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What are your predictions for this school year?

466 replies

Sheepsheepmoresheep · 25/08/2021 11:35

Be interesting to look back. I didn’t think they’d close the schools again this time last year, but I was wrong!

I don’t think they’ll close the schools again … but we’ll see!

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PrincessNutNuts · 26/08/2021 21:59

@Watapalava

coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare

You can see here that dispute 900/day being admitted the number in hospital is low and as such most must be in and out as it’s been stable for a while

It was half what it is now 6 weeks ago.

On July 12th it was 3451.

Today it's 6,906.

Not everyone who leaves hospital does so under their own steam. Three or four thousand people have died of covid in the last six weeks.

Thewiseoneincognito · 26/08/2021 22:00

@sherrystrull

It really worries me how blasé and accepting lots of posters seem to be about the inevitability of school staff getting poorly and being off work for undetermined periods of time.
They don’t care as long as they don’t have to deal with the kids being at home. Quality of learning will be abysmal once classes are combined and staff sickness starts to bite.
mrshoho · 26/08/2021 22:01

No one wants schools shut on here either Confused

CallmeHendricks · 26/08/2021 22:02

@Dghgcotcitc, What on earth do you mean, "teachers want schools closed?"
Where have you got that idea from?

sherrystrull · 26/08/2021 22:08

@Dghgcotcitc

Teachers want school shut, parents want it open overall it will depend where business goes on the debate! I think they will come down on the side of open to help parents work and ensure a future workforce. That will swing the balance but business may support the shutting of schools to keep other businesses open (basics what the USA have done) it’s going to be a big debate certainly!
No teacher I know wants schools shut.
Getawaywithit · 26/08/2021 22:12

Are you not double vaccinated? Why on earth do kids need masks if you are double vaccinated. You’ll have a cold at most

I had it at the beginning of the holidays. Double vaxxed in May. Took me 18 days to feel I could have gone to work. It was bloody awful. Way more than a cold.

doorornottodoor · 26/08/2021 22:18

@Dghgcotcitc teachers DO NOT want schools shut- what nonsense. Angry

Refreshpage · 26/08/2021 22:26

[quote doorornottodoor]@Dghgcotcitc teachers DO NOT want schools shut- what nonsense. Angry[/quote]
This.

Teachers just want to be safe and able to teach that's all.

Watapalava · 26/08/2021 22:36

God all teachers have harped on about all year is that they want the vaccine

Now they have it they want xxxxx

Just get on with it like everyone else

BungleandGeorge · 26/08/2021 22:38

Tbh this thing is not just about teachers, or students, or their families. No group in society exists as a bubble and we’ve seen clearly that increased disease in one group permeates through to all groups including the most vulnerable. In the blink of an eye life can change and your family might be the unlucky ones who get really sick, or develop another disease with delay in treatment, or who are sat in an ambulance for hours waiting for emergency treatment.

mrshoho · 26/08/2021 22:41

@Watapalava

God all teachers have harped on about all year is that they want the vaccine

Now they have it they want xxxxx

Just get on with it like everyone else

This post was asking for predictions and people are expressing how they predict the school term will be. It's not teachers demanding anything!
Christmasfairy2020 · 26/08/2021 22:46

My dd did summer school as a transition for starting comp in September. She caught covid. Asymptomatic however only found put via a random lft I did. Her sister who is 6 caught it from her and was poorly with fever but other than that no issue. Why close schools when kids aren't poorly with it and teachers double vaccinated. Me and dh haven't caught it as obviously our vaccines have worked well

Watapalava · 26/08/2021 22:48

Actually those who’ve been on threads all year have appeared asking for masks and talking about massive disruption (highly unlikely), scaremongering about long covid (gov already dismissed), schools closing (most isolations were contacts not cases so won’t now happen) etc

I recognise the posters from all the school threads months ago

Honestly they need to change jobs

Watapalava · 26/08/2021 22:49

Christmas

Exactly

I only hope parents cotton onto this and stop the bloody random lft tests

doorornottodoor · 26/08/2021 22:50

@Watapalava teacher here, not harping on. Glad to get the vaccine. Delighted to be back in school, not very happy about the masks, hoping it all goes ok. School feels much more relaxed this year so far. Or maybe I’m just a bit resigned to catching it and now double jabbed am not scared. I have my own teenagers who need to be in school - they have not fared well in lockdown Sad

Rainuntilseptember15 · 26/08/2021 22:51

Cases every day in my school now, wasn't like this before the summer.

