Teachers are getting COVID at three times the rate of their local community

[OwlWearingGlasses]

Please keep your child at home unless absolutely necessary or vulnerability.

www.tes.com/news/exclusive-coronavirus-schools-teacher-covid-rates-333-above-average

Those more at risk include shop workers with 5 times the local average infection rate, and health workers with 9 times the local average.

Where’s this data from, jcyclops? The teacher data had to be prised from the grip of individual councils via FOI request due to the govt refusing to release it so if there’s data available out there I’d be really interested to see it.

@Wakeupin2022

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4130830-If-you-didn-t-send-your-kids-to-school-in-the-summer-term-but-are-sending-them-now-please-explain-why

There you go!

Well you rather mis-represented that post, didn't you?

First lockdown I didn't have to teach live lessons, so I was able to work early mornings and evenings, and supervise/home school 6yo dd during the day while dp working. Now I am online doing live lessons all day so dd is going to school.

I know I'm very lucky as if I was in meetings all day in a non- key worker role I'd just have to suck it up and leave dd in front of the TV all day (dp not a key worker but also in meetings all day).

She's not sending him in because otherwise he'd be in front of the TV all day. She's sending him in because she's doing on line lessons all day. The Tv thing was a projection about if she was WFH in a different kind of job.

@StrugglingICUnurse

I see your point. But as an ICU nurse I'm on mostly nights as most redeployed staff will only work day shifts reluctantly in ICU. I am permanently tired, anxious, tetchy, unable to concentrate. My child will go in on the days I need to sleep, if there's a day with a parent at home (awake) she stays at home. However I cannot physically or mentally cope without one day to recharge. I feel guilty but have booked DC into school one extra day next week.

Don't feel bad. You are critical and are needed in good health.

Teachers will get that. We know we may need you one day.

sara come on!

No I haven't and you know it!

Tell me where it says she or her husband are not both working from home!

But by your reckoning its ok for me to send my DC to school.

Dh out at work and me a KW at home in meetings all day.......

Mainly because schools are not closed at all The definition of keyworker is ridiculously wide and even if you are not a key worker all you need to do is say you have no IT and your children are allowed in

@LickEmbysmiling I don't have the energy to care. Sorry. Just keeping my head above water. Better to assume everyone is doing their best than worry about what I can't change.