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.

You can play here only if you are a member of one the following groups-

-ABBA - anti bashers and baiting association
-SWAB - school workers against bashers
-SWOT - school workers opposing teacherbashers
-STARS - schoolworkers together against ranting + slurs

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.

@ChloeDecker - I’m being constantly mothered by my own kids for my mouse because it’s too hard to do spellings online with just the touch pad

This is interesting from SAGE :

To avoid these problems we would advocate trialling easing restrictions very gradually when epidemiologically indicated while clearly explaining why these particular activities are being resumed and how risks must be controlled if these activities are to be maintained. This will also allow an opportunity to gather epidemiological evidence about the impact of easing the restriction and be used to provide evidence to the public about the impact of that restriction. To maintain public trust and support it will be important to have acceptable and equitable criteria for selecting which activities can be resumed. For example, it may be difficult to justify easing restrictions solely for economic activities without any easing of restrictions for low risk activities with significant social and psychological benefit

I wonder if the govt will pay attention to this. You can't just bung everybody out of the door to work and school but still ban them from a single or two person round of golf or other such low risk activity.

Can I join please? Secondary teacher, single parent and very anxious. Struggling to homeschool and all the weekends reports has me glued and anxiety levels have reached a new high. Difficult juggling schoolwork with work work. x

I read that too piggy. Interesting.

Also this.

But he says there are circumstances in which masks can be useful. He says the risk of infection at one metre away from an infected source is 10 to 30 times higher than at two metres.

This! So many times!

Hi GoingCrazy! It’s tough isn’t it? My DC does most of the school at the weekend for this very reason!

Carrieblue - I sympathise with them-I hate touch pads! Always use my usb mouse with my laptop I started the lockdown with teaching my 4 year old how to use a mouse. Frustrating for both of us but a few weeks later and she’s a little better

Oh no I just read an article in the Telegraph and now I’m annoyed.

It’s suggesting that schools will have to be cleaned constantly and that teachers who expect that to be done by ‘a vast army of cleaners’ are just lazy. Instead of, y’know, being busy doing their actual job.

@Goingcrazzy - you are more than welcome to enter our safe supportive space

#solidarity

Birbalsingh on BBC News now.

I have never actually heard her speak!

@noblegiraffe - I am refusing to read that article

#lazyjournalistslacksinfoaboutschools

@pinkrocker - I need to use that for my Year 10 students

Eh up.
Big Gavs in the commons now.

I fully expect they will tell us to clean. At which point I will sign myself off because of my allergies, I guess.

@Beawillalwaysbetopdog

Adult daughter is threatening to confiscate my phone if she finds me reading one of 'those' threads and likens it to the self-harming scrolling through the twitter pages of an ex.

That is why we created the Republic - to counter the dreadful negativity elsewhere

#stayawayfrom AIBU #solidarity

noblegiraffe I don't mind wiping down desks with antibac spray, but they'd better not suggest we should be cleaning toilets - there's no way I'm going near pishy lavvies

Hopefully the unions are kicking Big Gav into touch

We get The Times every day but I draw the line at the Torygraph.

Would be very interesting to be a fly on the wall in all the behind-the-scenes meetings.

RLB asked good questions. He didn't really answer them in my opinion.

Yes, I read on Twitter. Evasive is an understatement.

I clean my own room. It needs anti-bac stuff (and a good scrub to remove the dried-on eggy floury lumps) I believe my room should be cleaned to an excellent hygiene standard. Not that other rooms aren't as clean, but you know what I mean.
The spray the cleaners use is pants anyhow. Happy for them to sweep the floors and empty bins, but can honestly say I've not seen my floor washed. Ever.

Good afternoon, I am half way through my days trawl of finding where the students have hidden their remote learning, it might be on Teams, via e-mail or where they should put it, on SMHW/Satchel or whatever. My Dd was a classic case. It took me the first two weeks to realise that although she was getting on with her school work and I had witnessed it, she wasn't actually submitting any of it. Durrr!!!!

Thanks for the welcome. Was cleaning in the weeks before schools closing. Couldn't get the cleaning staff, lol I walked into my classroom with a Hoover left in, it hadn't been hoovered! I imagine this will become an issue for us all!

Am feeling very anxious again today. When you read that they intend for schools in Spain to only be operating at 50% capacity in September, yet goodness knows what ours will look like in June.

We now have the highest death rate in Europe!

I dettol wiped my room the week before we closed too, but I suspect a new level of cleaning will be needed.

If offices are being told ‘no hotdesking’ but schools basically work like that then each desk will need wiping between every lesson (along with door handles). But we need to set up for the next lesson between lessons too, so what will the kids be doing in the meantime? Can’t have them queued up in the corridors.