Always one isnt there

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Email last night from a parent wanting to know where the work is for their child to complete.
And so it begins

Some people have no clue

This week has been insane...teaching normal lessons while trying to prep 12 weeks with of work for 5 year groups. I just despair. Give us a chance FFS

Have they lost track of time?
Friday night?
It's the weekend FFS.

So tempting to reply "Work? What work? School is closed until September."

I wouldn’t have done this but I can understand their point. I think my dc’s teachers are amazing. I’ve never wanted to be a teacher or had any desire to home educate. I enjoy spending time with my chicken and I’m happy to do teacher directed homework with them. However I’m worried about working from home and trying to keep their education going. I’m worried I’ll fail them. Take care, and I’m sorry for all the teachers that still have to go in to school. Sounds like many are trying to abuse they keyworker definition.

blackdog19
I don't understand their point.

Schools were planning for staff/student absences as a precaution and then an announcement was made giving a couple of days notice of closure.

In that time the school staff had to get ready for a closure that isn't actually a closure (as some schools could have hundreds of students still in), support their y11/13 students who've had the rug pulled out from underneath them with no clue about their destinations, collate y11/13 data when not all staff are present, and still teach untill the end of yesterday.

Anyone asking where the work is within hours of the schools closing when many staff will be working at home most of the weekend to get things ready needs to have a lesson in common sense and consideration in my opinion.

Yep had this. By 7pm last night. We sent home stationery with a letter to say that work would be uploaded every Monday at 9AM. Every child was given their online learning passwords etc (again).
Moaning parent (she has form) wanted to know where the ‘learning pack’ was. I chased up another enquiry and repeated the info from the letter. Guess whether she thanked me...

Ds is home from nursery until further notice, and I've spent the last 3 days just planning for that so we dont all end up going insane. How teachers can be expected to plan for whole classes to be off for weeks and weeks in just a couple of days is beyond me. At this point I'm pretty sure all teachers, and school and nursery staff in general, are bloody heroes.

As a meme on FB said this morning: "Many parents are about to discover that the teacher was not the problem!"

Had one on the parent group on Friday asking why the school sent links weren't working yet. Someone pointed out the children were still in school so maybe wait until Monday 🤦‍♀️

We've had an email come into the school office over the weekend (via a Parent Rep).
A parent is insistent that she checks whether the parents can drop work done off at school to be marked. As the teachers are all in.

It beggars belief.