Rainuntilseptember15 · 26/08/2021 22:52

Not all teachers are, as yet, double vaccinated. Just saying as it's said so often that they all are and it's false.

doorornottodoor · 26/08/2021 22:54

Most are. Even my 18 year old is!

CampaignToo · 26/08/2021 22:55

The main disruption in schools was through contacts, so now they won't have to isolate, there shouldn't be the disruption.

However, if the isolation was working to keep cases down, we might see a lot more cases in schools, which may well lead to disruption. Anecdotally, at my school, we had hardly any onward transmission within school, but it's hard to know if that's because the safety measures worked or because the isolation worked.

It's really hard to call. I don't think staff need to be "scared" but it doesn't take many to be off before it gets hard for school to operate and even if they do only have cold symptoms after the vaccination, they'll still have to be away from work with this one.

So, I don't think there'll be widespread closing of schools because of sick children, but I do wonder if staff sickness absence will create operational problems which lead to partial school closures.

CampaignToo · 26/08/2021 22:57

@Rainuntilseptember15

Not all teachers are, as yet, double vaccinated. Just saying as it's said so often that they all are and it's false.
If they're not, why aren't they? Everyone who wants it and is old enough to be a teacher has had the opportunity now, except perhaps for a tiny minority with medical reasons not to have it.
minipie · 26/08/2021 23:51

So, I don't think there'll be widespread closing of schools because of sick children, but I do wonder if staff sickness absence will create operational problems which lead to partial school closures.

Yes I agree with this

Notonthestairs · 26/08/2021 23:55

Having a bit of a chuckle at Watapalava recognising names on CV threads given his/her prolific CV thread posting.

Nobody could accuse me of being a teacher 🙄 or a lockdown lover.

Truth is nobody knows how the next term will pan out. I'm fairly sure Whitty said Autumn/Winter will be bumpy so I accept that I'll have to adapt to circumstances.

But I'm keen to get my kids back in to some positive routine with their peers and teachers - lockdowns were disastrous for my family - and will be keeping my fingers well and truly crossed, as will most of MN I am sure.

BluebellsGreenbells · 27/08/2021 00:00

So, I don't think there'll be widespread closing of schools because of sick children

Yet there will be widespread closures of other businesses as parents isolate with their children.

User5827372728 · 27/08/2021 06:41

@CampaignToo

I’m 33 and just had my second jab last week. Not due to me being slow to book or unsure but because where I am it was bloody impossible to get an appointment! So at least I’ll be 3 weeks passed second Jab when I return but those younger than me might not be.

HalfShrunkMoreToGo · 27/08/2021 07:19

@BluebellsGreenbells

So, I don't think there'll be widespread closing of schools because of sick children

Yet there will be widespread closures of other businesses as parents isolate with their children.

This.

My 7yo was back at school 1 day, then on day 2 we all got notified that one of her classmates had tested positive. No one needs to isolate but they do want all kids to get a PCR.

  1. if she tests positive and needs to stay home then I need to stay home with her

  2. if 5 or more kids test positive then it may close the class completely according to the new DfE guidance, so that's 26 families with a child who needs to stay at home. I know of 11 children in her class who have siblings in other classes at the school and some of them have siblings in the local secondary schools. Likelihood of transmitting to unvaccinated siblings is high, so that's more classes potentially closed.

  3. even if double vaccinated teachers/TAs can still catch Covid and if they test positive they'll have to isolate. There is a limit on how many classes can be covered by supply teachers if the teacher/TA is isolating for 10 days. So that may also cause classes to close so that kids have to stay home and parents have to either WFH or take time off.