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

@phlebasconsidered May I pm you later re thyroid please? I have both those things going I think!

From another thread

NAHT (heads union) has asked for lots of information from heads today in terms of guidance, requirements etc to open schools. They are a union, not the gov, but hopefully the gov has consulted with the unions.

@cheesecurdsandgravy - I will change the register. All those stairs will help keep you fit, sorry there is no money in the budget to fix the lifts after Year 9 rammed all the loo roll and hand gel in the lift mechanism. Hopefully, you have brought your own glass from B block third floor as everyone else is crammed into the staffroom drinking gin and toffee vodka. We seemed to have run out of tea and coffee.

Stressful day of online teaching!

#solidarity #letsallbecomegindistellersinstead

tad and phleb - I used to live near there! I grew up in a town about 15 minutes drive west of the uni city
Love the look of some of those. Salted caramel, mmmmmm.....

Hey all. Teams was a nightmare today which meant my year 7s asked even more ridiculous questions than usual! Raspberry gin from Wilkins in Tiptree (yes the jam people) for me this evening.

Yes of course neuro. It took me over 8 years to get properly medicated - it's a bugger of a thing.

Someone on the news was just saying how soul destroying it would be to be in a pub with a friend and have to sit 2 metres apart. I don't disagree but the thought of how soul destroying it might be to work in a mask at a 2 metre distance from everyone in a school is a whole new level.

Sarah Smart just out mask on on the news and her voice was so muffled.

signing in

@pinkrocker I can't find a link which isn't Facebook but it's the official RAF Brize Norton page so it's an ok one: www.facebook.com/watch/?v=353327862289670

Very educational of course.

Adnams is great stuff though I've only had their beer and not their gin. I don't actually like gin which has nothing to do with a weekend on a boat with copious quantities of home made sloe gin but in the interests of supporting a small business I am prepared to give it a try. How bad can something with salted caramel and cocoa really be?

This is teacher/school staff chat

This made me - now I can feel like I can legitimately be here since I don't work as a teacher (I saw the light....)

Our own distillery? What could we call it? We need to not be confused with the whisky people! #byteachersforteachers

My son's cadet group sent him a pt army website but he eon't let me in the room while he does it, unfortunately.

Bloody Amanda from Hull at the question time will cause an onslaught of people moaning. What is she supposed to do about childcare? I don't know - because schools are not childcare.

I think what I find most depressing, aside from missing my class ( even the bloody annoying meerkat attention span wandering shouty out ones), is how clear it is that the government and parents view us as childcare / exam factories simultaneously. We can't be both at once! There's probably a Schrodinger's pun in there somewhere but I am too tired - i'm 2 toffee vodkas in and i'm making a rhubarb pie. Today was a bad day - spent an hour in remote conference with senco, family workers and social services and feel very helpless. At the same time, even though that child is not in school I know we are on it and so not being the feckless tossers we are portrayed as.

I spelt portrayed and the pie is not burning. Don't judge me for early doors drinking!

After 6pm is not early

Hi all

I’ve had a weird day today. Has lots of students work and admin stuff thrown at me since I woke up. My fault for checking my email!

Really fed up of exam students emailing photos of their work, instead of attaching it as a word document. How am I meant to mark that?! And KS3 students asking silly questions. Two sisters in particular, both regularly emailing. My year leader making unreasonable demands. Trying to do the GCSE grading stuff before my line manager phone meeting tomorrow. While home ed with one child and the other one running round like a loon.

Chocolate and wine tonight

Oh and add in 6 phone calls to my tutor group. Because we have to ring some every day. My first yesterday, I got hung up on and then they wouldn’t answer

Oh happy days, just seen a happy parent thread

Just signing in....

Re attendance of vulnerable students - many of ours can’t get to us as they would usually come on public transport from miles away.

I hope you don’t mind me sneaking on here - I’m not a teacher, but I am a teacher’s daughter and a teacher’s mum, and I think you lot are all amazing!

Would it be awful to say I’m not missing school?

I don’t think so Spooky! I’m missing being in the classroom and, you know, teaching. But not any of the other nonsense my job seems to entail...

It's probably our fault
It always is.
Hello from the world of SEN. No online video teaching for me thankfully, in school for three days instead. My lovely colleagues are being very pragmatic about the utter impossibility of social distancing in a special school...

I’m not missing the fact that at school I have neither classroom nor desk whereas at home everything I need is at arms reach around my little work station.

I miss almost everything else though...

85% of ours come a long way too....rural school.

Lots of kids and parents not engaging. We are ringing, emailing, sending work packs.....I'm not sure what we can do but the gap is definitely going to get wider

I'm slightly bemused at the kids who aren't doing any work because there's so.much of it and it's making them anxious.

There's about as much as you'd get done in a normal lesson. If you're doing a bit every day, so I.don't get it.

Well, I do a bit, cos i do that with my npqml, but I.also.have kids and home to run.

Then unions say we're not teaching. But we kind of are. But we shouldn't contact home if kids aren't working, but I.need them to do.cw

Evenin’!

Hell of a day. Teams was shocking- had to try to wrangle an enraged toddler out of my ‘office’ while trying to talk to Yr10 about their Lit text.

And the utterly endless Yr7 e-mails.

Wine for all!