The Tenth Republic - what is the new normal?

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Heads on Twitter going mental!

It's madness. It is the pinnacle of Orwellian.

Omg that's insane! It's not even some minor detail of the guidance - it's a fundamental part!
It's got to be deliberate, surely? I know one is not supposed to attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.... But....

The change in social distancing is also 1m+ so what is the + in schools?

I don't think it'll make any difference to our school now. 3 weeks left of term, + 2 days. The 2 days are already set aside for a really convoluted transfer day to new classes. Based on current numbers in school, I don't think anyone else is really arsed with coming back. By the time we get it sorted with staffing (that's the impossible bit), we'll be at 2 weeks. They're all off on holiday/to stay with relatives and so on.

Utter twats!

Well in the days of screenshots they can't claim they told us so.

Crap, crap, crap. This is not school related but my Amazon account has been hacked by someone in China with a Russian email address. This is just what I need!!!

Can someone post a link to the new guidance issued today (which was screenshot upthread), can't find it?
Thanks

Well I have completed three full mornings this week at School with Year 10 and Year 12. I think attendance is about 50%.

Pointless! It is making the attainment bigger

On the one hand we have threads saying teachers need to go back to school ASAP because the poor vulnerable kids aren’t getting an education and on the other we have threads going ‘I’ve packed in trying to get them to work’ and replies saying ‘they’d only be pissing about till the end of the year now so it’s fine’.

What is it that education is so important when it’s teachers not doing their bit but ‘don’t worry hun’ when it’s parents?

Where’s the sudden interest in the poor vulnerable kids come from? Do they actually mean my child isn’t getting an education.

MrsAwesome oh no! I wouldn't know how to deal with that?! Hope you get it sorted out.

Well, quite noble and also various posters crowing that they can now take term time holidays with impunity because apparently we are so keen to say it doesn't matter if children don't go to school.

I think that also shows up those posters for going on about ‘throwing children under a bus’ if they are then so willing to take term time holidays!

This is how the government will help out the 'poor' (spoiler : they won't)

www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-ps650m-catch-cash-not-targeted-poor

Noble I know, it's stupid.

Probably late to the party but streaming and sets can't happen in sept and for the foreseeable can they.

So I can't see how much extra catch up input will work either.

Primary really will be worth looking at some workbooks; apart from anything, if a class bubble closed, pupils could take them back (?) and carry on working through set pages at home.

I note pictures of families rammed on beaches yesterday ,so it seems a day or two off live learning doesn't do too much harm when it's hot. Just so long as there are no teachers there, sipping gin in their garden, going to an air conditioned supermarket, walking their dog...

Piggywaspushed

Its almost as if there is a different set of rules for teachers. :)

From another thread:

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/06/24/schools-scrap-social-distancing-september/

To save you clicking on the torygraph:

Primary whole class bubbles.

Secondary whole year group bubbles

What is a whole year group bubble?

A year group bubble could be 2-300 children
Why don't they just call it a school bubble and be done with it

We have whole year group bubbles at home. But there’s a cap on class sizes and crucially no COVId cases because the lockdown and tracking eliminated it.

I’m sure someone more mathematically minded than me can correct me if I’m wrong but surely the larger the bubble the more school children are likely to miss next year. The more children you have the more likely it is there’ll be a child in the bubble picking up an infection outside of school and causing the bubble to self-isolate for 2 weeks.

I’m not sure all the MNers crowing about how schools need to go back because people need to get back to work have really thought about the reality of what this is going to mean.

Not remotely rafals : they will complain about mini lockdowns ,too, as people are atm in Germany.

mistress : 420 in my school...