Schools in meltdown. Put your kids in masks

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Long story short

First case May 10.
By May 17 th, half of all year groups at home. Many staff sick. Some departments have no staff at all. Some students sent home for lack of staff, rather than quarantine.
20th May. School closed. Half term brought forward one week
31 May. Reopen.
1 June several more cases identified
3rd June. All lower school sent home. Year 10 and 12 kept in only. Masks, which had been optional, are now made compulsory again. Too late
7th June. School closed again. I am now teaching online

So in the last few weeks, I have spent 3x longer on COVID related activities than on teaching. Including trying to get students home when classes close, and they can’t use public transport. Teaching doubled up classes, 30 online, and 30 in front of me, because there are hardly any staff in. Administering tests. Taking students to and from the testing site. Recording results. Cramming information in subjects I know nothing about, but have been told I am about to teach. Much of the time students have just been told to read in silence, while we get on with our main business, as a covid testing site.

So please put masks on your children. There is no reason for a secondary aged child not to have a mask on their face, and a spare in their bag, and a spare spare.

And please support what’s schools are trying to do to enforce masks.

I see so many posts of mothers up in arms about masks. We are desperately fighting to keep education going, and we need your support

I belong to a MAT composed of 3 large secondary schools. Within our 3 schools we have:

A 15 year old boy who developed type 1 diabetes when he caught Covid

An 18 year old girl who lost most of her hearing through covid

A 14 year old boy whose heart has been left so damaged by covid he might need a transplant.

It’s heartbreaking.

Yr 4 wearing masks in France, so is my poor year 2. And sorry but the teachers have had plenty of time to get vaccinated here so I have zero sympathy. In fact my anger is growing for the fact they won’t join together and put a stop to it. It’s oppressive. The sight of almost an entire school of primary age kids coming out at the end of a hot day looking tired, void of any happiness or excitement is quite frankly upsetting.

Yeah

Ah I shouldn’t have given u that cop out 😂

Teachers should have been offered vaccine earlier, but that’s derailing the ‘argument’ a lot.

The average age of death from covid is the same as the average U.K. life expectancy, do you know any 81 year old teachers? Similarly I would argue that many regular childhood illness could prove just as dangerous to a very vulnerable person as covid (whether the vulnerable person is the teacher or someone they live with) so why do teachers only worry about this virus?

France were in a different stage of exponential growth and different stage with vaccines 😴

Well it’s been the case since October last year, between which time, cases have gone up, then down and then up and down again. What a great job these masks are doing

I wish I could think in such simple terms. Life must be good that way. Glad we have scientists 🙂

A lot of teachers are still unvaccinated or half vaccinated I think you will find.

Yes scientists are great. Just a shame we don’t have any scientific querying allowed anymore. If your a scientist that’s not saying that covid will kill everyone, that everyone needs to wear a mask forever and that normal life can never resume again then you are swiftly silenced and discredited, no matter what your credentials.

Vast majority of other jobs don't cram into tiny room with lots of unmasked people.

It's a failure if employer protection in my view. If they are not needed why do other people have masks at work?

Agree. There are so many factors to consider in this debate aren’t there?

But so what if half of teachers aren’t vaccinated? Since most adults under 65 will get little to no symptoms, who cares? Do they all take the flu vaccine each year? Or get a chicken pox vaccine if they’ve never had it before?
I’m not bashing teachers, I’m just trying to restore some perspective. You have clearly been influenced by the ‘stay at home’ crew and so think anyone who gets covid will end up on a ventilator of dead.

Why are teachers not afforded same protection as other workers?

I can see future class actions being brought against the government. Some people have died.

Nobody is saying, “We’re ALL going to die!”

Glad we have economists too.

And limited number of trained, experienced hospital staff, high tech equipment, ambulance services, call handlers etc etc etc

And in the event of the unthinkable, hospital car parks.

It does not really matter if one individuals odds of dying are low. They should still be afforded the same protection as other jobs.

Teachers are protected by virtue of their average age.

I’m off, your talking shite

I’m not beating around the bush anymore. People need to get a grip of their risk awareness. I’m fed up with living this way because people can’t get past the irrational fear and demand our lives back.

Bye 👋

Ah. Teachers have a magic force field which will defeat new variant. Excellent.

That will means schools won't close and no pupils will have to isolate. Oh hang on....

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Long story short

First case May 10.
By May 17 th, half of all year groups at home. Many staff sick. Some departments have no staff at all. Some students sent home for lack of staff, rather than quarantine.
20th May. School closed. Half term brought forward one week
31 May. Reopen.
1 June several more cases identified
3rd June. All lower school sent home. Year 10 and 12 kept in only. Masks, which had been optional, are now made compulsory again. Too late
7th June. School closed again. I am now teaching online

So in the last few weeks, I have spent 3x longer on COVID related activities than on teaching. Including trying to get students home when classes close, and they can’t use public transport. Teaching doubled up classes, 30 online, and 30 in front of me, because there are hardly any staff in. Administering tests. Taking students to and from the testing site. Recording results. Cramming information in subjects I know nothing about, but have been told I am about to teach. Much of the time students have just been told to read in silence, while we get on with our main business, as a covid testing site.

So please put masks on your children. There is no reason for a secondary aged child not to have a mask on their face, and a spare in their bag, and a spare spare.

And please support what’s schools are trying to do to enforce masks.

I see so many posts of mothers up in arms about masks. We are desperately fighting to keep education going, and we need your support

I belong to a MAT composed of 3 large secondary schools. Within our 3 schools we have:

A 15 year old boy who developed type 1 diabetes when he caught Covid

An 18 year old girl who lost most of her hearing through covid

A 14 year old boy whose heart has been left so damaged by covid he might need a transplant.

It’s heartbreaking.

I support you

Yes they do, the magic force field is called their immune system

And schools wouldn’t have to close or pupils isolate if the country stopped being obsessed with covid and got on with life as before. Occasionally a pupil or two would be off ill and then be back in and maybe they had covid, or maybe they had a cold, or hand foot and mouth or chicken pox or a bit of a gastro bug doing the rounds. Oh hang on, that’s how it used to be. Can’t possibly go back to that when there’s a different coronavirus circulating….

That immune system hasn't worked for some of them.

And schools wouldn’t have to close or pupils isolate if the country stopped being obsessed with covid and got on with life as before.

It'd just be the hospitals closing, then? 🤦‍♀️