The Fifth Republic - safe space? Solidarity Comrades!

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

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.

@TheHoneyBadger you have it spot on.

I wish someone had asked him when teachers and TAs are supposed to get any sort of break.

Can I just show you this. cyprus-mail.com/2020/05/16/coronavirus-four-new-cases-all-in-schools/amp/?p=312927&__twitter_impression=true
(I follow all the Cypriot news btw!)

I've felt for a while that JH is the Govt's creature.

He repeatedly said he had worked with the unions. No. You haven't.

@Piggywaspushed if his door is always open maybe someone can ask him about breaks

Maybe he had talked to the unions but just ignored them

He kept trotting out the phrase vulnerable and disadvantaged children but didn’t once mention the laptops they were supposed to be given to access home learning online. Also didn’t mention that vulnerable children can come to school with the key workers children.

So glad I missed it. Watching Cats the musical instead on YouTube

No worries @TheHoneyBadger, I agree and certainly will be following my union and not engaging with a June 1st return. I just hope enough others do!

Will vulnerable children be more likely to come after 1st June?

And also maybe the number of vulnerable children is partly down to Government policies

And also maybe the number of vulnerable children is partly down to Government policies

The irony is lost on big Gav.

Sorry should have mentioned. The Cyprus weekly links to a report that their schools have just gone back this week. Loads of testing been done. Teachers and students have both been tested positive for the virus. I wondered at the implications for us, and wondered if the Cypriot schools will lock down.
Didn't mean to derail the conversation.

Two children on Look East just now he got coronavirus. The 14 year old was in an induced coma and in 3 different hospitals for 4 weeks. Who said children don't suffer.

I can almost guarantee that one child won't want to eat the lunch of another

Excuse me?!

Has this woman ever been in a school at lunchtime?

Hell, has she even ever met a child?!

This is a nightmare.

Another thing Harries said that annoyed me was the low number of deaths for schoolworkers whilst saying very fast just before that that 'of course we have ben locked down'.

And maybe those vulnerable children should have been visited by their social workers and had some of that budget spent on them during lockdown

Not derailing pink. Think we’re just caught up in our individual rants currently lol

Interesting re Cyprus.

But kids don't pass it on. Ha!

I did think , to his credit, Gav did give the Mail on Sunday guy short shrift and his heroes comment was definitely a swipe.

To be fair the Cyprus story has 2 pupils in one school (maybe siblings, don't know) and staff in other educational places. Only picked up because they are testing students and staff - there is no evidence of students spreading it as far as I can see?

Another thread on bubbles.

So true though how many parents will want to change bubbles? As it isn't working for them such as their friend is in a different group.

Ffs - it so pisses me off what someone says you don’t know what it like to be poor. Thatcher came down like a tonne of bricks on my family.

Anyway I think people would rather pay more tax than to fund education themselves.

@WhyNotMe40 no you're absolutely right there. There's no proof of spreading, but I'm wondering if their government have any tracking or tracing. Like we're meant to get?

Staff I’m a single mum on a 0.4 contract with UC top up due to disabilities and paying about £900 (cheapest I can get here but we’ll below mythical housing allowance levels) in rent and council tax. We’re living below the poverty line.

I do find the assumption that teachers are all middle class 2 salaries households tedious. I get lectured by members of those households on how I have to go back to work because they’ll starve if they don’t have free childcare for another month