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

I did think of School Workers Against Bashers

But SWAB hmmm

School
Workers
Important
Nearly
Godlike

I need a like button.

School Workers Against Twats.

Not professional enough?

I want this A changed to an O somehow so we can be SWOTs

School
Workers
Opposing
Twats

School Workers Ostracizing Twats?

I dunno, I think I like SWAT.

‘What on earth are teachers doing all day??’

SWAT!!

Like a SWAT Team... or are they SWOT teams....?

Love it

We can carry out SWOT analyses....

I can see the complaints already ‘bullying teachers calling concerned parents twats’

Hmm School Workers Against Teacherbashers.

This reminds me of a thread on the TES years ago about trying to find a classroom acronym (in the days of WALT/WAGOLL/WILF). I think the outcome was something like

We
All
Now
Know

Morning all,
Coming to join if I may? If this was an actual staff room I'd be popping this on the board to go yellow and dog-earred...

The Wearing of Face masks in a school setting... thoughts from a teacher who has survived the Bottle Flip, The Dab, Skirt Rolling,Fidget Spinners, Yawn Raping, Tie Peanuts..

1. Someone's mother, probably Flossie's, will pimp the mask. It will be a sea of rhinestones and sequins and every girl under 10 will want one and refuse to wear a 'boring' one and teachers and parents will cry. Then they all won't wear them.
2. Someone will have a designer posh mask with a Hype label or some bollocks. They will all then want one and will drive their parents mental saying they can't possibly go to school with a homemade mask or even a proper clinical mask. These overpriced, clinically useless masks will sell out but few will get them and then there will be tantrums and they won't wear them.
3. Girls aged 13 and above will notice they give you spots and then they won't wear them.
4. The same girls will also need a new mask every 10 mins as it gets caked in their foundation and this is a faff so they won't wear them.
5. The same girls will take 1000 selfies wearing the mask, hate it, hate themselves, roll it down a bit like their skirts so it becomes totally ineffective and then they won't wear them.
6. Twanging the Mask (the new peanutting) will be great fun. Mostly for the boys who will twang the mask and shout CORONA at the top of their voices. They will do this to Flossie and rhinestones and sequins will be all over the classroom. She will cry, they will all get twanging friction burns and then they won't wear them.
7. They wll draw penises on them. Anatomically quite accutate but hugely inappropriate and then we will have to confiscate them and tell them not to wear them.

8.They will own a mask which they will wear on arrival at school and when reminded 1 million times by their teachers - that same mask will be left screwed up in their bags the minute the school day is over because they won't be seen dead outside the school wearing them.

1. They will wear the mask at school when reminded 1 million times by their teachers, but once they start getting changed for PE, that mask and where it ends up is anyone's guess. And the chances of the same mask returning to its original owner after is 0%. So they won't wear them.

10. There will wear their masks at break and lunch time when reminded 1 million times by their teachers, canteen staff and Mid-Day assistants. Someone will try to eat whilst still wearing the mask and end up with bolognese sauce all down the mask whereupon the other kids will rip the piss forever more. So no one will wear the masks at break or lunch time.

I'm sure I've missed a few... here's hoping we are back to school in masks soon!

Schoolworkers
Together
Against
Ranting and
Slurs

We could all channel our inner Mr Tumble and sign shining STARS

Oh that mask thing is brilliant, exactly what will happen

at the mask thing.
I am dreading being told we have to wear them. I wonder if we can make alternatives, floaty scarves anybody?

Yet another thread in AIBU - where's the SWAT/SWOT ?

Chilled, it's like you can see into the future.
Also, primary kids will lose them and the mums will say it is my fault. The school fb page will be full of posts from mums saying "Has anyone seen Poppets mask? It has Chanel material and Mrs Phleb has lost it". The office admin will eventually see red and send home a parentmail which no-one will read. Poppet will ask me everyday if i 've found the mask. None of the parents will ever look in the lost property box.

bettybattenburg

If its the one I'm thinking of. The answer is be the parent.
But I suspect that it will be the same type of parent that complains about how the teachers let her DD down in year 11.,

I'm in stitches 🤣

Checking in with . My own dc seem to be coming very self-sufficient when it comes to the school work, so cheers to them. They just need to be topped up with hot chocolate and toast on a regular basis and we all surface for lunch. I've become very lax about them watching TV when they've finished their work between lessons.

Although today is a non-paid day, I am holding a session this afternoon for students who are struggling with the tech. Given that I am a complete Apple phobe and the school recommends iPads, I'm dreading this a bit! Luckily my dc have taught me a few tips which I'll be passing on.

I'd forgotten about SWOT analyses, haven't seen them for a while! Joyous news from our school today is that we still need to complete our PDPs this year.

and for all. I'm annoyed that MNHQ removed them and actually rather glad I haven't paid a subscription, despite being enormously grateful that they have allowed certain other taboo conversations to take place.

That masks thing is eerily accurate. I don't know how I can wear a mask while teaching my hearing impaired pupils though, they both lip read as much as listen. One of them doesn't even wear a hearing aid as he finds it doesn't help, and his first language is sign language. God help him if all his teachers have to wear masks, he finds it hard enough to cope when we're all looking at him and speaking clearly.