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!

so they come in but are essentially just sitting in classrooms doing the online learning just like our non keyworker kids

This sounds workable from maybe Y2 up. Possibly Y1.

Reception and nursery though, I don’t know what we’re going to do, never mind ASN.

@TheHoneyBadger I’m going to stop answering non teachers questions on here, no offence but I want this to be the place I can talk to other teachers not justify myself or defend teachers and students rights not to be guinea pigs.

Quite right! I would have thought from my Op it would have been obvious

To be fair though staff she was being nice.Unusually.

We need a new thread! Goodness knows how you can get a clearer title!!

I have tried

Off to get a coffee as too early for the toffee vodka

Thanks Staff. I felt like a bit of a cow taking a stand but it was suddenly like being on aibu rather than a support thread.

We’re only allowed to go on holiday, visit family, get dental work etc in holiday time. Losing our contracted holiday time to lockdown and being expected to work when we’re not contracted to usually is not ok. I have business I need to attend to overseas and was planning to be away for much of summer to deal with it. If you decide I’m on holiday now when I can’t go anywhere and make me go to work when I’m contracted as on holiday and could actually fly and get stuff done that’s not on obviously.

People can have holidays booked, second jobs, committed to taking care of elderly parents or being home for building work, elective surgery scheduled etc. You can’t just change someone’s contracted months like that

Please post a link to new thread when you create it.

Neuro - my thyroid levels were up and down like a yo yo when my kids were little from the hormones post- birth. Stabilised a bit and now up and down with the perimenopause! It can make you SO tired!

We got a bit wet in the morning when it rained, but the bivvies held up!

I can imagine going back earlier in the summer - what would be a killer is having to then work from August to Christmas with just a week off. Can't imagine children coping well with that! If lockdown eases as well as teachers who want to holiday there will be many parents wanting to take children away (even just to relatives) so would the August classes be seen as kind of optional by many?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_staffroom/3893542-The-Teachers-s-Republic-Refuge-solidarity-comrades?watched=1&msgid=96026485#96026485

Our new home!

#solidarity

Thing is it comes up in Active and it is a public forum.
We have a lot more in common than you might think and I am an educated professional woman more than capable of a civilised conversation.
I'll leave of course, but I'm not your enemy.

I'm always nice, make a point of it actually.
To be fair though staff she was being nice.Unusually

I'll leave of course, but I'm not your enemy.

Of course you aren’t the enemy. No one is. But it does derail our thread somewhat

No problem @Nighttimefreedom. We are just trying to make a staff only thread in the staffroom we just do not want this thread to be derailed and turned into another baiting thread.

There are lots of other education threads to converse on.

#solidarity #teachersmentalhealth

Oh ,sorry. Whoops! I meant you were unusually nice. Not that it was unusual for you to be nice . Have another biscuit!

That's good to know, I will take Nightimefreedom off my spreadsheet

So I'm making a delightful call tomorrow in response to a parent emailing me to say that their child was doing work but that they have been disheartened and now aren't doing much due to not getting feedback from me.
We set 3 or 4 pieces of work a day. They have completed 6 bits of work in 4 weeks. 3 get auto marked if they clicked the button and of the other 2 one wasn't submitted through classroom.

3, not 2. 2 submitted, one hiding in drive.

I've started reporting the clearly goady, teacher baiting threads. That recent one with the pretentious woman wanting daily contact with teachers to keep her son on track is clearly trolling.

Either that or she's blaming teachers because she can't look after her own snowflake son.

We are all hiding in the Republic thread now.

Schools have been closed three weeks plus the Easter holidays so in reality, it has not been that long. I guess some parents are so used to the school, club, childcare treadmill that they cant get off it.

I think so, plus the 2 weeks 'holiday' didn't feel like it, so they have forgotten they don't normally sit and do schoolwork all holiday.

Hiding?

The goady collective don't like many things do they?
They don't like entirely reasonable advice and guidance.
They don't like being told to contact their own children's schools for any genuine queries or concerns.
They don't like the daffs or flowers because they're mean.
They don't like teachers talking together.

Anyone would think they're only interested in being as goady as possible. I wonder why.

Lola

I think that the goady collective is having a strop because they have finally come up against something where they no longer get their jollies. and they can't cope.

My colleague was doing 2 calls a day to someone who wanted her son keeping on track. Wonder if they are the same person?