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

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

Traditionally, kids finished for the summer to help on farms.

Ta dah!

I work on a family farm in my school holidays PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON’T MAKE ME DEAL WITH TEENS THERE TOO!

Sorry. I normally just read these threads to help with my sanity rather than contributing. I’ll go back to the naughty corner lurking now that I’ve had my outburst.

Pointedly ignoring it because obviously MNers will notice

Not posted today but have been lurking. Have swapped from to and in the past 24 hours with crap parent guilt. Went to bed with a glass of wine and plate of cheese and biscuits last night and woke up after bad dreams with a hangover . Feeling a bit better tonight though.

Welcome to SquashedFlyBiscuits and OceanOrchid. Glad you've found the links for Y8 Maths useful HoneyBadger.

Yay for The Guardian:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/19/the-guardian-view-on-plans-for-primary-schools-stop-bullying-teachers

Can.you imagine the threads if kids had to.work.on.farms

Great article Piggywaspushed

Sadly I got drawn in echt

Ahh lovely article.

I think posters fail to realise there are about 15 threads a day on schools of some sort ok maybe hyperbole.

I also see Cambridge are going to online lessons for a year. One rule for one..

Excellent piece.

The comments are illuminating too, especially about schools in France being shut down again after re-opening.

Aha! Eventually a parent has started a thread that says 'Wait? What? Year 10 are going back on June 1st?'

Quite a few posters have said Boris said this and it was terribly terribly clear and how could she not know!

Not that we would read this dross but avoid Daily mail headlines tomorrow And the Torygraph the agenda is getting boring now. Still makes me angry though.

Which thread is that Piggy?

The AIBU one about a spelling mistake on an Oak lesson is super - some nice responses.

My LSA today said something about this - 'you just know that certain parents will be looking for mistakes, taking the piss out of you right?' - hadn't even entered my head!!

I've been ultra careful about mistakes in my videos (but have of course made some mistakes like attaching the wrong worksheet, or no worksheet at all). I don't mind making mistakes in front of the kids, we have a laugh about it and we all agree that everybody makes mistakes, it's how we learn, etc. I do mind making mistakes in front of parents, as I know some of them will take it as proof that I'm a bit crap. Although I had a lovely email from one of my sen pupils parents, thanking me for my videos as they are really clear and help her help her child. She's acting as his 1-1 while we're in lockdown, and hadn't done much in the way of maths since she left school, so they figure it out together from my videos :)
It was such a lovely message and made me feel like this is actually worth it.

@pinkrocker secondary here our head has emailed and said we’re not doing unless they can guarantee the safety of us and our students. Head hasn’t asked us for availability or anything but just said they will at one point - they already asked us previously who wanted to work, who didn’t, who was vulnerable/sheilding/looking after kids etc. They have been great tbh. I’m NEU rep so attending meetings this week about schools in our borough and opening.....

Ooh that's interesting, are there many in your borough not opening? (Won't ask where as it's outing!!) None as yet in my County...

Fucking insomnia!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/19/up-to-1500-english-primary-schools-to-defy-1-june-reopening-plan?CMP=ShareiOSAppOther

Guardian has detailed a number of councils who are stopping the opening as well as some who are allowing individual schools to risk assess and decide themselves, my son's Lea being one of those.

Also,

deputy chief scientific adviser Dame Angela McLean said all changes to lockdown would require an effective system for tracing and isolating new cases to be in place, effectively adding a sixth test. McLean said changes should be based on “observed levels of infection … and not of a fixed date”.

☕️

Oh an loads of headlines about how the blame game has started. At least it's not teacher's fault as yet...

I didn't watch briefing yesterday so sorry if that's old news

This is an important thread to watch I feel:

Let’s stop calling it ‘Kawasaki-like’ syndrome www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3914382-Let-s-stop-calling-it-Kawasaki-like-syndrome

*The name for the COVID-related illness hitting children is Paediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (PMIS). Now that it’s recognised as a separate entity, we can discuss on its own terms.

• Research suggests that symptoms appear 12 weeks after initial infection, six weeks after recovery. So the uptick in cases now result from infection with Coronavirus in February/March
• Initially seemed to affect the under 5s; now it appears to be 5-18 year olds.*

Just woken up this morning to see the BMA have withdrawn their opposition to schools opening. Great!

Where did you see that sleepy?

Oh to have been a fly on the wall of that meeting...

I made the mistake last night of staying up and watching Newsnight and then Ch4 news on catch-up. God knows why but I can't sleep at my normal time. Both Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Emily Maitliss, both of whom I normally love, were so aggressive about the unions - why aren't they opening, why aren't they doing online lessons?? It pissed me right off - I must stop watching these things. Long Bailey was pretty goo d though...