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've just had a really good staff meeting - feeling a lot more positive and supported And I've told the children I'm unavailable until 12 o'clock so I'm sitting down with a coffee now.

Why don’t they all make videos for all their co-workers. Go on then. I suspect no one wants to put themselves out there like that.

We (lecturers) started being threatened with videoing ALL lectures a couple of years ago, even though we do occasionally video Important Talks. Our unions had quite a bit to say about IP and stuff. I've been compromising by doing an audio recording, for accessibility reasons. Really don't like it and I bet all the other parents wouldn't, either!

Love the masks thing .

I became a proper sobbing mess yesterday eve as to all the ways teaching would have to change in order to get kids to socially distance. I'd been fine right up til then. Hit me out of nowhere

That mask thing is hilarious!

DH just came out the study wondering why I was laughing, so I read it to him. He laughed and said he honesty thinks some parents haven't a clue how kids are in school. We both agreed that just think about our respective school days that's exactly what would have happened, but we have one to add.

11. An enterprising student (usually a boy in y9/10) would bulk buy masks online, run a black market enterprise in masks and make a tidy profit.

The mask post is like seeing into the future.

You also missed that the kids will find a way to swear and each other under the masks so that only the intended victim can hear but I (as a hearing impaired teacher) can’t tell and then there will be a huge fight. Every lesson with Yr9- who are feral at the best of times.

There will also be children who’s parents are convinced this is all a conspiracy theory and refuse to let them wear masks and so there will be the endless back and forth with said child about how masks are pointless and then the whole bloody form will start to moan. (I can already 100% tell you who this child will be).

Bah!

I think the hearing impaired and DCs with eg Down Syndrome is an issue, for sure. When I was in Sainsburys a woman in a mask had to (counter productively...) get right up close to staff to be heard and I could hear it was all muffled.

I had to take DD(7) to the docs last week and they gave us masks at the door to wear. An adult-sized mask on a child is not great. Half the time it slipped upwards so she couldn’t actually see properly.

Unless kids are issued with kid-sized masks it will be pointless. And we don’t have the supplies.

Afternoon. Don’t forget it’s a bank holiday tomorrow changed from Monday to Friday to accommodate VE Day or some such.

I take back quitting and going to work in a supermarket after actually visiting one yesterday. Traumatic experience. Bizarre hit and miss actions like queuing 2m apart outside and wiping basket handles (great) yet still having to put a pound in a trolley and collect and return the trolleys unwiped from a narrow fenced in space.

Grown adults were shouldering me out of the way to get to things right now rather than wait and if I stood back to wait another person would just shove in ahead of me. Yet they think schools could pull off social distancing?

Will manage with shrinkingly rare delivery slots and what essentials I can find in the village shop from now on.

Sorry to burst your bubble but the bank holiday is the 8th not the 1st!

Supermarkets are horrible right now. I hate it.

Ah. Thanks noble. Guessing I won’t be the only confused person. Knowing what day it is today is a challenge in itself.

I teach 5 year olds. Girls are sent in every day with hair in beautiful plaits which last until the end of morning register.
There is no chance in hell that small children will keep masks on.

They had wrongly signposted which aisle actually led to a checkout. After walking in circles for half an hour, and checking no one was coming and I wasn’t cutting in, I decided to slip under the barrier to the visible empty self checkout. A store assistant appeared from nowhere to loudly berate me drawing every shoppers attention and tuts and muttering. Felt like I was going to get linched by an angry mob

frippEnos yes, it was that thread.
Parenting is apparently optional for some right now. I get that some of them a single parents (been there...) but it doesn't mean we can opt out does it ? I think many parents on MN don't actually like parenting.

Oooh ABBA SWOT SWAT

#solidarity #stayawayfromaibu

Kids (and adults) with sensory issues will struggle with masks.

Wales haven't said Sept- just phased return. I hope Wales and England go back at the same time, otherwise I'm screwed. Have to have 2 key workers to access a hub school here.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/30/coronavirus-scientists-caution-against-reopening-schools

I’m finding I have more sympathy with the parents who say f it and do nothing than the parents who are expecting hothousing levels of teaching and learning and moaning they’re not getting 6 hours intensive provision a day.

Also not a lot of sympathy from teachers who are complaining students aren’t doing the work and are angry at the parents about it.

For not from. Little sympathy ‘for’ teachers who.

To be honest and it’s probably not a popular view, I think we’d be better off saying education is closed full stop than attempting online learning and the massive inequality from technology access, parental resources eg time, ability etc.

Let teachers get on with working out how to bridge the gap and planning to accommodate that in a September return, administrating marks for exam groups and providing childcare for key workers.

Current approach seems to be a nightmare for everyone

I'd have more sympathy for the OP you refer to honey if she hadn't followed it up with a where are they comment about teachers. What she is actually saying is SHE doesn't want to do anything but expects teachers, remotely, to coax her DD.

I think we all know how that one would go if school was running as normal! I can hear the parents' evening conversation in my head!

I was in a virtually empty small Co-op today and got told off by a member of staff for walking the wrong way down an aisle. Never mind that a) there was no-one around, b) she didn't want to come down that aisle herself and c) there was absolutely no signage to say it was one way apart from a small arrow on the ground at the ends of each aisle. Which I managed to miss with a toddler and a shopping trolley.

But generally I've had good supermarket experiences and the staff are great. It's the other customers that frustrate me!

Yes. That bit was unfortunate but I guess I read her more as a, I’m out of my depth, I can’t cope parent than most.

I remember when ds was at primary and out of their depth but scared of questioning authority mums would come to me with school problems in the playground when I was waiting to pick up ds. For some reason she gave me that vibe

Similar to me then Sally 😆 I felt her superhero status had gone to her head a bit. Another worker made eye contact with me that indicated as much

Oh well, not the vibe I got! I got the 'you're her teacher. What do you expect me to do about it?' vibe!