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

Phleb how old is she? My dd is the same.

She has done nothing again today. She goes to my school too. 🙈

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.
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Yes! There is another thread moaning about the disadvantaged money as they want it for all kids.*

It's both depressing and hilarious.

I think it's outrageous that the independent school down the road is doing live lessons on Google Classroom. My DC are having to make do with some directed tasks and links to websites that they do in their own time. AIBU to think that this is only going to make the gap between the advantaged and disadvantaged students even bigger because the private school students will know more have had more teaching? What ARE the teachers actually doing? There's no reason why they can't be doing the job they are paid for instead of me doing their job!
look at me playing the disadvantaged card, but really I'm either naive about the reality of poverty or I don't give a damn and want a socially acceptable way to get my pointy elbows out. What I really want is for my DC,who are lucky enough to have a quiet space to study, their own devices and decent WiFi, to be able to go on their devices from 9-4pm and get out of my hair, but I can't say this so I'll pretend I care about the poor children

Well if they delete our flowers then as a collective we have to defend ourselves by staying of those threads. There is nothing we can say that has not be said before and the haters and baiters just want to goad us.

#nopointinposting #solidarity

Riga, 11- 12 next week. She's expanding and growing all over the place and I notice it more than i do ds at 13, because it is changing shape as well. I am dreading her trying to fit in her uniform when we do go back!
Ds just gets taller - he's not even hormonal yet, just lanky and geeky. He can wear short trousers but her shirts and skirts worry me. Plus her usual physio and hospital appointments for scoliosis have been cancelled.

And bang on Lola!

Exactly same age with mine Phleb she is 12 in a few weeks.
It's like she has gone into hibernation.

I think the are being deleted due to goady posters complaining that they are passive aggressive to MNHQ.

The truth that they don't like them because they don't get a bite when they are baiting posters.

I think they are defining the flowers as ' spam'

That is not the definition of spamming in their guidelines at all.

Maybe it's just multiple flowers? Maybe one flower is okay?

I'm not going to ask MNHQ, because I don't believe they really care.

I'm really embarrassed to say that I supported MN by paying the £50. I really regret that decision now - not because I think I should get special treatment, but because they're being so ineffective in dealing with a pretty thorny issue.

I'm not going to be giving any free advice out on their forum any more.

And I'm going to keep hiding those threads, even though the temptation to see what people are saying is pretty strong

It is, isn't it, Tube? I keep going back, even if I'm not posting. I definitely need to step away now, it's bedtime for little people!

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The inability to effectively moderate is one of the reasons I won't be paying.

One of the others is that if I am paying I expect the forum to be advert free.

I'm not paying until they moderate better.

They're not getting a penny off me after this.

I discussed this with my team tonight and it's very useful.
www.seainclusion.co.uk/post/the-many-problems-of-returning-to-school

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?!

Yes!

Do you remember the videos they released as part of the Literacy Strategy when that first came in? They’d model how to teach the session (with buzzers and bells going off at the end of the 15 minutes); the demo classes they had in the videos only contained about 8/10 children!

We would stand a chance at social distancing with class sizes like that!

Why would we pay for a forum for which we provide the content and attract massive advertising and data research revenue towards? Genuine Q.

You summed it up Lola. They are raging at having to deal with their own children.

Apologies for the big ranting to the choir posts earlier. And massive lol at the poster complaining that her free state school is inferior to one that costs tens of thousands of pounds ffs.

It’s like complaining that the people in business class have more leg room than in economy. True no sh*t Sherlock stuff.

@TheHoneyBadger

I think that I speak for the majority when I say that having a "rant" is why this area should be off the main boards.

We all need somewhere where we safe enough just to explode and have a go at some points.

So please rant away. I suspect that most of us feel exactly the same way.

Evening all.

Bad times in the Moss household. Have had to dip into the World's Best Teacher giftbag booze.

The thing is that those of us who teach spend our careers all too aware of the impact disadvantage has on children and we spend our time trying to nurture the whole child and safeguard them, so it's bloody insulting when people who clearly haven't a clue start trying to use the struggles of disadvantaged families to push their own privileged agenda.

Does anyone else have a really bad feeling about the government’s ‘phased plan’ back into schools?

I suspect however it’s done, whether it’s year groups first (y10/12/6), 15 to a class, 10 to a class, staggered starts, staggered finishes, packed lunch only, parents standing at 2m intervals down the road, only PP children in, only parents who work’s children in, work not being set for those at home, parents wanting particular days because their sibling/friend is that day/work would prefer it, children not being taught enough, children being taught too much, vulnerable staff staying at home, teachers being unable to teach if their own child’s school can’t have them in their work days, not enough supply teachers etc etc-there are going to be an awful lot of really pissed off people!

I can’t help but think it will be an awful lot easier and much better quality and consistency of education if they don’t go back in Summer 2!!

Considering my school is open for 6 kids and there is no hand gel, no proper social distancing and no SLT support, I am dreading it.

betty the 50 books thread are nice, aren't we??

Very. If only I could keep up with writing book reviews beyond 'I like it' and 'I didn't like it'

Those German desks are things to admire and drool over. I need to get a life. I may still have an (a? help please o great English teacher!) NLS folder in the depths of the teacher cave dining room.

Hello Is anyone else a BTEC teacher? I only teach 6th form and only BTEC and am getting increasingly pissed off at the fact that we still haven't had anything concrete about how grades are going to be calculated. My year 13s know nothing other than that their external assessments have been cancelled. It's really frustrating.

I'm still teaching on zoom, but seeing their dejected faces when they don't know what they're supposed to be doing and if they will get to university is horrible.