up / were late because they're trying to do two FT jobs at once, wouldn't they?

this rhetoric of "oh you can work from home and look after your kids simultaneously" is utter bollocks. Its awful for everyone involved.

If you're work is giving you no allowances to WFH - because it is so important that employers have realistic expectations of those with kids - and making you work 2 jobs, you need to take it up with HR, not fob the problem off onto your child's teacher

We have overegged the safety aspect as hospitalisation is too high.

When it’s lower we’ll all be gadding about. Vaccine will change risk for some but even those that haven’t had it will change, willing to bet.

[quote ineedaholidaynow]@whittystitties and if too many people send their children in we will see the numbers spiral too as the children will spread the virus[/quote]
Does anyone realise this post is a shock post a schools are not, in the main, running at 75% capacity, it's all ridiculous hyperbole

you need to take it up with HR

No HR in my place of work.

When it’s lower we’ll all be gadding about. Vaccine will change risk for some but even those that haven’t had it will change, willing to bet.

I hope you are right. The fear on here right now is mental.

Our local schools are struggling with numbers and are looking at the possibility of changing the criteria so can restrict numbers. They are not 75% but cannot SD in the classroom. If they can't SD in the classroom the virus will spread. Most classrooms will need to be 25% only to enable SD

@ineedaholidaynow

Our local schools are struggling with numbers and are looking at the possibility of changing the criteria so can restrict numbers. They are not 75% but cannot SD in the classroom. If they can't SD in the classroom the virus will spread. Most classrooms will need to be 25% only to enable SD

Simple cure for this, lateral flow tests

Yes they could , HR at best might be able to do nothing about it worse case is at the next round of redundancy they will be on the list to go. Great idea.

Yes they could , HR at best might be able to do nothing about it worse case is at the next round of redundancy they will be on the list to go. Great idea.

Exactly. Forcing families with small children disproportionately into poverty sounds like a super approach.

@ AudreyAubergine

Costs for better word of mouth personal referral nanny tutors have peaked in central London! Supply and demand I suppose as just like the demand for private rapid 99% accurate home self administer blood test kits to visit family. There used to be much advertising at my child’s school but now these agencies are not even responding to email requests! A good alternative for teacher assistance to get regularly tested and jump on the hot selling private tutoring and care care market! One positive from the otherwise pandemic doom and gloom.

Schools with no social distancing will not be open for too long as facilitating mutating asymptomatic Covid tag roulette. Let’s hope the new vaccines can still defeat the mutations and also the older more vulnerable teachers are not impacted as much. However it will continue unchecked untested until someone falls seriously ill or the child brings it back home to then compromise the home fortress. There is probably a reason why it is spreading out of control.

Schools are either safe or too dangerous? Any guesses?

@TheKeatingFive

you need to take it up with HR

No HR in my place of work.

Well whoever then, you still have legal rights. If you were being harrassed who would you go to to complain? Speak to them if your work are being inflexibleZ

Some people clearly don't live in the real world now do they

Well whoever then, you still have legal rights

I work in a small consultancy business. I am one of only a small number of fee earners. I don’t do my job, we can’t afford to keep 5/6 other members of the team on. People’s livelihoods depend on this.

People bleating about ‘rights’ have no clue how these types of businesses work.

Some people clearly don't live in the real world now do they

It’s unreal

@TheKeatingFive

Well whoever then, you still have legal rights

I work in a small consultancy business. I am one of only a small number of fee earners. I don’t do my job, we can’t afford to keep 5/6 other members of the team on. People’s livelihoods depend on this.

People bleating about ‘rights’ have no clue how these types of businesses work.

I think there is a very low number of posters who get this.

And do Gav has come out and said if home schooling is poor quality then he'll send Ofsted in... now teachers are all moaning about this instead

Unbelievable

@Billie18
"Feministicon
Are you primary? I work in secondary and no teachers have to come in, it’s the support staff who have to sit and watch the students on their laptops.."
"How strange? Why can't the teachers teach?"

At my school they are teaching remotely--full class schedule from home.

What sort of complaints do you think Ofsted will get @whittystitties? You just need to look at all the threads on here to see the differences in parents' expectations etc. Too much work, too little work, how can they expect us to monitor a child doing a live timetable, why do they expect a child to attend registration in the morning, why isn't my school providing 'live' lessons, how do they expect my child to attend 'live' lessons and so on.

@ineedaholidaynow

What sort of complaints do you think Ofsted will get *@whittystitties*? You just need to look at all the threads on here to see the differences in parents' expectations etc. Too much work, too little work, how can they expect us to monitor a child doing a live timetable, why do they expect a child to attend registration in the morning, why isn't my school providing 'live' lessons, how do they expect my child to attend 'live' lessons and so on.

People will always complain

"Bleating about rights" is what took us from paying small children a pittance to work in brutal conditions, to where we are now though. They aren't saying they want a big fat pension or increased salary; they want to work in safe conditions.

You say "bleating about rights" and "the fear on here is mental" and imply that nobody knows what's REALLY going on, except for you and the posters on here who agree with you. I wonder how much you truly understand about all of this, to be so confident in your assertions. Based on what you've written here, I'd wager you understand this pandemic a lot less than you think you do.

I do think a balance has to be struck, of course. We can't let the economy tank or leave people to starve. But, jeering at people, who are rightly afraid of catching this at work, isn't actually helpful or particularly clever. Maybe it makes you feel a bit better though. Quite a sad thought but you know. Snarkies gonna snark.

"Bleating about rights" is what took us from paying small children a pittance to work in brutal conditions, to where we are now though. They aren't saying they want a big fat pension or increased salary; they want to work in safe conditions.

My comment was in reference to another posters reference to my rights.

Which, I can assure you, within a business I deeply care about, are in no way violated.

There's a lot of work to rule sentiment about - we aren't the French