How are teachers feeling now?

[ssd]

I've got an awful lot of sympathy for teachers in all this, I feel they've been hung out to dry. But hopefully the vaccine news and cases coming down will make them feel a bit better.
My kids have left school so I've got a general interest. .no bone to grind.

Or axe

Bone grinding seems harsh.

I've mucked up my own thread haven't I?

As you say, a bit reassured in the immediate by the current trajectory. But against a background of knowing that the government don't have our best interests and a worry that us (just) under 40 teachers might still have to go into the autumn term unvaccinated....really hope that is unfounded.

I'm waiting for a teacher to tell me

"Could do better"

Exhausted. That’s how I feel.

Overlooking the reference to making bonemeal of us of course

I'm completely fed up. I can mix with loads of children and colleagues but can't even meet my own family. The kids have to sit apart at school and can't do PE indoors but can play together out of school

@napody

As you say, a bit reassured in the immediate by the current trajectory. But against a background of knowing that the government don't have our best interests and a worry that us (just) under 40 teachers might still have to go into the autumn term unvaccinated....really hope that is unfounded.

Theres 17 million doses of moderna coming here in April, dont give up.

Weirdly, the over riding feeling is exhaustion if my colleagues and Twitter are anything to go on. The kid's behaviour is hard work, September x 2, and we're on 'gap find' in various forms for academic focus in terms 5 and 6. Definitely more concerned about social stuff than academic stuff.

Lots of teachers I know pretty much slept all day yesterday.

My school staff is being vaccinated today in a job lot.

I feel sad that I haven’t been able to see my own parents for over a year, but I am in a room with a lot of people, all happy to tell me how their families haven’t been following rules.

I'd forgotten teachers will be exhausted. I'm so worried about the virus I genuinely forget the amount of work teachers must have done and still be doing.
I feel for you all.

Fine, delighted to be back in school and relieved that the hell of talking to a screen for 5 hours a day is over.

I am however angry about that fact the schools have effectively set up their own in house examinations systems with very little guidance and will do all the work of this exam boards this year.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot how come all staff are being vaccinated?

Fed up. I'm in a friendship group with 5 other women. I'm 43 - they're all younger. They've all been vaccinated except me.
1 NHS manager. Wfh since last March
1 call centre manager (working normally so glad she's had it)
1 office worker wfh except one day when she goes in and sits in an office on her own
1 sahm with very mild asthma.
1 call centre worker who wfh since march

They're my friends. I love them and don't want to begrudge them at all. I'm back in the classroom. Teaching adults and young people 30 to a room with shit ventilation and have colleagues who were on ventilators

Feeling as safe as I can be since having first vaccine dose and all of us now in masks.

Completely exhausted again with trying to teach pupils in class and those at home shielding or isolating, trying to waylay fears of anxious exam years and not really looking forward to the next half term which will be a rolling programme of assessments so we have evidence for our CAGs. Thanks Gav, we are still doing ‘exams’ but now it’ll be the sheets who mark them - for no extra pay!

Ssd hadn’t seen that, thanks that is good news!

I love my job. But I hate it at the moment. Dread going to work. Want to cry as I arrive. Wearing a mask non-stop all day, trying to teach in it is awful. My throat really hurts from projecting my Voice even more than usual through the mask. I can’t drink when I need to the same because I can’t remove the mask. The students are reluctant to talk in class. When they do I can’t hear them properly. So there goes the usually vibrant class discussion. They sit there looking despondent. The older students don’t want to follow the rules and are rude about it. Not a problem we usually have in our school. I hate wandering around from room to room all day, setting everything up each lesson, feeling disorganised. I just want to be back in my room.

Sorry. Moan over. But in short, it’s really not fun

[quote satishoused]@RuleWithAWoodenFoot how come all staff are being vaccinated? [/quote]
Not sure about with @rule but school staff at my school were all vaccinated last week. Our local PHE contacted schools to book us in with spare vaccines.

I'm special school and having my second jab in 3 weeks. First was end of Jan.

Some Las have put together left over clinics as government insisted all SS stay open as normal and also we come under health and social care as they were kept open due to ehcp.

I feel as safe as I ever have. (Not very!) Been in all year and we've been lucky my class hasn't had it. But those classes with a case that got in have had it spread round like a flea on a pogo stick.

We are lucky though as have 10-14 people per room and 4/5 of those are adults.

I'm a primary teacher in a school nursery. We've been told visors are no longer considered safe enough (which I knew already but they are much more practical) and we must wear masks anytime we work closely with children which, when they are 3, is all the time. Except try having a conversation with a three year old, who may not speak much English or who has language delays, in a noisy room full of children playing with a mask over your face. They don't understand a thing I'm saying! So I end up lifting my mask to speak which renders it pointless. But I can't just wear a visor 🤷🏻‍♀️ It feels like another case of giving us unworkable rules for how to stay safe, because clearly working in close contact with dozens of children isn't particularly safe, so when we can't follow the rules, we can be blamed.

However on a positive note it's lovely to have the children back and lots of our more vulnerable teachers are beginning to get their jabs.

Should have said out LA argued we were health and social care as well as education. The government at top didn't!