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

Ah, thanks riga.

Today's Times says only 11% of people/ parents(DH has paper so not sure which) want schools back imminently.

It really doesn't feel like that on MN, does it?

I love the way they say 'disadvantaged' as if the majority of households can afford a laptop per person including children and has the kind of wifi to facilitate that.

Do I live in a different universe?

That latest thread has given me the rage. Had to hide it.

I know, Honey, there's this belief/expectation that the norm is fast wifi and own laptop. They don't understand that having these things is more likely to mean a child is privileged, rather than just normal.

Madness. I said on the last thread that I'd become the squeaky wheel at school about not assuming every child has a computer and internet particularly when it comes to setting homework and getting very cross at teachers who say kids should come to them at breaktime if they need a hard copy (rather than give out hard copies) when the kids have ridiculously short breaks at our school to minimise 'bad behaviour' alledgedly.

It really doesn't feel like that on MN, does it?

Mumsnet doesn't seem representative of real life even more so recently.

@StSaulOfSnacks - it is a race to the bottom on that thread. Horrible things being said - a proper viper fight. How anyone can say that thread is supportive and adds to any debate is beyond me.

There's plenty I could moan about my department for but we do set homework that doesn't require access to internet or special resources and we have paper copies available for any student who wants them as we go round giving them out.

Popping in to wave in solidarity, been working on my faculty's GCSE grades all morning which is making my head hurt so am off for a mind-clearing walk. Don't tell anyone lest they think I'm shirking!

I do think primary teachers are disproportionately getting it in the neck, too, because -duh- young kids need more parental input and supervision.

Primary and nursery staff, I salute you. Whilst lots of my subject is too hard to learn independently and material copyrighted, I could not set work for littleuns to the requirements of MN specifications!

Research carried out in Northern Ireland and published today indicated fewer than 10 percent of parents would send their children back to school even if they were re-opened, floating the possibility of no return before the start of the new academic year.

It is just mean isn't it Piggy . On the flip side I've had two students thank me for the quality of the PowerPoints so that helps counter the gloom. I will now be narrating PowerPoints because part-time working means I have a whole day free to do additional work... But at least parents will hear my voice and know that I'm not just sat at home doing nothing

Nailed it. I can claim success - I beat DS#2 on Forza Motorsport and taught him some Anglo Saxon at the same time

That thread about us not doing any work is awful. I'm off rota this week but next week I will be teaching, this week I'm doing online FutureLearn and OU courses (through choice, I've finished the prescribed CPD).

Only done A level grades so far and that was hard enough. Dreading the y11s, we have about 280/year.
Piggy your year groups are enormous, happy birthday to your da
Lili hugs, horrible emails from parents really get to you don’t they.

Thanks, Piggy! I'd say hats off to secondary for trying to teach all the higher level concepts and/or practical subjects from home! A bit of Maths and Literacy is easy by comparison

Mumsnet should delete that thread. Its outrageous.

That thread is awful. Like all the teacher bashers have saved it all up until today. I'm having a particularly shit day and that thread has nearly sent me over the edge.

That thread has really upset me-I’ve contacted mumsnet.

One of the posters on there just openly admitted trolling FFS.

I do think primary teachers are disproportionately getting it in the neck, too, because -duh- young kids need more parental input and supervision
That's what I'd noticed too.
Do some people not realise that a 6 year old is less independent than a 16 year old?

I actually felt equal to it today, but there were a couple of recent posts on it that were so goady and vile I reported them and have stepped away. Plus a poster who I think is a teacher but essentially only read my last post and then commented on it, having missed everything I'd said previously. FFS, don't join in the conversation having missed half of it!

Anyway. Another round of coffees?

I hope all of you doing grades today are getting on okay. It sounds like a hideous task.

I'm awaiting redeployment currently. Don't want to say more but it'll involve training before taking on a different education task to normal. Not sure how I feel about it!

Awful thread. #solidarity.

Re the phases, as said on last thread, first schools transition at y4 and middle at year 9. If that's why those years have been chosen!

@Piggywaspushed I hope you reported that horror. It is so uncalled for.

#theyarebitterbecausetheycantteach

Is it too early to have a couple of shots of my Riga Balsam it's about 40 percent?

That thread- a poster on the last solidarity thread said one of their pupils had burst into tears at school as it was so different and stressful.

Staff are also teaching pupils they've never met and a wide mix of ages and abilities.

I know a teacher who was going to be in charge of 12 from age 5-yr 6 today.