The Teachers’s Republic Refuge - solidarity comrades!

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So continuing on from our boycott/flowers we need to continue to defend our profession. This is teacher/school staff chat - if you do not fall into that category please start you own thread elsewhere.

#solidarity

Not seen that one!

I had my daffs deleted

Where Tuberose?!

There were lots, to be fair - but they were a damn sight less harmful than a lot of the posts which were allowed to stand.

How do we complain to hq?

I wondered what post of yours was deleted, Tube, as I couldn't think of anything bad you'd said.

Hmm, so now we can't even post flowers?

Oooh I need to stay off that aibu thread. Everything gets pounced on. I really need to stop posting. ..
I am struggling massively with my OCD . I was going to quit teaching but due to coronavirus my husband (main earner) is under threat of redundancy so I can't :(

That's a nasty, nasty thread. I'm now hiding it. I could feel my button twitching but couldn't be arsed to explain it to those who were enjoying their ranting.

sacha's thread is amazing!

I predicted last week that DV would become our responsibility, after comments made by charities that we could phone homes and ask kids how things were and fish for info. The children's commissioner has pretty much said getting kids with SW into school is our job.

My DM worked in social care so I can freely ask why are there so rarely social care bashing threads??

I saw you had been deleted : I suspected it was your daffs. How on earth do they break MNHQ guidelines?

It was a lot of flowers. Maybe 100.

I'd have minded less if all of the vitriol had gone too.

The PP who said looking at those threads is like self-harm is right. I'm going to try to be good and hide threads now.

My DM worked in social care so I can freely ask why are there so rarely social care bashing threads??

Interestingly, social workers will come into teacher bashing threads to say that they get far worse bitching about them than teachers do, but I can only think of 1 SW thread in the 12 years I’ve been on here. Compared to the 30 teacher ones we’ve had since lockdown alone!!

I don't think any number of daffodils are against guidelines though! Good point

Here are the guidelines:

www.mumsnet.com/info/netiquette

although they are vague as it doesn't mention doxing which is also not allowed.

Because the people interested in being goady and school/teacher bashing are doing the whole "what are the flowers for? Oh they're from teachers who think schools should never be criticised and teachers should be worshipped like gods" thing.

Given the daffs were deleted it seems if we reply in good faith then the goady ones will do their utmost to call us liars, if we defend out profession against misinformation and ignorance then the goady ones will falsely claim we think we are special, if we put flowers and don't engage then that's also mean, so clearly we are expected to sit back and watch as people with chips on their shoulders spread misinformation and fan flames because anything else is mean to the poor goady people.

predicted last week that DV would become our responsibility

Isn’t it odd how the solution to domestic violence and child abuse is apparently putting kids in a classroom, trying to teach them French and then sending them back?

But to delete the flowers is wrong so I think tube could ask MNHQ.

Can I just say that in the third picture down on this article (the photo showing social distancing in a German classroom), the book on the girl's desk looks remarkably like the old National Numeracy Strategy folders you used to get?!

Or is that just me?

Isn't it odd that suddenly so many people consider themselves experts on caring for vulnerable and disadvantaged students, but on the rare occasion anyone offers a solution (as opposed to using it as a stick to beat schools with) almost all their solutions seem to be solutions that won't be best for disadvantaged and vulnerable students, but would benefit their own child?

So many people are suddenly concerned about disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils and lack of consistency across schools, yet seem to have had no issue electing a government that's accelerated carving up state education, cutting family support services, and generally promote an austerity agenda across many areas of life.

Link! www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52469939

Can someone please urge Jonathan Van tam to a secondary school sometime in the future? Just now, when directly asked is school children could stay 2 apart all day, he said he did not think 4 or 5 year olds could.

Prising 14 and 15 year olds apart is part of my daily ritual when at the coalface!!

My friend did her rota day at school today and was spat at...

When mumsnet is so pathetic about upholding fairness it just makes me think why on earth would I pay a fee for them?
Maybe that's the kick up the jacksie they need. The whole site is all for the majority now. The loudest shouters, the tax ragers. In many ways netmums is more reflective of real parents and kids - the ones we really deal with.

Too busy yearning after the ergonomic desks sally

Yes, Lola, the number of posters who seem concerned about vulnerable pupils, those potentially being in DV situations, poverty, no food etc. and then suggesting that teachers aren't doing enough or worrying enough.

Don't they know we've been worrying about these pupils for years? And that we hate not even being able to look out for them during school hours? Not to mention the parents who are currently struggling, for the same reasons, and, as teachers, we generally know who most of these parents are and worry about them, too?

Piggy! Yes, they are nice, aren't they? I hate the desks we have at school, so unwieldy and they never fit together in threes nicely, there's always a gap in the middle!