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.

@RigaBalsam some of the comments under that article are vile!

Some people really do hate teachers

My classroom is hotter than hell in June and July... I think I will expire if I have to wear PPE!

I can only read the start of that article as I'm not subscribing (not even for the free trial as I am terrible for forgetting to cancel free trials). It didn't look good for teachers though, so maybe it's better I stay away from it

Torygraph readers definitely more likely to hate 'lefty' teachers than generally people hate teachers.

I bring many clean mugs and the Nespresso machine I normally hide in my office.
Feeling horrendous today, struggling to deal with the inability of students to read the instructions and the barrage of abuse from parents that we are making life difficult for them. We have asked for a 10 sentence paragraph relating to philosophical topic they have done...120 emails today alone of 'you never told us' or 'can't find it'.
They should have been following this scheme for 4 weeks , they have been told 8 times via homework platform and had weekly lessons sent to them...apparently I'm the useless one.

It's not you, it's them, deadheadsticker. Quality name by the way!

Afternoon all. Dreadful morning in the hub. Had to split up two fights. It’s all EBD boys.

Feel like telling them to sack it, it’s not worth this stress. Haven’t even looked on Seesaw and have gazillions of notifications.

Thankfully I have elderflower gin.

My friend got spat towards and sworn at last week. She has now refused to be on the rota.

Oh Moss that's horrible for you! I'm sorry. I fear with all the ebd's and full of themselves 6's back a lot will kick off.

I really love elderflower gin - i made my own elderflower wine once and it was glorious. Serve yourself a big one with a couple of chunks of cucumber in it too and a sprig of rosemary. And then another one.

I imagine Ross is happily ensconced working from home , planning his daily bile. I doubt many Torygraph readers are at work either.

I imagine Ross is happily ensconced working from home , planning his daily bile. I doubt many Torygraph readers are at work either.

Probably would not enter a room with people in it a long with Matt Hancock.

Have had another day of pushing a boulder up a mountain (aka getting ds to do school work). Apologies to the relevant teachers but we've deleted rather than joined google classrooms for design, food, drama, modern foreign languages and art because ds (year 8) is dropping all of those this year.

I feel concern for eg. drama or food tech teachers and sincerely hope they're not getting hassled over number of year 8's engaging with online work when presumably it's obvious what percentage are actually taking the subject as a gcse and therefore continuing to engage.

I'm trying to say ok there is no 'actual' news till Thursday and even then it will be a speculative outline of what 'might' happen rather than concrete announcements.

Try not to get sucked into the media speculation - no matter how confident they sound or how many papers run with the same theory it really is just speculation x

To the teachers moaning that students are getting in touch asking things that they should have known weeks ago I would politely say give them (and their parents) a break. You don't know what they've been dealing with that has meant school took a back seat and many might have thought it was just till after easter etc etc.

At least they're trying now to get stuck in when they could just go hmm I can't ask now because I'll get judged for not having gotten started earlier.

It's so easy to parent bash as a teacher and teacher bash as a parent. I get one at work and the other from family and friends. Neither helps anyone.

My friend got spat towards and sworn at last week. She has now refused to be on the rota.

Wouldn’t it be glorious if the school conducted a risk assessment and refused to have the kid in instead?

I have noticed the expectations of my colleagues who are young and so-far childfree are rather greater than mine with regard to how much work a child can do at home.

Ah, no noble. Instead they scrabble about trying to find staff who are willing to transport him to school.

I appreciate why you deleted those subjects honey but us poor teachers do get a rather higher proportionate workload because (nearly) all parents force them to do them, and schools sometimes really the message of focusing on the core. I think this explains why all my year 10 core(well, nearly) are doing my work and only about 1/2 of my option (who always gush about how much they'love'it!) are.

Don't suppose there is a solution to that but it would be nice of SLT recognised the imbalance that can be created of both workload and expectation !

I meant us poor core teachers

Logged onto Teams.

Lots of "submitted 23 days late" things on there. Either that or "I can't do it on teams" (it's an editable document, you type into it?) "Can I send it by email?" And then even better, a photo of 4 sheets of paper I'm supposed to magically read the 1mm high text on 🤦‍♀️

By the time those were done, the assessments were marked, the Yr12 essays marked and returned with improvement and I had logged, added to spreadsheets and chased the non workers I'd spent 7hrs staring at a screen and felt a bit ragey.

And I'm feeling like I'm starting a cold. Could be hayfever. Hoping it's not Coronavirus!!

There's wine in the fridge. I will be partaking.

twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1257702438527807489

Research out just in time for planning for Thursday and Sunday's announcements.

Nothing would make me happier than children not being likely to get or spread the virus. Not sure I'm convinced yet that this is the case.
Can I ask, core subjects are often mentioned on here - which subjects are those in English schools?

On my local news they are showing the Vauxhall car plant and showcasing its return to work measures. Lots of cordoned off desks, socially distanced queuing to get in, screens, masks, goggles and temperatures taken on arrival. Not allowed in if it's over 37.5.

This'll be interesting as don't women's temperatures often rise above this during their cycle?

Mine was 37.8 last week for no apparent reason. I got a thermometer after I was ill! Handy...

English, maths, science mistress.

R in Denmark has apparently gone from 0.6 to 0.9 since schools re-opened.

Obviously we can't really track R properly without really good tracking methods going on.

www.thelocal.dk/20200430/reopening-denmark-has-increased-rate-of-infection-spread-ssu