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

The haters and baiters are rude because they want an argument. These keyboard warriors need to be supervising their children’s learning unless that child is on a ‘break’ or on a ‘free’

#solidarity #workingnotshirking #keyworker

Bloody hell if we had a pound for every baiter who says they used to be a teacher or my great granny twice removed was a teacher school budgets would not be a problem

#usedtobeateacherbutcouldnothackit #solidarity

Or their mum was a teacher with classes of 45 just after the war...?

The haters and baiters are rude because they want an argument.

Exactly. I see on that thread that they are also peddling the line that children don’t spread it or are limited risk when very recent scientific research suggests the opposite. They read what they want to read...

Even better was the poster I was arguing with yesterday.
She couldn’t believe that young children wouldn’t be able to social distance.
I told her that I was in school last week and it was a struggle with year 5/6 age children and younger wouldn’t be possible.
She claimed to have experience, which it turned out was being a parent of two, having baby sat and run some children’s parties. Also she had never known a child to spit, bite or hit.

Lol! My mum was a teacher with classes of 50 in the early 1960's. She used to say "if you haven't taught 52 primary children in a cloakroom on a wet day you haven't lived"
But it has absolutely no relevance to today's situation.

I am adopting a can-do attitude and have decided that gravity will no longer apply in my classroom. This will open up an additional metre of space when I relocate half my desks to the ceiling. The desks would need to be floating anyway when I chop them in half as all double currently.

nodefeatismhere #wallsareinthemind

Ah welcome to a new working week. Just read trade unions may refuse to go back to work unless it is safe for their staff. Might take the fire off us for a while 😂 (Who am I kidding!)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/04/uk-plan-for-returning-to-work-puts-peoples-health-at-risk-warns-tuc-coronavirus?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other

We will also all be issued with sonic screwdrivers as in the David Tennant as English Teacher sketch.
That way we can immediately zap any covid coughing pranksters and any child who habitually chews a pencil.

I'm wondering whether the poster on the other thread is that one a few weeks back who had been "told" that her (private) school was opening in June, and everyone else who said that whilst that was a possibility, nothing was set in stone and we should wait and see, was lacking in the right attitude and care.

Under a name-change of course.

Nope. Ed Psych. Allegedly.

Nice to be able to do lots of WFH and sit in a clean, socially distanced office.

I know, I know I said I wasn’t going to open AIBU etc. But what is this thread?!

I might call for a real strike to get the blood pressure of the keyboard warriors to soar into the stratosphere .

#beyondcaring

#beyondcaring

Agree staff its almost comical at the very least it's school thread bingo.

That measuring thread is a joke!
I’ve watched a lot of tv over the years so I’m off to lecture people who make tv programs about how to do it best.

I could not stop myself

#justforshitsandgiggles #lunchbreak #solidarity

Is it likely the NEU is going to say much this week? I know they were in meetings with the DfE about reopening on Friday but I haven’t seen any updates.

Nope. Ed Psych. Allegedly.

Reminds me of the time a few years ago when I was Ofsteded by someone who was an ex Ed Psych and had never set foot in the classroom except to judge (back when we got individual gradings and ‘feedback’ from a snapshot of a lesson). Wish I could say it was comical.

Not sure what NEU will say other than hopefully things related to practical school life and hopefully they will not be taking guidance from MN or the Daily (I just can’t type it ).

Just spending lunch on YouTube watching zoom teaching fails. We don’t ‘zoom’ we ‘team’

#solidarity #missingschoollunches

We have a PGCE tutor around us who comes into schools to assess final year students. This person is very nice etc, but the first time they came into my classroom to see my student, I was a bit surprised to find that they were someone I had previously judged as inadequate when they worked for me in another setting.

Back in the day of grading, obv.

She can’t be an Ed psych working in one village school. She also can’t be a teacher if she claims to not have a clue how the students are faring in lockdown. She certainly can’t have ever set foot in a secondary given her insane suggestions about use of space. Nothing adds up from that poster.

she had never known a child to spit, bite or hit

I saw that one. If that's the case they are VERY privileged, and should consider how other people live.

If I wasn’t on a crappy phone I’d be peeking at her history

How do you think I know honey