The Fifteenth Republic - A Level and GCSE Results storm coming!

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ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2020/08/a-level-results-2020-how-have-grades-been-calculated/

I'm agog at the results fiasco. I feel so strongly for pupils and staff. to you all. I've read of some being downgraded from B to U

I've just seen this regarding masks and found it both interesting and blood boiling:

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/08/how-to-measure-risk-airborne-coronavirus-your-office-classroom-bus-ride-cvd/

@BlanketyBlankAgain

It may not have had a noticeable impact in your setting but in the school used as a example by FFT the impact has been huge. A reduction of nearly 7% at the top grade could easily be 20 students at GCSE and it appears that the only reason that school got any U grades at A level was because of prior attainment. Again, that may have only been one person at A level but at GCSE, 2.3% could easily be another 7 students who 'fail'.

I can only imagine that for schools with generally average prior attainment it makes little difference but for the places with low or high, it looks to be significant. Equally, those places that normally report higher levels of progress from lower starting points look to have been screwed over.

@NeurotrashWarrior that is scary!

Was there not supposed to have been updated guidance on the 11th..that was then pushed to end of the week and is still not out? Or have I got mixed up in all the updates?

This France trip... can I have a window seat please?

I'm up for France. I could do with some pain, vin, et fromage. And those really juicy fruit juices.

And a really decent creme caramel in those little glass pots. And some Orangina with sugar not sweeteners. Mmmmmm.

A croque madame in a café on the beach...

School start delayed by two weeks as a result of teacher quarantine.

Could you imagine the U4T outrage?

Oh shit, sorry, wrong thread, that was for the Things In Books That Annoy You

Could you bring me back some Chipsters please? They come in a red box about A5 size. And shed loads of wine obviously.

I have promised myself not to look at laptop till Monday which is when slt are formally back in and the union is saying we should be emailing if we are pregnant or have conditions that make us clinically vulnerable.

There’s also an email pro forma under equality impact to send if being a parent is going to make life difficult because of lack of availability of usual childcare or school creating staggered starts and ends. I think some on here were effected by that?

Still shitting myself about asking for a risk assessment

Nothing against these businesses but how does this fit with Chris’s ‘we are at the limit of what can be open’ statement? They’ve just completely ignored him.

Of course they did. The Government has practically ignored the scientific community and advice the whole way through. It isn't convenient. They even blamed them when it started going tits up.

I think it’s pretty deliberate. The biggest rise in cases is among the young, relatively low risk and they’re likely happy with getting lots of them infected as part of their much denied herd immunity plan.

Now soft play is open despite the evidence on levels of virus load in the under 5s 🤦‍♀️ Think it’s only night clubs that remain closed.

Marina Hyde (love her) on Gavin Williamson

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/14/welcome-to-gavin-williamsons-disasterclass-where-incompetence-is-core-curriculum

at that National Geographic website.

My school is in a lockdown area. It’s still going to open in Sept. Shit, even with everyone in decent masks I’m going to get it in a few hours.

That national geographic website makes 2 hour lessons seem like a really bad idea.

I’m a bit confused by the National Geographic modelling as it seems to care about how much space each person has in the room, but not how many people there are in the room.

If you’re in a room with 100 people it’s more likely one of them has it than if you’re in a room with 30 people? And if none of the people have it, the chance of getting it stays zero regardless of how many hours you’re in there so number of people seems important.

I wonder if it’s escaped their notice that all of these a level students have recently acquired the right to vote?

*@skeptile Would I present for testing? At the moment, no, because:

• The test is unpleasant.
• If it's positive, you then have to stay in.
• Sooner or later, the result becomes useless.

The only thing that will persuade me to present for testing is an incentive of SUBSTANTIAL freedom including being allowed to play netball, sing in church, and not wear a face nappy.*

Just saw this on a thread....It's this that worries me, that there are people out there thinking like this, and then sending their children in to us.

@twinkletoesimnot

I wouldn't be surprised. I think we'll get a lot of:
"Oh but the cough isn't actually persistent/new,"
"I've just got a blocked nose that's why I can't smell,"
etc.

I'm fully expecting that on the first day back I'll be told by my incoming class that half of them have just got back from Spain, France, etc.

That also @Iamnotthe1

While we are at it - can someone explain how I get the quotation marks when posting a copied post please ?

Thanks @NeurotrashWarrior,,the National Geographic calculator is fascinating: however as others have said, it needs a whole lot more explanation doesn't it?

Eg how do you decide how "effective" your mask, or one worn by someone else, is?

In the "classroom lecture" graph it doesn't state whether it's showing for risk to listeners/students or the risk to the speaker/teacher at the front.

One thing it made me think about that I don't think has been said explicitly anywhere: it's safest when everyone remains still, in seats.

So when you get to yr Y9 class who've been in the same room for 1 or 2 hrs already, you shouldn't encourage them to get up and walk around or anything similar.