The Third Republic - solidarity comrades!

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You are most welcome to this school staff support thread to get us through stressful times. Baiters and bashers can jog on somewhere else.

If you are not staff and just have a general education query please start your own thread.

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-ABBA - anti bashers and baiting association
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Other requirements for staff room entry include the ability to find the staff room, the ability to find a clean mug in the staff room, knowledge of the photocopier codes and the ability to sniff out where the toffee vodka is hidden.

Aren't tents actually really stuffy and poorly ventilated?

I really worry about my lovely classroom which has no windows and a tiny extractor fan. I fear I may be booted out .

Maybe a nice outcome for the Brits is that scientists are recommending investment in British workplaces in proper air conditioning systems. In my school, the windows open a tiny crack (health and safety excuses...) and you are lucky if you don't boil to death, I cannot imagine fans will be allowed as they circulate the bad air!

Some of our windows don’t open at all having simply rotted away.

There should be a good airflow in my classroom between windows at the back and high up at the front ... however the latter were carelessly nailed shut and the frames covered with roofing felt when they re-did the roof a few years ago....

Perhaps some of those parents who are so keen to send DCs back could start campaigns to increase funding to schools so that they can actually improve building fabric and install healthy ventilation systems.

I noticed wistfully that the new build primary opposite my house has air con in every classroom.

www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them?fbclid=IwAR0hu79IjAUBOO0Z5X1tf8NTEJPKM4La2FEigSEwEjgVuOzG5JQQRjBmyes

Its a long read but talks about airflows.

I'm worried we're being set up to draw the country's fire over the economy."we want to.open schools, so you can get back to work, but the unions....." And while we know it's bollocks, it will make for increasingly strained conversations with friends and neighbours, from who I'm already feeling the resentment. I almost rowed last night when friends complaindd how shit the primary work is for our kids. WE DON'T HAVE TO TEACH. THERE IS NO CURRICULUM. ANYTHING YOU GET IS A BONUS. It's really hard being a teacher and a parent in.these conversations.

The Daily Mail loves to misrepresent teachers’ pay. This from 2018:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5841485/The-average-pay-teachers-said-underpaid-hits-38-400.html

Nicky Morgan did the same thing a few years ago when Sec of State, saying that the average teacher earned £37 000 - ish, and mischaracterising a dispute at that time as being about pay rather than conditions. Looks like they’re up to the same tricks now, perhaps that explains some of the more bonkers teacher bashing going on on here.

Asuitablecat

We are easy targets the media and successive governments have made it that way.

It was interesting to see how quickly the media backed down after having a very quick pop at the transport union.

@Asuitablecat exactly what I said yesterday. It’ll deflect all the anger away from the government and onto the lazy workers.

I do feel that the papers today seem to really be backtracking this morning. I’ve read a couple of things about a Sage report last week that has made the government reconsider.

Looking at the Irish exit plan, opening schools is the 5th thing in the list. Would Boris really make it that different?

It was interesting to see how quickly the media backed down after having a very quick pop at the transport union.

What happened there?

The transport union are way more militant but never draw the same level of ire that uppity teachers do.

And yes, where's the pay argument come from?

This has probably been covered numerous times, but if businesses are to be told that they should start to re-open but must provide effective Social Distancing procedures for staff safety (not to mention PPE), how come that doesn't appear to be the case for school staff?

Someone had a wedding in a tent and they've assured us that it went fine, ergo a tent is a totally suitable classroom.

(I'm taking the piss in case you hadn't realised)

Appuskidu

There was very briefly a spat about how many people were on the underground and it was the union that was causing it.

The difference was that the union came back very aggressively and stated that it was Khan that wouldn't let them put on more trains and (paraphrased) if it continued they would shutdown the trains.

The papers switched sides and started showing pictures of overcrowded trains and having a go at Khan instead, but that has now stopped as well.

Thank you, @FrippEnos

Interesting. Wish teacher/union bashing could be stopped so quickly.

Oops. Just lobbed a hand grenade into the other thread but telling she is being bloody ridiculous (because she is).
Cue (no doubt): her telling me I am a disgrace to the teaching profession again.

😂 I just saw that.... State sponsored child abuse

Does anything else hope that the whole attendance fines/awards/‘send your child in no matter what’ may fade away after all this?!

How big do they think school playgrounds are?! not to mention the fact that they’ll need to be marked into boxes/ lines for a safe distance pick up.

They’ll have to stop the fines if they expect people to self isolate for 14 days with symptoms.

Who's going to staff these tents? And who is going to provide (and pay for) generators (I presume) to power what we need inside?
That's aside from all the gazillion other flaws in the plan that I can't be arsed to go into.

is on a thread convincing parents their children’s mental health will be permanently scarred by lockdown. I saw it yesterday. Literally whipping up hysteria among anxious parents. Dickhead.

Presumably this announcement will be on bbc? I don’t normally watch tv and just catch up on the Internet

They’ll have to stop the fines if they expect people to self isolate for 14 days with symptoms.

I expect they’ll just be expected to get same day testing and be back as normal if it’s negative no matter how they feel!

Is it the 10 minute slot on BBC at 7? Prime Minister’s Address?

We aren’t going to get much in 10 minutes