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No more masks in classrooms - hurray!

912 replies

TeddingtonTrashbag · 07/05/2021 06:37

Hurray!
I am a secondary teacher and just hope it really happens.

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/05/06/exclusive-end-masks-classroom-boris-johnson-defies-unions/

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FrippEnos · 10/05/2021 20:15

TeddingtonTrashbag

Good to see that your argument has dropped to name calling.

Always a positive sign.

RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 10/05/2021 20:17

Will be interesting to see whether or not kids decide to still wear them. I'm primary, and around a third of my kids have worn them throughout, even though staff don't in the classroom.

MrsHamlet · 10/05/2021 20:19

the drama llama fringe can continue if they like.
Oh dear!

FrippEnos · 10/05/2021 20:19

RuleWithAWoodenFoot

We have had many pupils do the same.

Summerzz123 · 10/05/2021 20:19

I think it’s odd that there will be no serious mitigation’s, in a place where very few people will be vaccinated. So, even if, as we know, vaccines reduce transmission, this won’t make a difference in schools at all.

I think it’s not unreasonable to keep mask wearing, especially in older secondary school children, who have to wear when they’re at college..in a room with other kids the same age.

We still have to wear them elsewhere and we’re not sat in one place for a long period of time.

FrippEnos · 10/05/2021 20:21

Summerzz123
I think it’s odd that there will be no serious mitigation’s, in a place where very few people will be vaccinated. So, even if, as we know, vaccines reduce transmission, this won’t make a difference in schools at all.

Unfortunately your common sense approach will hold no sway with some.

noblegiraffe · 10/05/2021 20:21

They're going from colleges as well.

Julia9299 · 10/05/2021 20:24

I’m over the moon about this, and my child and most other kids and parents will be pleased. It’s a nightmare wearing a mask all day for them. A lot of the teachers say the same! Definitely not ideal to teach or learn wearing them. Great news, especially coming into summer where it would have been unbearable!

BustopherPonsonbyJones · 10/05/2021 20:27

I completely agree, @mrshoho. If it is safe for teachers to work like this, it’s safe for everyone. If it isn’t safe elsewhere, it isn’t safe in schools. Therefore, I will continue to teach wearing a mask and will stay well away from the unmasked children in my classroom. I will stop wearing a mask and stop keeping my distance when it is considered safe everywhere. I trust this government like I’d trust a fox in the chicken coop. If that makes me part of the ‘drama llama fringe’, I’ll pay my subs, take the badge and protect myself to the best of my ability.

SueSaid · 10/05/2021 20:31

'I’m over the moon about this, and my child and most other kids and parents will be pleased. It’s a nightmare wearing a mask all day for them. A lot of the teachers say the same! Definitely not ideal to teach or learn wearing them'

They really aren't that bad. I mean great that they aren't needed in schools anymore as infection rates are so low but a thin piece of material over a face just isn't the drama some make it.

I dread to think what reaction there will be if they have to be reintroduced in winter Shock

Lemons1571 · 10/05/2021 20:35

@BustopherPonsonbyJones you’ll know you’re safe, on the day the House of Commons chamber is full again.

Do you also have a magical strip of tape on the floor that the virus knows not to cross? And the state of the art ventilation system (aka ‘wedged open by an inch’ window)?

CallmeHendricks · 10/05/2021 20:39

Yes, I think that it's the ones making a ridiculous fuss about wearing masks, threatening to resign over the matter and so forth, who are perhaps the drama llamas.

FrippEnos · 10/05/2021 20:40

@Julia9299

I’m over the moon about this, and my child and most other kids and parents will be pleased. It’s a nightmare wearing a mask all day for them. A lot of the teachers say the same! Definitely not ideal to teach or learn wearing them. Great news, especially coming into summer where it would have been unbearable!
Good to know that you have asked everybody and the the science agrees with you.

But then anecdotes rule.

Toomanymuslins · 10/05/2021 20:41

I had no no intention of retiring! I just prefer teaching without a mask to teaching with a mask!

Toomanymuslins · 10/05/2021 20:41

Retiring. Wishful thinking!

Resigning!

CallmeHendricks · 10/05/2021 20:44

I wasn't suggesting you had, muslins.
But there has been a LOT of nonsense spouted on these types of threads over the last year. I thought we were over it all, but it seems not.

Toomanymuslins · 10/05/2021 20:47

U4T? They are bloody idiots. Masks are a PITA, though.

noblegiraffe · 10/05/2021 20:49

Oh yeah that teacher who said she would resign rather than wear a mask. I wonder what she's doing now?

AppleKatie · 10/05/2021 21:03

@AlmostSummer21 given that I’ve told an anecdote from the school corridor today less than a week since my test the answer to your question seems obvious?

WaverleyPirate · 10/05/2021 21:11

If it is safe for teachers to work like this, it’s safe for everyone. If it isn’t safe elsewhere, it isn’t safe in schools.

Completely agree. I notice Johnson sidestepped this issue when directly asked about it tonight. He can't provide a decent answer because it defies logic.

Xenia · 10/05/2021 21:11

It is really hard in masks for many people including for me. No one believes me but I am not making it up. May be some of us have a different respiratory system than others. Anyway no masks in schools from 17 May - deo gratias.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-57059407

WaverleyPirate · 10/05/2021 21:15

There are a lot of people willing to overlook the health of unvaccinated teachers and parents. Especially with the rise of the Indian variant.

They should have waited a month or so until everyone had at least the first vaccine.

Malteser71 · 10/05/2021 21:18

How old are the unvaccinated teachers and parents?

Are they vulnerable due to age/undying health?

If yes, why aren’t they vaccinated?

If no, what’s the issue?

CallmeHendricks · 10/05/2021 21:18

Look, no one likes wearing masks. I hate them, particularly when I'm wearing my glasses, as I can't read a word without them, but they steam up and I get all twitchy and panicky.
I've had both jabs, so I could easily think, "fuck it, I'm reasonably safe," but I will continue to plod on with the bloody things because it will help other people.

cantkeepawayforever · 10/05/2021 21:19

@WaverleyPirate

If it is safe for teachers to work like this, it’s safe for everyone. If it isn’t safe elsewhere, it isn’t safe in schools.

Completely agree. I notice Johnson sidestepped this issue when directly asked about it tonight. He can't provide a decent answer because it defies logic.

The thing is, the Government has worked out that it doesn't have to make things safe for teachers - teachers will teach anyway because they care about the children, and parents will blame teachers who make any form of complaint. The politicians can't lose.