No More Tiers (Enough is Enough)

[WaxOnFeckOff]

Here it is - thread 365 - was getting too twitchy....

Just catching up with the day - What a crock of shit that update was. Don’t really know how we’re meant to keep trying to work and homeschool for much longer? Have politicians really got no idea how hard this is? I just think I need to have a good cry about it. I’ll feel better then.

Also - bake, walk, sew, etc?

Great if you've got a spare couple of hours. Many people are struggling with work, home school, preschoolers.

When everyone is home 24 / 7 the house seems to be a riot too.

I'd love to have a spare couple of hours but reality I could do with an extra 4 or 5 hours in the day.
I really don't want to go back to doing my work in the evening but I can see it coming

@WouldBeGood

I just want my boy to see other kids.

It’s making me very sad

I hear you. We’ve tried to time our walks out for around post-lunch so we might just pass someone else he knows. Some days we do especially if I happen to mention on messages we are heading out for a walk, but they can’t play in any meaningful way out in public, we’d have the neighbourhood covid police onto us grown ups standing around looking after our young children who can’t be left alone other days we see nobody at all. Desperate times😒

I've just read that the SNP has written to the BBC to complain that it is being excluded from commentary on NS's briefings. Apparently representatives from opposition parties are invited to comment but not the SNP and this is 'deeply unfair'. I can't find any other word for that than 'unbelievable'.

@Iwillneverbesatisfied

DD in S2. They normally have their options choices in February. I wonder how they are going to do options choices discussions and form completion - any teachers on here know what their schools are doing?

Considering teaching has been different this year, that'll definitely influence subject choices.

Ds13 doing virtual options this week. Just taking info off google classroom and we get a zoom call with a pastoral teacher. It's a shit show but what can we do! Dd15 Nat 5's cancelled and now we face doing her Higher options from home too , what a mess

DS gets google classroom tasks, but it seems no feedback 🤷🏻‍♀️

Also - bake, walk, sew, etc?

it's like that other awful patronising advert saying that all you need to do to make it through the winter is light a candle and have a picnic tea!

Who makes up this shit?

Who makes up this shit?

Someone who the nearest they've came to having a baby is a "tiny tears" doll, and who has a very stereotypical view of working families.

@RaspberryCoulis

Also - bake, walk, sew, etc?

it's like that other awful patronising advert saying that all you need to do to make it through the winter is light a candle and have a picnic tea!

Who makes up this shit?

Wtf?! Who’s suggesting that?

lights a candle, has a gin and t

@Bytheloch kids are allowed to play together outside with socially distancing, and adults can meet with an adult from another household. Fuck anyone who has a problem with that!

My mum over 80 missed a call last week but was called today and appointment is this Thursday so things seem to be moving . South Lanarkshire. She was so excited said if she had champagne she would open it. Can’t remember her being that excited ever

I think it's one of those Parentclub Scotland advert with the same wuman that goes on about "peas in our house we call them footballs"

I don't even think it's completely about lack of lived experiences, it's just a complete lack of being able to empathise or put yourself in someone else's shoes.

I don't think they have any idea how galling it is seeing them go about their "normal-ish" work routine while the rest of us can't leave the house. I've never had to look after a person with care needs but I, and I bet most on here, can have a bit of understanding how difficult that will be in normal times never mind now. I bet most of us can imagine (or experience) how hard it must be living with job insecurity or losing our job with a family to support and the millions of other scenarios that we are all finding ourselves in. To have someone there saying they understand whilst simultaneously making it worse and clearly doesn't understand just makes me angry.

@Twintub that’s lovely ☺️

@WaxOnFeckOff wholehearted agree

Make a fucking candle.

Or walk on meadows in the mud desperately seeking other kids so mine can run about at least

It’s grim just grim

Mind you the meadows are full of desperate mums and dads just looking for others

I worry that DD will tell her pastoral care teacher she wants to do a subject that tbh won't get her anywhere. e.g hospitality only for her to never do hospitality in the future iykwim. In the past, I know you would have some kind of parents evening about options and I'd like something like that again.

I agree with you Wax On. I'd love to see some of them forced into SI for 10 days.

They might actually understand what life has become for the rest of us. Not necessarily become ill just be in contact with someone with a mild dose of covid.

@WaxOnFeckOff great post. It's astonishing how incapable of empathy some people are. I can't help thinking 'I know how hard this is' actually means 'stop complaining'. I'm an experienced TA with 3 dcs over 12. I can barely grasp how hard home schooling is for parents of primary children in reality so there's no way Nicola does!

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I don't think it's fair to simply say that they don't understand because they don't have children as that may not be by choice and to then to keep referring to that is a bit cruel. However, I think that whilst it's harder if you've not experienced something, it's not impossible to try to understand what that might be like.

I had an issue with a boss who was a single woman who had spent her life taking care of her parents and despite this she couldn't understand why someone who worked part time to be able to collect her (p1 and P2) kids from school, would have a problem travelling to Derby for at least one day a week when that meant I wasn't home in time and this would be random days. She knew I had no family nearby and a husband who worked in a job that he couldn't just decide to leave early. Funnily enough the assistant manager got it just based on having a cat. All i needed to say was, imagine that you can't leave your cat alone...

I'm glad you said that Wax, I've been silently cringing a bit at the childless comments, when NS had to publicly state that she'd had a miscarriage. The Tiny Tears comment was pretty brutal.

Well good luck teaching fractions to the cat, while ensuring the kitten doesn't die of boredom and do enough of your day job to make sure you still have a job next month!

I can't help thinking 'I know how hard this is' actually means 'stop complaining'

Snap. Totally agree. And all those people like Swinney, Sturgeon, Patrick Harvey and the wee laddie from the Greens who speaks on education have never had careers in the real world, worried about their jobs, struggling to pay the mortgage.

My kids are all secondary school too and that's hard enough. Currently in this house we have one parent working full time in the loft, pretty much on zoom calls all day every day from 8.30am to 5pm. Then there's me, trying to keep freelance work going and study part-time for my Masters. Luckily my kids are all able to crack on by themselves. Were they a decade younger, and aged 3, 5 and 8 I would be in BITS. Something would have to go, and it would be my earnings and my Masters.

So no Nicola, you don't understand. Not at all.