The Sixth Republic - Will we or won’t we? That is the question! #solidarity

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WhyNotMe40
I'd love to hear from students and hear what they are doing. Our school have had some lovely messages from parents as well.

I used to find top sets would do no written work.in.class, but would get loads done at home.

Lower sets would have every word dragged out of them butwould do.the work set..they'd do nothing at home though.

Dh is home and teaching today. He' s adopting the 70s model of his youth, which consists of calling them.potatoes, making them stand in the corner with hands on.head and then.sending them out to me. Lots of laughter, but now he's off for a run, as they're getting on.his tits.

Would you want to see snippets of work once a week from every one of your class?

Yes please! I feel I am shouting/planning into the void at the moment. The only kid who sends stuff in is working 3 years below where he should be. It's GREAT he's working, but that's the stuff that I've photocopied and put in the post - all the day to day stuff that is taking ALL OF MY TIME may as well be being ignored.

I notice though that it's the same old parents (inc me) who are sending pics etc into my child's Google Classroom.

Have the unions said anything today? I am not comfortable with the media narrative not one bit.

NEU have sent a couple of emails -one had a checklist of things to ask your school. There is a meeting at 6pm, I think.

Whynotme40 absolutely send work , we all share kids work that’s been sent on our school group to.
Helps us keep positive that parents and children are engaging in it.

And no no one challenged Jane Moore , I cannot believe she actually said that. Ha bet she is on here

I have three teens working from home and the least academic of mine is probably doing the best with adapting to home school learning.

Riga I'm having a similar stream of emails. It's awful! I've never had so many pupils with ill or dying relatives at one time before. In the past few weeks more kids have lost a grandparent than in the full 12 months beforehand. It's so sad :(

I had a sensible reply to what neuro?

Feeling rotten today. Mixture of feeling down and anxious and a bit paranoid. Presume it’s the absence management meeting playing on my mind but a bit of despair at reading mn and conclusions about where society is heading. Everyone’s rights are going down the swanny if everyone’s concerns are met with what about ism ad infinitum in a rush to the bottom.

Pretty sad how easy it is to divide and rule

Thank you. I was worried I was adding to their workload.

Riga that's so sad

To Phleb, re asthma :)

The risk assessments and stuff that schools will do aren't worth the paper they are written on. Unions know this, the government know this, we know it, heads know it... the whole thing is fucking insane frankly.

I'm still not looking at any news sites or Twitter. I can feel the flat spin starting even if I think about it too much.

Why have the unions gone quiet? I feel defeated. Gove says we go back.... so it looks like back we go.😥

Whynotme, this is the best part of my workload at the moment - seeing what the children have been doing. I like reading the emails from parents too and it does brighten up the day.

Definitely keep sending them in!

It is really awful. I don't think this even crosses the mind of the government. There are so many implications.

@phlebasconsidered - bollocks to cleaning the toilets! If your SLT are keen on toilet cleaning they can do it. You have lessons to prepare and deliver.

Honest to god it would take a Head with some balls to suggest to secondary school teachers that they had to clean toilets. He/she would not get out of the staffroom alive.

Bollocks to the Rules!

Sorry, someone with my user name had to say that...

In other countries, such as DENMARK (klaxon) premises were inspected and H and S signed off.

Do these schools setting no work really exist? I’ve just had an email from ds’s English teacher clarifying what they’re continuing with this week and that she’ll be marking on Monday when she’s back in school. She’s the only one copying in parents email addresses but when I got ds logged into his school email there were emails from all teachers and there’s a google classroom set up for every subject.

When ds wasn’t logging onto anything I had a welfare check type phone call from year head. When the maths teacher setting work switched to dr frost and ds hadn’t submitted work on there he emailed me.

Even though we didn’t engage with school set work initially when we have started with key subjects I’ve been able to clarify things and where I’ve wanted to focus on different things eg. Read the English lit key gcse texts with ds, teachers have happily advised titles etc.

We’re not a freakishly good school, our head left without notice shortly before covid issues and we have staff shortages and we’re the local hub.

I’m genuinely finding it hard to believe there are any schools doing nothing even though the guidelines would have allowed them to do pretty much that.

That's what I mean, it's all bullshit. Anything can be signed off in theory. I mean, I sign a thing saying I'll use a step up thingy to put things on my walls, but I stand on tables all the time because the step up thingy isn't high enough, and I'm not allowed to have the key to the cupboard where the ladder is. So to get a ladder I have to book time in the caretaker's diary to come and help me. Put something on a working wall.

H&S assessments are just to cover an organisation's arse.

Teacher Tapp end read really interesting today. 84% of teachers don't trust the government to use the science properly.

The awful Carole Malone is now gunning for a particular school. It's that Chris Dysons so this will go well...

Do you think the journalists are doing this because they want to stop themselves from being the third most mistrusted and hated profession??

Found you! Cheese board more than welcome here @cheesecurdsandgravy.

I am plodding along here. Waiting for news from school as to how they expect to proceed. Completed a survey for the DC's primary school and emailed the head to say why I had given the answers I had. Got a lovely reply back. If nothing else, I know the primary school wants to put everyone's best interests at heart and is wondering how they can best achieve that.

Piggywaspushed

I think that the majority stopped being journalists a long time ago.

It's mental health week (who knew!). So I have decided no news/ staffroom in the morning do at least 10 mins exercise before I start work and try to spend time helping my own children (failing already with reports and rankings to do!) oh and try a live Q&A session.

It's that Chris Dysons so this will go well

Haha, his community love him though - as far as I can tell. I don't know him other than on Twitter, but should be interesting.