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No school for us til 9th April at the earliest. Royally fucked off now.

725 replies

WeAreFromThePlanetDuplo · 18/02/2021 17:30

Announcement just made for NI that most kids won't be going back to school until after the Easter holidays, and there's no guarantee of that. So fed up.

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threatmatrix · 19/02/2021 20:14

I cant ever see the point of having kids you wouldn’t want with you all the time? I wonder if the birthdate round go town if there was no schools?

Monkeytennis97 · 19/02/2021 20:16

@Empressofthemundane

I’m sorry the children in NI. I hope England does go back on March 8.

I don’t understand posters who want to keep schools closed.

I don't understand posters who want to open schools fully when it's not safe to do so.
teamdebbievssorelosers · 19/02/2021 20:20

I cant ever see the point of having kids you wouldn’t want with you all the time? Confused

Kids are not puppies, they NEED a social life for their own sake.

teamdebbievssorelosers · 19/02/2021 20:21

I don't understand posters who want to open schools fully when it's not safe to do so.

so you never take your child in public transport, in a car, near stairs...?

Nothing is "safe". They still need a life.

MarshaBradyo · 19/02/2021 20:22

I cant ever see the point of having kids you wouldn’t want with you all the time?

Extreme view. Do you have dc?

Did you go to school or did your parents keep you home all the time.

Blueskiesdazzleme · 19/02/2021 20:28

@Hollyhead

Primary children must go back 8th March. I get that secondary is tricker, and think after Easter might be more sensible for them (plus they can get on with their own homeschooling at that age) maybe years 11 and 13 back on 8th too.

Working full time and facilitating 3 hours of year 1 and year 3 work each day is destroying me. I wish parents could actually strike against it.

Entirely this
icantthinkofanamehelp · 19/02/2021 20:32

I cant ever see the point of having kids you wouldn’t want with you all the time

Ffs. It's not about me..it's about my kids .

We didn't know we'd be parenting during a pandemic did we

TheKeatingFive · 19/02/2021 20:35

I cant ever see the point of having kids you wouldn’t want with you all the time?

While doing your full time job, so you have to park them on a screen and ignore them during calls and meetings?

That’s ... weird

teamdebbievssorelosers · 19/02/2021 20:35

If it was in my kids best interest to keep them, I would. Juggling work and homeschooling is irrelevant, that's what you do if you have to.

But keeping kids on near house arrest is against their best interest entirely. They need to go to school, want to go, and want their life back.

Primary schools are opened for half the kids already anyway.

Talkwhilstyouwalk · 19/02/2021 20:43

[quote Monkeytennis97]@Ylvamoon well, all the kids are that I am teaching live every day. Nothing has changed from regular school. The kids interact and participate. In fact there is more teaching and learning going on as there is less low level behaviour for me to deal with. Lots of positive parental emails too.[/quote]
I agree. My 4 year old has had 3 online lessons a day followed by assignments after each one. I'm sure she's put more work in at home with me there supervising than she would have done at school. Academically she's really come on, but I do want her back at school for the social side of things.

TheJerkStore · 19/02/2021 20:47

I cant ever see the point of having kids you wouldn’t want with you all the time?

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

So nobody with kids should ever go to work or have a social life??

Comments like these are just so bloody ignorant

expatinspain · 19/02/2021 20:59

I cant ever see the point of having kids you wouldn’t want with you all the time? I wonder if the birthdate round go town if there was no schools This wins the most ridiculous comment on this thread. Spending family time together is brilliant, but having your kids with you 24/7 isn't good for them or you. You should search codependency. Your ideas about relationships are unhealthy. Everyone, even kids, need their autonomy and independence. That's how we grow as people.

Woolff · 19/02/2021 21:09

@expatinspain

I cant ever see the point of having kids you wouldn’t want with you all the time? I wonder if the birthdate round go town if there was no schools This wins the most ridiculous comment on this thread. Spending family time together is brilliant, but having your kids with you 24/7 isn't good for them or you. You should search codependency. Your ideas about relationships are unhealthy. Everyone, even kids, need their autonomy and independence. That's how we grow as people.
Kids need their autonomy and independence. But we mustn't expect them to try for themselves work their teachers have explained and set, without actually being in the room with them.
takethegirloutofwales · 19/02/2021 21:12

If they could just wait until after Easter then I think most of us over 40s ie parents and a good number of teachers will have had the vaccine.

Mylittlepea · 19/02/2021 21:14

FFS, get the bloody schools back on March 8th. my year 10 DD is just about to give up on any motivation she ever had soon. Mental health is suffering in a big way.

I’m prepared to take the risk of the virus. Haven’t been within 2 metres of grandparents for almost a year now so what do we have to lose? Zero contact with anyone else outside our house.

Sick of it tbh.

cheninblanc · 19/02/2021 21:21

Mylittlepea well said

FidgetArse · 19/02/2021 21:24

Atleast NI has sense !!!

MmeLaraque · 19/02/2021 21:31

"I'm not a teacher/can't do this..."

Anyone who has successfully completed a courss of education shoudl be in a position to explain the content of that course to another person. If not, the education system has failed you badly. This is the criteria that tuition agencies use. This is the criteria that the PGCE/teacher training systems uses.

