Let's boycott all school threads outside of Education

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Honestly guys we are getting a kicking on other threads. We repeatedly have to explain our contracts, holidays, why we are not doing more online, why we should be doing less on ...... it is never ending. So far we have been off for the Easter break plus a max of two weeks. There is a lot of the population that do not need childcare. We are open for key worker children but that gets ignored. All the social distancing issues are ignored. All the ppe requirements are ignored. Now it could be that the trolls just see us as an easy target, hence all the forlough calls. So as a union member, I am requesting that teachers do not have to explain themselves on other threads as we are just fueling the fire. (I have been guilty of this).

So I am calling for a union boycott!

Omg pink I LOVE YOU!

Next open schools thread, throw this at them. Nhs workers don't want schools back, and they're our holy ones now.

www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-nhs-workers-call-keep-teachers-safe

I'm still crying with laughter at someone's comment that recently retired teachers might be keen to return to the chalkface. Not even during a normal school year, but during a fricking pandemic.

😂😂😂

We got a chocolate cake for a birthday last month, apparently it serves 16. Not in this house it doesn't It was the size of a side plate!

A bit of bashing going on from a couple of usual suspects in academics' corner about uni workloads and reopening. But nothing like the pile on. Sent kind vibes to our HE colleagues.

Why do they not get such a bashing though?
a) they don't work with the precious resource of children so MNers are less invested (unless they dare to go on strike, of course!)
b) importantly, their 'staffroom' is hidden away in Jobs.

HE doesn't provide childcare.
Not everyone has been through HE, so don't know how to do it better.

@Downton57 sorry, why is that funny that retired teachers are asked to come back but doctors and nurses are expected to do it and that’s more risky? So it’s ok for Health care workers who have a greater risk of dying?

Not RTFT. I don’t think school should go back until it is well and truly safe for the general population and teachers to do so.

Also several friends who always said they wanted to homeschool are now saying they really are struggling and don’t want to. I now it’s different as they are remote learning but I wanted to give both sides before I was jumped on.

My sister is a secondary teacher. She had not had to do a single KW kids shift yet as they have enough staff. She is only doing a few hours of work every few days, they are not having to teach virtual lessons or anything like that.

AmIAStone

I think you should go back and read the full thread and take a look at where this thread is. It’s not the thread you think it is.

@Downton57 sorry, why is that funny that retired teachers are asked to come back but doctors and nurses are expected to do it and that’s more risky? So it’s ok for Health care workers who have a greater risk of dying?

That was not the point/joke Downton was making. Nothing sinister going on.

Teachers, Could I ask a quick question when the children go back in September do you think that’ll be on the basis on 50% of the class one week the rest the next week, to better manage social distancing? it would be really interesting to hear your thoughts on what environmental changes can feasibly made to my child’s very average 8-900 capacity comprehensive I’m worried the fear that she’ll have going in to school if she’s sat just in her house for six months, I haven’t locked her in by the way she’s just a typical teenage girl who has no interest of walking the streets outside with no purpose
Ps she has occasionally gone on our treadmill so hopefully the muscle wastage won’t be too bad Lol!

worldsworststepfordwife

No one can answer that, I’m sorry. No one knows.

Just a side note. This is a Staffroom thread and not a general thread for the forum.

I don't think anyone can say how the government will decide to handle things. No one even knows when it will be yet. It would be nice to have a better idea but it's just not there.

Morning Staffroom!

Do we all have a coffee while we’re waiting for briefing? I fear we’ll be waiting a looooong time (what’s new there?).

I have avoided other threads this morning and come straight here.

Who’s on chairs for assembly today?

@AmIAStone Yes, obviously I find it hilarious that doctors, retired and otherwise, are risking their lives every day because of the government's failure to provide PPE. It's a particularly amusing time for me, as my daughter is a doctor in a covid ward. Now, go away.

Staff room Shit yes sorry will post elsewhere

A lot of homeschoolers very early on made the point that the transition from school to home Ed, especially for teachers, is very challenging as true home Ed is not structured in the same way.

Our schooled primary age children have never experienced home as a formal learning environment beyond piecemeal bits of homework.

There's a huge amount of home Ed forums and groups precisely because it's a way few of us learnt ourselves. It's like learning a whole new profession and way of life.

I have actually pushed the boat out and am having coffee made in a cafetiere with frothy milk rather an a cup of tea

I've never hidden so many threads on here in my life. But I see this one has also been taken over by 'my next door neighbour is a teacher and shes sitting in her arse in the back garden' brigade.

Ohhh Ihave I think I am going to do that now.

Sounds lovely.

I wish people would RTFT.

As a side I just asked two retired friends if they would return. One said absolutely not. The other said on supply for a day or two but probably not until next year.

Anecdotal I know.

Staff room Shit yes sorry will post elsewhere

Please don’t worry! It’s a very valid question. It’s just not the theme of the thread so probably wouldn’t be much use to you!

Take care and have a lovely day if you can and try not to worry.

I know I'm coming to this late but in my rl friends we regularly say how we think school staff are amazing.
Still being open even during the holidays to enable other front line staff to work knowing their children are cared for.
To me now isn't about educating it's about caring and reassuring children whose parents could possibly be in a hospital at the very front line.

I salute you all, appreciate you and today my 'lesson plan' is letting my 9yr old find a cake recipe, weigh it all out and make them herself. Surely that's maths, reading, independence, home economics and science 😊. She is then taking them to her school for the staff as she is worried about them. I'm also making masks to take to them as some sort of protection if they wish to use them.

Ignore the haters if they want to moan about the benefits and terms and conditions they could teach couldn't they (or maybe not).

So, after being thoroughly scolded on another thread yesterday when trying to point out a duplicate thread (after the OP explicitly asked, hey ho) and apologising , I am wondering what the next step is.

I come back to our boss's original idea of boycott, however frustrating those of us who want to engage find it:

The flowers are great but some find It puerile (this genuinely does not bother me but could encourage a pile on to agree) and not all teachers approve (but I still intend to do it but only as a direct response to actively deliberate teacher bashing posts)

Engaging in arguments gets the thread very quickly into Active, ironically backfiring by encouraging the pile on

Boycotts by teachers of any threads in AIBU/Coronavirus/ Chat on education matters might actually stop them from getting into active.

One of the livelier threads actually went all quiet yesterday when not one teacher answered the journalist'sOP's call from teachers to 'hear from them' so tactical ignoring does seem quite a good option. I think lola would find this especially hard, though, because she is always so thorough and helpful

It ahs always been noticeable over the years that the rare 'teachers are lovely' threads get ignored, and even ignored by teachers. Let's make sure we acknowledge and thanks those posters.

Thoughts?

@DBML I very nearly caved last night but might have one tonight.

Anyne else feeling a bit meh?
I am usually good at organising my to do lists and cracking on but today I am just staring blankly at my PC with zero motivation and feeling so so low....had yet another utterly crazy night of dreams.

Thank you diligaf !

I seem to have inadvertently run briefing.

Wish come true!

@Piggywaspushed Yes I saw that. It seemed quite a baiting request. Not sure what exactly the OP wants to hear...as you pointed out