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

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She's told us before now that he's fat and useless. Apparently.

Is there anywhere to read the union transcript?

@RigaBalsam they said it would be published later this eve.
There were some horror stories, mind! i.e a HT ignoring everything and opening up school next week.

Oh gosh pink.

The big MATs are getting so much praise form gov and in media and yet someone needs to flag up the retention in these schools, the tribunals, the bullying, the fact they can't recruit.

Piggywaspushed

Be interesting to see if they shutdown again due to to many kids with C-19

All the Unison document seems to be saying is that June 1st is non-statutory. So as someone said on the previous thread, it looks like they want members to be the ones refusing to play ball with the planning and set up. Nothing about what you can do if your Head is taking June 1st as gospel and ploughing on ahead with unrealistic demands.
No toilet cleaning for me, though. No toilet cleaning for anyone except after everyone has gone home. So very sanitary in a pandemic spread by droplets and bodily fluids

As the BBC’s Chris Mason reports, Raab also stressed that 1 June was only a provisional deadline. The government only said pupils might go back then if certain conditions were met.

Lots more if and might emphasis today. I’m still not convinced it’s going to happen. Even London who were doing well in terms of infection rates etc are now seeing new care home breakouts

Outbreaks! I knew as I wrote breakouts it was wrong but only after I posted did the word outbreak come to me. I’m going senile

Though I’d be breaking out if I was in a care home

All the kids in my school come by taxi/mini bus. The head has said parents can bring them in! No word yet about how after half term will look.

DS2's school is another rural one. We are actually out of catchment, there is a mix of school organised and council run buses. Poor admin is trying to get numbers for September just now. School head has told us he hopes to share the Y12 plan on Wednesday. I hope it's ok for him and all his teachers.

There's been a lot of misinterpretation with that date; it was the earliest they could open from, if conditions were right and if the school could operate safely with only 50% pupils not an instructor to definitely must open.

(Those years plus keyworkers would be roughly under 50%)

That's what the media and so parents have completely forgotten!

That's ok for the local ones isn't it raspberry, but SEN schools have huge catchment areas don't they? Parents could easily be driving a long way to bring their child to school.

Wednesday is the day our head says he's hoping to share what provision we'll be making for years 10 and 12. I have no idea what sorts of plans he's making. It would be nice to know before the parents/pupils, but I suspect it'll only be hours earlier if we do.

Yes I have no idea what they're doing about transport at ours. (Sen) Many parents don't have a car or drive.

Sometimes it's fortuitous that 2-3 children in a class are in the same taxi but it's rare.

My friend works at a V posh private school (one of the biggies), she just a) sent me the union stuff to make sure I was going to sign everything! and b) that they thought about bringing back years 10 and 12 but it 'seems logistically a nightmare' so they probably won't.

Erm, it's a logistical nightmare everywhere, we just don't get the choice.

One if the reasons I think sen schools are doing their own thing.

According to the Zoe Covid radar symptomatic percentage of the population has tripled in the last week or so in my area.

I really hope we do not go ahead as planned..

They said areas would be colour coded; nothing has happened yet? I wonder if that will impact?

Very good report worth watching on the Channel 4 news website takes teachers concerns very seriously.

https://www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-anger-over-arrogant-academy-email-covid-19-risks

Checked it through with a solicitor

www.tes.com/news/school-reopening-june-coronavirus-conversation-government-scared

This is quite funny if it wasn't so likely true.

It would be nice to know before the parents/pupils, but I suspect it'll only be hours earlier if we do

I suspect it will be the same for us....

So that we can't argue.

Bit like a microcosm of government really!

That did make me chuckle riga.

That did make me chuckle riga.

Victoria Derbyshire is always very good as well, I find. She is the only reporter who called Sharma out on his non answers to school questions.