The Fifth Republic - safe space? Solidarity Comrades!

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You are most welcome to this school staff support thread to get us through stressful times. It is meant for school staff. 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.

In the other staffroom, there is rhubarb & ginger gin, along with tea and coffee.

First post of the day reported - though I doubt anything will happen.

The Oasis head was on telly a short while ago. I must say he did not coma across well and was called out on his assumption that wc parents don't worry about their children's health and safety!

He seemed very aggressive. Geoff came across much better.

I always had quite a lot of time for Steve Chalk back when he stuck to being a vicar. Oh well.

His point about vulnerable children is valid. He can say that without making assumptions about MC parents.

Yes, quite.
My rage is centred on the fact that it has suddenly become ONLY schools' responsibility to face disadvantage in society. No one has ever mentioned social care and social workers.

I am also enraged by the hypocrisy of Tories suddenly pretending to care about the working classes.

I don't know Steve Chalk : but he came across very badly.

Yes, quite.
My rage is centred on the fact that it has suddenly become ONLY schools' responsibility to face disadvantage in society. No one has ever mentioned social care and social workers.

This exactly its a huge societal issue. That the government are only bringing to the helm now.

Kevin Courtney was good this morning-not sure how to link to the clip but it was on fb-interview with with Naga.

Riga, l agree.

My secondary school has a fair few y10 pupils in because their parents can’t cope with them.

Why is it that this gets reported with a pretty reasonable headline?

Yet we get, ‘leftie Marxist unions threaten to tear apart our country’

?!

Almost all of the kids in at my school are there because their parents can't cope with them or because they are under social services. The only keyworkers children are supermarket or carers children. Coping with the behaviour is awful.

Because everyone believes anyway that teachers are militant lefties and that children 'don't get corona'.

I have just noticed the minister for schools due for the webchat used to work in finance... good grief.

Anyone want a load of empty university lecture theatres to put your overflow 15 child classes in?
We do trade rates!

Feel so angry this morning. Must stop looking at newspaper headlines. The mail are a fucking disgrace, God forbid their millionaire owners lose any money

@worstofbothworlds I think that is what some countries have done, used otherwise empty buildings for additional classrooms.

I'm sorry. I caved, and flowered

Oh dear, I wasn't serious!

I’m sure a group of 3-4 year olds would love to rampage round a lecture theatre

Sounds perfect! What could go wrong?

A university classroom with clean desks, padded chairs, suitable technology for displaying powerpoints, adjustable temperatures, windows that open, lighting that can be adjusted - they’ll never let children into that sort of utopia (and the chairs would have to be removed as unwipeable, and carpeted floors wouldn’t be ideal either)

It really tells you something when that clean, tidy, uncluttered environment isn’t safe for university students (you know, the best and brightest, degree studying folk)... but yep, bring on in the five year olds!

My online engagement has plummeted since Monday. Looks like they’re all coming back 😭

Wor Kev is meeting Whitty and Valance today.

Can we watch??

A university classroom with clean desks, padded chairs, suitable technology for displaying powerpoints, adjustable temperatures, windows that open, lighting that can be adjusted
I don't recognise this type of classroom... Especially not the clean, working, and correct temperature bit!

Riga, l agree.

My secondary school has a fair few y10 pupils in because their parents can’t cope with them.

We even have two Year 12s in.

Year 12s??! Wow