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

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Ds is meant to have come off of ps to take the dog out and then have a talk with me and hasn’t. I’m struggling to find the energy to go deal with it pfrench. Maybe if I was a non teacher I could now deflect my sense of inadequacy and frustration onto those bloody teachers who should have been remotely forcing him out of bed and into zoom meetings at 8am.

Ha yep.

Mine is currently out for a walk with her dad. He had to bodily remove her screaming from the house though. I've since just sat here like a lemon not doing the lesson recording I need to do.

I just want to go back to school 'normally', this is all shit.

No riga sorry. I stumbled across it on Twitter accidentally.

I think what depressed me most about the thread I was engaging with before my mn break was that people really didn’t give a shit what teachers might be going through. We were expected to understand parents were working from home, struggling etc but they couldn’t even pretend to give a shit when teachers said they were neglecting their own children, worried about family who were ill etc. They didn’t care that good teachers and TAs were quitting their jobs. No one even bothered replying to my explanation of safeguarding with short staff and students who present a risk to other students and are meant to have 1:1 even following them to the bathroom.

No one would seem to acknowledge we are mothers

Interesting though

There is very little support for Jane Moore on the Loose Women fb page - lots of parents and grandparents saying how well their schools are doing - it’s reassuring not everywhere is like here

I've also noticed that parents who aren't teachers are more stressed about it than those who are. Lots of my teacher mates have given up a bit.
yep and yep

I just want to go back to school 'normally', this is all shit. Me too!! This is the crap bits of teaching with none of the good bits!

@pfrench Lots of my teacher mates have given up a bit.
I can totally see that. I don't dare ask my teacher mates if their kids are doing well though, I'd be embarrassed if they said "oh yes, my child is doing 6hrs a day" when I can only manage 2, max!!
Do you think the teachers of our DC think less of us, because we're teachers and you know, we should be doing more, because we know what's expected?

No. I reckon we all know how fellow teachers are struggling. I sort of do random things. Plus, they know I'll not let mine do nothing indefinitely

I thought I was doing well to get 2 hours work out of mine! well I sometimes get 3 hours out if the 8 year old but that's only when you count in TTRS and free choice BBC Bitesize daily.

They also have carol vorderman maths books and cgp reading comprehension /phonics workbooks.

So, can anyone join the dots for me here?
One of the ways we've been assured it's "safe" to return to school is for testing of anyone who presents with Covid-19 symptoms. And today I believe it's been mentioned that children from the age of 5 upwards can now have tests.
Do you see where I'm going with this? How old are Nursery and many Reception children?

Yep again call.

Yes, I feel like a rubbish parent at the moment too. Feeling low today. Here's a Twitter thread along similar lines.

twitter.com/jonnykayteacher/status/1261326452634652672?s=19

Yes I wondered that

Yes dreaming I'm feeling like a crap parent as well. Dd2 isnt getting as much attention as I think she should, and is getting far too much screen time.

Call you may have spotted their cunning plan, but I bet nobody else in the country has. It's practically flawless 😁

And another thing, when the Government were looking round the room for someone to send out to be interviewed to put teachers' minds at rest that it was safe to go back to work, who the HELL thought, "Yes! Let's send Michael Gove!"

You’d be hard pressed to find someone we trust less than gove.

Maybe it was, go on gove, they already think you’re evil incarnate, you’ve nothing to lose.

It’s the equivalent of getting IDS to reassure disabled people about a benefits system overhaul

Thanks callmeA that comment perked me up for a minute or two.

Decent ish chat with ds and deals made. Now just needs both of us to stick to them. I must find the courage to compose an email saying I can’t manage my disability and reduce stress unless I am allowed to switch departments. I’m being a very weak and anxious about it and can’t figure out why. Maybe because I’m scared they’ll say no and I won’t know where to go from there

4.3 Are schools opening during May half term?
We trust schools to make arrangements that work for their school community, in consultation with parents and carers of vulnerable children and those who are critical workers

2 hours? If anyone is getting 2 hours work out of their kid, then that's a bloody good effort. I literally get 10 minutes. I don't think I'd care if she was older either, unless she was perhaps an exam year or something. At primary who cares. It's far too soon for kids to have to care about present perfect tense or whatever anyway.

Yes! Let's send Michael Gove

We'll go back on 1st June and he'll take it as a win too.

No one has been outside my house today. Ds gets kicked off xbox and goes straight to ipad. Although now I am making them sit in. The garden until tea is ready.

Well I now have half the class' responses to my survey and not one of them has shown any enthusiasm at all for live lessons - so much for them being the gold standard/panacea!

My school is not open over half term. Our head needs a break if no one else (everyone else DSL or SLT is sheilding).

If necessary, settings have the flexibility to focus first on continuing to provide places for priority groups and then, to support children’s early learning, settings should prioritise groups of children as follows:
• Early years settings – 3 and 4 year olds followed by younger age groups
• Infant schools - nursery (where applicable) and Reception
• Primary schools – nursery (where applicable), Reception and year 1

They have not mentioned year 6 in this updated coronavirus document. Probably doesn't mean anything though.