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

'Miss, miss, jonny's got the virus, do we get to leave early?"

Surely they will have to disregard the tracing app in schools same as they will have to drop the 2m rule. As it will be impossible to keep schools open itgerwy.

Otherwise.

The apps only alert you if you've been in contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid19

But in an average school day, we are in contact with so many people that I can foresee a lot of people being alerted if even one person tests positive....

But consider a student who has been in school testing positive. For the previous 4 days he's had 8 subjects, 3 of which he's on completely different sets to all the other subjects - so already 120 students he's sat in a room with for an hour a few times. Plus teachers. Then there's the corridors, bus journey, lunch hall, mates at breaktime, tutor group and form tutor... Assembly?
Just needs one student to take a fair number of teachers into isolation...

Tracing app could lead to a ‘witch-hunt’ for some students and staff.

Imagine parents complaining that there is an alert in the school. The head will be receiving demands to hunt the culprit down

Sounds like it’ll be announced on Thursday that we’re back in 3 weeks. The BBC app is reporting that...

public servants will be offered protective equipment varying "from setting to setting"

Which will probably mean that teachers don’t get any.

Nobody has asked at the briefing or too any MPs on Marr, Sophie Ridge and BBC. Weird.

Unless I missed it.

That is why the overall numbers of cases need to be really low before we can lift lockdown and use test and trace.

I've not listened to the news (I just get it from you guys!) so thanks for the updates. I've we've been baking all afternoon, made the best banana bread ever, baking is good for my chilling out before tomorrow and my new workload gets rolled out.

MN is obsessed with schools, as are some papers but not the wider public or journalists, it seems

I also don't get the confused message about vulnerability. Hancock publicised the definition today and it's still as fucking fuzzy as ever. So some of us are vulnerable and we should work from home but we don't get a letter so fuck off back to school diabetic / asthmatic/ copd etc teachers.
I hope my union does something but to be honest I watched academisation eat their bollocks off so i'm not hopeful.

Have you got a link phleb?

Found this

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coronavirus-lockdown-over-70s-guidelines-matt-hancock-a9496266.html

It actually makes me feel better because I had a row on MN not long ago about how much the government had altered and fudged this. She would not have it and told me I was spreading false information! Ha!

If schools cannot put social distancing in place, the wider vulnerable group will be advised to stay away as they are meant to 'stringently' observe distancing.

I just hope no.one expects 'proper' teaching until summer holidays. It's going to be impossible with sd, kids and teachers off and a general feeling of unease.

Asuitablecat

From the experience of MN we know that teachers will be expected to

Teach proper lessons in school.
Set work for those not in school.
Mark all work with in minutes of getting it.
Set detentions.
Not set detentions.
Plus all the usual of supplying equipment for children to grizzle and chew on and not complain when it comes back covered in saliva.

There was already a thread today about uniforms...

And the obsession with fining for absences, which is an 'only on MN' obsession,

And not tell their kids off for not following the rules- but bring down.the wrath of Zeus on other kids.

www.theguardian.com/education/2020/may/03/revealed-year-six-primary-school-pupils-may-return-on-1-june

Changes on a daily basis. Ridiculous!

I am getting very, very worried now.

The government have been kite flying, that’s for sure.

But any return is going to be an unholy mess. We have about 50% of kids out voluntarily before the schools were shut. How many of those just won’t come back because of parental fears?

Will the government let people opt in to homeschooling for the duration to take some pressure off schools?

Will we still be chasing attendance? How does that work with school refusers and vulnerable kids?

How does this work for vulnerable staff? We will have to shield staff members but that will limit our capacity.

The timetable rejigging alone for social distancing is mammoth.

Gah! I hate threads on this. They make me so anxious. If I see one more person say ‘well, we’ll just have to abandon social distancing to make it work’. No no no no no no no no no!

Several countries, such as Austria and Denmark, have moved to partially reopen schools as coronavirus fears have receded. But in some of the worst-hit areas of the globe, including Italy and parts of the US, schools will remain shut until the end of summer.

This sort of thing annoys me: which 'side' is the journalist suggesting we are on in this?

BelleSausage

I am sorry to say that when schools do go back, under whatever "phased" return they come up with it won't be enough for some posters on MN.

And we will be back to where we started before staff started the wellbeing threads.

I wonder how that union meeting went with the DfE on Friday?

According to that article, the unions are saying June is way too early to consider schools opening, yet the government have apparently lined up 1st June as the reopening date!

Makes you think the DfE aren’t going to listen much!