If you cannot manage to educate your own children, you need to start reading and educating yourselves. Perhaps you should have paid attention at school. Perhaps you had rubbish teachers. Either way, the resources are much better now. The Open university has "Open Learn" programmes. They're free. Anyone can register and sign up for individual free courses. There many courses, ranging from very basic, to more advanced. Try them. Don't assume your kids can't.
Kids are much mor eintelliegnt/resilient thgive them credit for. Let the kids look. Read. the course content.

excuse tpos: hand-eye coordination is shot... hopefully, most of you can read this anywya.
www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue

Yorkshiretolondon · 19/02/2021 21:40

@Bunnybigears

I dont understand why they can't do flexible schooling? I would prefer schools didnt go back completely until after Easter but why can't each year have 1 day in school and the other 4 working at home?
This is what schools wanted in the very first lockdown.... a rota system. I teach in a PRU and we have a rota system up and running seems to be working ok
MmeLaraque · 19/02/2021 21:40

@expatinspain

I cant ever see the point of having kids you wouldn’t want with you all the time? I wonder if the birthdate round go town if there was no schools This wins the most ridiculous comment on this thread. Spending family time together is brilliant, but having your kids with you 24/7 isn't good for them or you. You should search codependency. Your ideas about relationships are unhealthy. Everyone, even kids, need their autonomy and independence. That's how we grow as people.
You win the prize for ignorance. Go on...

Pre-covid, how many kids had to listen to their parents at the schoos gates say, "Bah.. holidays.. now what do I/we do? We can't cope..."

If parents can't coope with having children around, those parents shoud consider *not having children.

Poor kids. They listen to you. All the time. "Oh bugger.. school holidays.. what do we do for all those weeks?" Perhaps you could send time with your kids. Stop all the negative nastiness (oh yes, you do).

The hear you. Every time. Every day. "HOw do we coope? What do we do? " Enjoy spending time with your own kids. That shoudln't be a problem. If it is, ask yourself why.

TheJerkStore · 19/02/2021 21:52

[quote MmeLaraque]"I'm not a teacher/can't do this..."

Anyone who has successfully completed a courss of education shoudl be in a position to explain the content of that course to another person. If not, the education system has failed you badly. This is the criteria that tuition agencies use. This is the criteria that the PGCE/teacher training systems uses.

If you cannot manage to educate your own children, you need to start reading and educating yourselves. Perhaps you should have paid attention at school. Perhaps you had rubbish teachers. Either way, the resources are much better now. The Open university has "Open Learn" programmes. They're free. Anyone can register and sign up for individual free courses. There many courses, ranging from very basic, to more advanced. Try them. Don't assume your kids can't.
Kids are much mor eintelliegnt/resilient thgive them credit for. Let the kids look. Read. the course content.

excuse tpos: hand-eye coordination is shot... hopefully, most of you can read this anywya.
www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue[/quote]
And those of us who are working full time while trying to homeschool.
Theoretically I can teach the content and supervise live lessons but I can't be in two places at once.

Woolff · 19/02/2021 22:09

Let the school 'school' the children. If what they're offering is not up to scratch, speak to them.

But really when it works, kids are literally occupied listening to teachers, following their instructions and working with them, and when they log off, they're done.

I keep hearing on here that people aren't getting what they expect, but there's no way, as a teacher, I'd be able not to offer what my school say.

So, I log on and have conversations with my tutor group (meeting them was scrapped during face to face last term, they just went straight to their lessons so as not to mix bubbles) about their learning and wellbeing. I direct them to their lessons and teach mine. Typically, I literally talk for a few minutes, introduce new ideas, question the children, set them discussion tasks in breakout rooms, come back together, model what I want, do some with them, let them have a go on their own, come back together to give class feedback, check understanding... Basically what I would do in a normal lesson (including expecting them to persevere independently to show what they can do!) and there's no time for the students to opt out, because I speak to them and expect them to try, and mostly they do. If they don't completely, I manage behaviour like I would in class. That might mean speaking to parents later, but not during the lesson.

I can't see the part where parents are needed for input or struggling with something that doesn't involve them.

As long as they check kids are up and able to listen, as far as I'm concerned, it's over to me. And I don't know any colleagues who wouldn't expect the same.

TheJerkStore · 19/02/2021 22:12

DSs school is doing a fabulous job but he's 6. He can't do his work unsupervised.

Bedsheets4knickers · 19/02/2021 22:12

[quote MmeLaraque]"I'm not a teacher/can't do this..."

Anyone who has successfully completed a courss of education shoudl be in a position to explain the content of that course to another person. If not, the education system has failed you badly. This is the criteria that tuition agencies use. This is the criteria that the PGCE/teacher training systems uses.

If you cannot manage to educate your own children, you need to start reading and educating yourselves. Perhaps you should have paid attention at school. Perhaps you had rubbish teachers. Either way, the resources are much better now. The Open university has "Open Learn" programmes. They're free. Anyone can register and sign up for individual free courses. There many courses, ranging from very basic, to more advanced. Try them. Don't assume your kids can't.
Kids are much mor eintelliegnt/resilient thgive them credit for. Let the kids look. Read. the course content.

excuse tpos: hand-eye coordination is shot... hopefully, most of you can read this anywya.
www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue[/quote]
My god , you are the exact sort of person I hope I do not meet in RL ,

MarshaBradyo · 19/02/2021 22:13

Not all schools hand over to teacher in any live way.

Secondary yes here. But primary the dc don’t see the teacher to hand over.