Classes of 45 anyone?

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Emergency measures to increase class sizes to cope with the Coronavirus crisis.

What’s the betting that they’ll say it worked so well, it needs to continue!

External exams will apparently have to go ahead in alternative venues if schools close :although quite how this resolves things is beyond me.

Maybe the government will ask for recently retired teachers to come back to hold the fort!

External exams will apparently have to go ahead in alternative venues if schools close :although quite how this resolves things is beyond me

Where have you read that-I’d like to read about their plans!!

Surely children and staff at schools would constitute a mass meeting of people? Which is the very thing you want to prevent, to stop the virus from spreading.

Maybe they could ask some of the many teachers who have left the profession to pop back for a bit?
I don’t see how exams taking place elsewhere helps either- surely if schools close it will be to stop it spreading or for lack of staff so....

It’s weird hearing yourself being used on the news in some battleplan without your knowledge or consent. The retired GPs who will be called into action must be feeling the same.

“Teachers will teach jumbo classes”
Teachers: “wait, what, where??”

It’s interesting (worrying) that the decision to close schools will be taken based on the hit to the economy and whether kids being sent home will mean that nurses can’t go to work, rather than whether it is prudent to minimise the spread among children.

So how do they get invigilators to work? They travel between schools/colleges/test centres daily, are in contact with hundreds of people a day and then move on to the next school/college/test centre.

Can't have exams if there aren't enough invigilators or they're found to be spreading it to thousands a week.

And what of support staff? You've probably got one or two people who deal with every sick or injured child in school. Who does that once they're in contact and have to isolate/ are ill?

Not just teachers, nurses or doctors on the pointy end of these plans.

Errr Government-"Teachers will teach jumbo classes"

Teachers "I'm feeling ill, not going in"

Realistically we won't finish teaching our GCSE syllabus until Easter at best, possibly even a week or two after. I would imagine that's the case for a lot of teachers and a lot of subjects so even if external exams did go ahead the grades would take a big hit if we had school closures/teacher absences etc in the next few weeks. The grade boundaries would have to be really low!

Teachers "I'm feeling ill, not going in

Definitely!

So what next? Hmmm, they’ll get Mrs supply teacher in to teach the massive class. She’s been to 10 different schools in the last fortnight-she’s never had so much work! She needs to work though obviously, as otherwise she won’t get paid. She’s struggling a bit today, as she’s got a bit of a cough...

It is 100% about keeping the economy and infrastructures going rather than about children and education. The impact of schools closing for a significant amount of time in a city or other community would be huge on local industry, health care and other public sector areas etc.

It will be childminding.

It will be childminding

In a germy breeding pool of large numbers of children.

This is craziness! Surely if it gets to the point that teachers are off with the virus, then the schools should shut rather then bunching classes together? 🙄 Pretty sure parents would start keeping their kids home then anyway tbh - I know I would 😬

If there’s anyone who can be relied upon to go into work when they’re ill, it’s teachers.

I'm in Asia and our school day has been adapted so that we don't have more than 22 kids in a room because large groups increase the risk of spreading a virus. So, 45 in a room won't help anything...

I'm in Asia and our school day has been adapted so that we don't have more than 22 kids in a room because large groups increase the risk of spreading a virus

That’s very interesting!

I bet you that will NEVER be mentioned by our government!!

I would imagine advice will be to keep schools open at any cost so that other people can still get out to work.

Absolutely bonkers suggestion. No way would I agree to it. I wonder what the unions are advising in this situation!

I am sure a lot of this advice about super sized classes is because they seem to believe kids have cast iron constitutions, will not get or spread CV and the remaining teachers will somehow corral them all together because nothing must ever ever stop children getting 'an education'. Except for term time holiday because, on MN those are FINE.

Probably not now, though, because they might bring back germs!!

Sorry, made antsy by the other thread! That's next level teacher bashing!

OP, I think I read the alternative venues thing in The Times yesterday.

Has anyone seen information about what exam boards might do?

School here has just been cancelled for the second week....

DS has been ill since the start of the year and school has said that they'll be sent home at the first cough or sniffle so he's going to be missing a lot of school even when they do go back. GCSE year.

Sorry, made antsy by the other thread! That's next level teacher bashing!

Other thread?

School here has just been cancelled for the second week....

Whereabouts are you?

This thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3836246-To-ask-why-the-school-needs-deep-cleaning-if-teacher-self-isolated

Teacher with coronavirus should be sacked for gross misconduct...

There's a thread about one of the cases in the UK. She is a teacher. Much hysteria has ensued including calling for her sacking.