The Seventh Republic - the debate rages on but for some it is half term!

[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.

If you are fed up with cakes and biscuits there is now a cheeseboard on offer

@phlebasconsidered - good and if there is anything else you can date put it in. Friend also had listed comments she had received from others about how dreadfully she had been spoken to in meetings.

Is there anything already in an email that you can save?

You have improved results - I would slip this into conversation occasionally. You can then record the response.

The union rep can only really help if you have a bank of evidence.

Tell no one else that you are keeping records as there are lots of loose tongues in schools

#solidarity

You have a point about bus pupils. My daughter is a bus pupil and due to 'issues' (poor behaviour) the routes were redone not long after Xmas which meant her bus is always the full double decker now - there had also been issues with pupils claiming not having seats. DD was told if she got on and there wasn't a seat for her to sit in then she was to get off and go to student services. Fortunately that didn't happen and they made their changes.

But we had a real battle with school to get her in for keyworker care. They kept saying the buses were running according to the amended timetable, or they didn't have the budget/wasn't their responsibility to arrange alternative transport, even though my school is under the same LA and transport provision and had managed to sort it.

Turns out the school should have contacted ed transport and made a request, which is what I did myself after going back and forth and speaking in the end to the head of transport!

I wonder how they are going to manage the buses for rural pupils. The number of schools using buses round here is high, they even use them for one estate which is well within walking distance but due to social deprivation there, if they didn't provide free buses to that estate, the pupils likely wouldn't attend. I doubt there will be enough buses available to provide SD travel to school.

has moved on to vague gaslighting about DC on another thread now.

Yet to mention consultant DH : who I would have thought would be mad as hell.

So now the DfE has tweeted to say there are virus tests for under 5s.

Anyone told Jenny ??

Do you all know the bit in Animal Farm where the seven commandments get altered bit by bit and the animals aren't intelligent enough to figure it out for themselves.

This is literally what is going to happen with the 5 tests for school reopening.

I do hope enough people took screenshots...

Agree Piggy

Problem is we can figure out it’s happening but can’t do anything about it.

Chuckling at James O brien calling it a tempting escape to the ' leafy North East' makes a change from the industrial or the poor.

Big Gav is having a slating on Twitter.

Leafy! Yeah in some bits! Barnard Castle is v pretty oh what a nice change to not be referred to as "grim".

Any tech teachers seen the AQA NEA statement?

Pupils will now be allowed to work on it from home.

Twitter is indeed not a kind place for Gav!

Times editorial calling for us to teach first today and presumably put aside madconcerns about public health.

Oh, and teach in.the summer holidays...

Piggywaspushed

Until now I had a fair bit of respect for the times. Now I have none.

As for teaching in the summer, you would think that they would understand the issues arising from it.

I will phone in sick over the summer if the expectation is for us to go in. My head would support us all in doing the same. Already had that conversation.

The. NEU were absolutely clear that it is not legal to ask teachers to work in the summer holidays. They were totally clear on that in our meeting.

Glad my school have sensibly not firmed up plans for return yet! Feel sorry for them as they’ve been trying to plan but not at the same time.

My school was one that was planning to go in on 8th June- obviously that won't now go ahead. Our reopening plans fit in with the no more than a quarter thing, so it's all pushed back a week.

We are trying to organise minibus transport for those who can't get to school another way, but this is going to be tricky with staggered arrival/drop off times- it's very likely we'll have members of teaching staff driving the minibuses for most of the day.

My school was hoping to be open for some yr 10s on the 8th, but no firm plans have been passed on, so no idea what is happening.

They can't do that sansa! That's a viral load issue! Hence bus and taxi drivers dying...

"This is literally what is going to happen with the 5 tests for school reopening."

Does anyone have the original wording for test 4?
I thought it said something about test track and trace being in place
Now it just says something about "testing capacity being in hand"

The fact that so many Secondaries had been planning with an earlier date than Boris announced yesterday should be proof to those blaming teachers and schools for children being at home that this really is all down to the government but I bet they will just ignore that little fact conveniently.

If teachers worked summer and have already worked through Easter they’d be owed more than another 20% of their annual salary.

It’s not about the money though. We have contracts. You could offer me an extra 10k on an average year and I wouldn’t take it unless I was leaving at the end of August.

Can’t imagine the kids wanting to be stuck in school from now till the end of October either.

Beginning to think they should have furloughed all of us and told everyone to watch bbc bitesize and oak academy.

TheHoneyBadger

Could you imagine the uproar if they had Furloughed us :)

And I am sure that they would have found a way to blame us for it.

ChloeDecker

Unfortunately and the other vocal muppets will ignore that and just keep bleating on with their own agenda.

I found a broadcast. It dudnt say track and trace. That was the NEU who - unreasonable bastards- set that as one of their own tests. Bloody government always knew they wouldn't get tracing in time.

Thanks Piggy. Did it say "in place" though, not "in hand"?

Good point.