The Fourth Republic Rises - 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.

TheHoneyBadger

I have just reported her. that thread is not the place for being a twat.

Quick bolt the staff room door - I fear the flat-earthers are getting closer.

AIBU & Corona have lost some of their peeps and they have wandered into Education

Oh Gawd, another thread to make me cross?
Don’t worry! They are only making themselves look more and more stupid

Interesting timing from YouGov...

Do they think we are stupid??

Do be aware that YouGov is owned by one current and one ex Tory MP.

I'm wondering if I can get banned for reporting to many posts.

not a teacher You could get all the doors rigged up on hold open devices like you see on the street (main corridor) of your local hospital. They'd need to be linked in to the fire alarm system, so that when it was triggered they'd all release to maintain the integrity of the fire safety of the building. It would be pricey. It may also catapult some of your smaller pupils quite a distance
And sorry you're all having to put up with this shit. You didn't sign up for this any more than the NHS staff did, and they've got PPE.
If you can check what Alok Sharma just said on the briefing about Health and Safety in the Workplace, maybe approach your situation from a different angle.
and finally, as a non-parent, thanks for all you do

I STILL don't understand why Academics' Corner is tucked away in employment and we end up on active threads constantly.

How long until the hate?

Teachers are on a collision course with the government over the reopening of primary schools in England on June 1 after the biggest teaching union ordered them not to “engage” with the planning process.
The National Education Union (NEU) said it was unconvinced that there was any scientific basis behind government guidance issued yesterday that teachers did not need PPE equipment to keep them safe from coronavirus.
The union said it also needed to see the scientific evidence behind guidance that social distancing rules, considered key to stopping the spread of the virus, did not need to be followed in schools as long as class sizes were small and stringent hygiene was followed.
Teachers cannot strike over the issue because there has been no ballot.

Thanks pussycat : we complained vociferously about things as simple as not having tissues before lockdown and the level of cleaning. I am not on KW rota but apparently it is just as bad now

From now on, I will insist our union rep contacts the HSE.

I had the gel stuff taken off my desk because other classes had used all theirs up, and therefore it was unfair that I still had some and others didn't.

There was no soap in the ladies toilets or in the dispenser in my classroom, I bought my own stuff in from home.

Just watched the daily briefing and no mention, not even from the journalists, about Schools and the DfE guidance. No one actually gives a c**p about Teachers safety do they 😔

But they can boycott

Why is twatty Williamson not doing the wanky briefing today, or why didn't he do it yesterday? I get that it's the business guy today due to furlough announcement but surely schools reopening warranted more of a focus?

Gin o'clock comrades.

If I see the BMA piece on kids not spreading it one more time I shall pop.

‘Stringent hygiene was followed’.

It won’t be.

I have just replied to an email from SLT with a list of things that don’t/won’t meet standards. Like the use of a windowless room for ICT and the hand sanitiser provided being the foam stuff that has no alcohol in it. Not surprisingly, there was plenty of that available at the supplier 🤦‍♀️
Some other stuff specific to the school and children I can’t put here, too.
Fuck being popular and on hours that can be reduced for Sept.

Keep reporting threads btw

If I see the BMA piece on kids not spreading it one more time I shall pop.

I asked the author of that to help me out with the viral load question, he has ignored me repeatedly on Twitter (yet replied to other people before and after me, even just directing some to the article or other data - ie he can't answer it). The exact situation of children in a classroom has not been researched properly.

We'd only have to wait a month or so to get proper info from European countries with similar education ethos to us. I don't think that places like Wuhan or Taiwan are a good comparison because their societal approach to education is just so different.

Have poured a glass of red neuro. Pretty much the end of my supplies. We have empty fridge and no bread or easy grab food (lazy 13yo makes this a necessary thing).

Luckily Tesco are coming in an hour or so with fun food and booze.

People on other boards keep telling us we don't care about them, their jobs and the economy. It is fairly clear journalists aren't interested in education - or the government , but we knew that!

Good on you pfrench! the guy on the bbc said what all teachers and parents know. Why the fuck would this particular coronavirus be any different to the others with children??

I'm on the gin too.

I really want a Chinese tonight but I'm not overly keen on takeaways atm- probably overcautious but there you are. Our local does these amazing meat broth dumplings.... ah well.

Just had fun telling three 12 year olds to piss off. Oh the freedom of not being at work!

I am joining @NeurotrashWarrior for a gin and tonic

I will ask MN again about tucking the Staffroom elsewhere because we seem to be attracting some rather nasty types who only want to goad us.

@pussycatinboots - yes schools are not exempt from HSE

My reporting the thread finger is tired today. Meaningless replies from @MNHQ saying "play nicely" on the worst threads. FFS you'd think with the millions @JustineMumsnet is raking in she could monitor a forum, yes she has furloughed staff but if teachers can work from home why can't MN staff? No way will I ever, EVER pay premium. EVER.

Notice they never talk about what they do and what work they’ve been doing over lockdown or what conditions they’re expected to go back into.

None of them will be working in 3m square rooms with 15 colleagues and no ppe. Most of them will have been furloughed or wfh and continuing like that for the foreseeable future. For some reason we deserve to have it worse than them.