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!

We didn't anticipate being banned from the building once out school closed and the kids moved to the hub school instead.
I could have brought so much stuff home. I like having their books to renind me of what I want to write in their report comments and I can't do that now.

I've taught Y1-Y8 in the past, I guess hope they'd find something for me... anything, just don't want to lose my job..was in the process of buying a house as well as all this malarkey going on ! Timing not good!

I teach all over the place, at least 3 classrooms a day.

It'll also just be another thing to.say to kids that gets ignored: coats off, 1 way system, 2m apart......

Have to admit, I'm loving not having to manage behaviour. Or deal with blatant defiance and contempt. And I've been teaching best part of 2 decades. Made me realise just how much we put up with as the norm.

I was packing up stuff for planning at home from about 10 days before the announcement, but I'm a crazy prepper at the best of times. There are now piles of stuff around my office, it's a bit mad.

Welcome to primary where we are all Jills!

I've had a really busy day as I actually was v firm with ds (y2) and we did two pieces of work - only the white rose maths and a few sentences on a publisher poster; the way he acted was that I was suffocating him with paper

We had to start at 8:30 to time with Best Toddler Concentration (which dwindles by10/ 10:30). He did sit diligently again with an early wipeable handwriting book, squeaking at the tigers and key pictures and carefully scribbling over them. Ds was actually thrilled he had longer for break after completing a bit sooner. Then toddler did "ict" (iPad CBeebies) while we did the publisher thing.

I swear it was more exhausting than school. And I'm not sure why! (Probably all the additional fighting and trying to get them to listen enough to sit in the first place.)

I know a great number of friends with similar aged kids are having loads of issues getting work fitted in/ done.

SD in primary will be impossible. We are SEND so even more impossible! I believe the french schools are actually half the week and it's been left up to the schools to decide. A friend there said there was a lot of worry over zero contact from parents with the school since lockdown. But the staff aren't going to be any more keen than any of us.

I am now going in next week for a day, with a view to going in every week (not every day, though!). There are about 20 children in, I think, but we have some who require extra support who have just started going in after the Easter break, so we need to rethink how best to use the adults we have.

I am already planning how to come home and shower/wash clothes before hugging the baby and eating dinner.

Hmmm my inner London state school puts 3 worksheets up for each day. And that’s it. I’m not sure that counts as stressful. They get out up on a Monday for the week

She seems to be trying to engage and I commend her for her enthusiasm but seriously. It’s not exactly like being down the pit...

And like that the target has switched to nurses. Turns out opening the schools against the wishes of lazy teachers wasn’t actually that popular a move with parents and so now the focus is on heartless nurses wasting PPE by making dancing videos in empty cancer wards while people die next door from coronavirus. This also has the effect of making people break lockdown, not just because they think if nurses have time to dance things can’t be so bad, but also by making the public stand on Westminster Bridge to clap them.

Maybe we should show NHS workers public sector solidarity and chuck some flowers in for them too.

There's a lot of armchair experts around who think because they've seen something on the news they're suddenly clued up enough to offer wisdom on anything and everything, especially other people at work because everyone knows the armchair expert knows more about the topic.

What Coronavirus is showing me is that often those with a lot of knowledge in an area tend to be aware they have lots to learn and lots they don't know, but sometimes those with a little knowledge seem to think that makes them better informed than they actually are.

For example I'm 100% on board with accountability and scrutiny of NHS operations, but I'm not going to sit on online acting like seeing someone the news makes me an expert in cancer treatments or community care.

An acquaintance of mine has genuinely "fact checked" Trump's disinfectant statements and concluded that it's just like cancer treatments. They've become quite the science expert for someone with zero scientific training or expertise.

I had my first shift in our local hub this week and was so surprised by how horrible I found it.

There were 9 children and it was impossible to keep them apart. The building was no more unclean than usual but I felt filthy. I was also so aware of touching anything- pencils, an iPad, picking up a coat. I really felt uneasy the whole time.

I teach Reception usually. We’re all for freeflow and child led play but it couldn’t go ahead in these circumstances.

@noblegiraffe

I can’t even bring myself to look at any of the threads about nurses. No idea how anyone can bring themselves to criticise any medical professional at the moment

I am avoiding today’s new thread about how schools should reopen ASAP as there is ‘no risk to the under 20s’-I think it’s best.

@Appuskidu I agree - just let the baiters argue amongst themselves.

Or we could suggest that only under 20s go into school. Or maybe not as it will be like some survival of the fittest teen series on Netflix

That thread has been moved to coronavirus. Poster obsessed with knowing the stats for number of teachers who have died etc - totally forgets about all the support staff and visiting services used in schools.

I’m already teaching science as a non specialist without even being allowed one extra free a fortnight to observe specialists so I guess I may as well teach maths too. A rather crude expression about sticking a broom somewhere so I can multi task and clean at the same time springs to mind.

Honestly don’t know where I’ll keep my disease cannon fodder hat what with already having to switch between social worker, deradicaliser, therapist, allergy specialist, data entry clerk and analyst, cat herder, ending county lines, facilitating sniffer dog and let’s not forget teacher hats.

Sorry that was probably incoherent

And breath. I now see why you avoid the threads. I’m so annoyed that they don’t see that things like shitty IT are the fault of decades of under investment and are the bane of our lives too. Every year we seem to change eg homework setting or data storing software from one mediocre system to another and I have been being the squeaky wheel about not all kids having computers or internet access for years. Nor are they capable of acknowledging that we too are trying to work from home and homeschool potentially with one computer in the house too. It’s as if they think we’re all 25 year olds with no kids rather than being just like them.

They can’t compute that their child is one of potentially hundreds that someone teaches.

I’d naively hoped having to take care of their own kids education for a while might help parents understand how hard we work.

Have to remind myself that actually mn is not that representative of the population

I’m sorry for multiple rants posts but honestly it’s making me feel like I never want to go back. I don’t think anyone understands how much abuse some of us take just to give challenging teens some chance of getting on in life and having choices and to give them an example of an adult who keeps their cool mostly and remains kind and fair and willing to give another chance no matter what is thrown at us. Even before workload for me the emotional stress of facing that regardless of what’s going on in my own life takes a lot out of me.

Maybe I should go work for the coop 16 hours a week

@TheHoneyBadger. Kick off your shoes, grab a coffee and hide in the Staffroom. We also have a wide selection of cakes and biscuits.

I am become more unionised by the day.

#solidarity

I'm loving your hashtags more than anything else.

Sod the coffee I’m going to have a beer I’m afraid.

I woke up this morning halfway through composing an email justifying why my working conditions are untenable and begging to be moved to another department. Not impressed that even in my sleep I’m stressing out about going back.

I do love my job sometimes and elements of it all the time but it is bloody draining and the threads on here make me feel like all of that work, all of that supreme effort to be as one head called it, ‘relentlessly kind’ in the face of anything is completely pointless.

I will stash some booze in the back of the cupboard for those whose end of tether has surpassed coffee

I should have a signature line that says sorry but I’ve used all my patience on your kids. I have nothing left to deal with you whining that you don’t like the formatting on a worksheet