The Sixteenth Republic - waiting on the GCSE results show!

[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

If you come with a stick to beat us with then please do so elsewhere and not in the staffroom

Checking in!

Was amused to be sanitised and made to queue and to keep away from people everywhere I went today.

Although once outside the shops, there was zero social distancing. Covid only appears in shops.

If we didn't laugh, we'd cry!

Oh I liked:

Gavin Williamson’s car broke down so he called the BB.

ABBA will now be known at BCCB

Am I sad to think that each of these are hilarious?

I appreciate the jokes, it's nice to have a brief moment of laughter in such a depressing situation.

Love that Gavin Williamson one

Just checking in on the new thread and after swearing I’d now stay away from AIBU I am intrigued to know what @SaltyAndFresh had written!

Gallows humour I think.

Oh

I’m sure there’ll be a reason that isn’t schools.

Also the BBC have been downgraded to the EEF.

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

Oh

I’m sure there’ll be a reason that isn’t schools.

Of course it's not the fault of the schools. Honestly, how many more times do people idiots need to tell you that it doesn't spread in schools.

@SaltyAndFresh the replies on your thread make me want to quit teaching. We really are hated. They just don't get it.

The really toxic ones are Us4Them.

I remember now, there’s someone on Salt’s thread whose FIL is a doctor and he says kids don’t transmit it, so it can’t be schools. Stupid me.

I’ve written the same post 3x on Salty’s thread stating that DH and I will take unpaid leave for our Plan B. It’s been ignored except by @flumposie. Teachers can not possibly be parents and if we are we must have nannies.

Fuck them all and go off at the first sign of a sore throat.

Disclaimer: I may have had a glass of wine or too 😆

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

Also the BBC have been downgraded to the EEF.

I thought it was DUD!

A boy from DS's school in the ST today. Working class lad, self taught piano aged 9, mixed race, neither parent went to uni. Got a place at Cambridge to study music. CAG A* A A. Achieved BBB. No place. Appalling.

@phlebasconsidered

Anyone-regardless of party- who wants to be a politician is manifestly not fit to be one, it seems to me. Maybe we should just pick them like we do jury service.

Some start off so well but then the power gets to them. I mourn John Smith, he was poised to be great. Other than that, I struggle -Kier Hardy?

I remember crying on the tube journey home from teaching (whilst still at uni-did a bit in a primary school) when I heard John Smith had died. He was great.

[quote flumposie]@SaltyAndFresh the replies on your thread make me want to quit teaching. We really are hated. They just don't get it.[/quote]
Remember way back at the end of March when schools first closed and people had a small realisation of what it meant to teach children. There was a brief, tiny, fleeting window where people seemed to appreciate the effort teachers and school staff put in.

Then poof, it disappeared. Since then the Olympics and sporting events have been cancelled, only to be replaced with a new national sport of blame and bash the teachers. Extra points awarded if you manage to chuck in any of the following: Holidays, workshy, lazy, not setting work, wanting schools closed forever, resign, pay rise, others have been working throughout and won't someone think of the children.

The ded is handling covid in the VTB whilst the DJB investigates claims that the former VTTS are planning to interfere with elections.

Personally if my wine consumption gets any worse I may have to start attending bb meetings.

The decent ones that spring to mind are mostly women. Unfortunately most of the sensible Tories have already quit, leaving largely the mad loons and a cabinet designed to be full of thick, spineless yes men.

People don’t seem to understand that it is not that those of us who are teachers are ignorant of the need for children to be in school to enable people to go out to work. Lots of us are parents too. It’s precisely ne aisé I can see it from both sides that I can see what a balls ache not having appropriate measures in place will cause to both parents and teachers. I’m going to have my own bubble of the entire secondary school as I teach all year groups, added to child 1 in her year group bubble at another school of 380, child 2 in her primary bubble of 90 (they’re putting two year groups on each bubble). My husband is a police officer so no working from home for him. Our usual emergency childcare is grandparents, one of whom has an underlying condition and provide childcare for my nephews.

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

The decent ones that spring to mind are mostly women. Unfortunately most of the sensible Tories have already quit, leaving largely the mad loons and a cabinet designed to be full of thick, spineless yes men.

Ha sounds like the staffing situation of schools turned over to MATs round here.

@Ickabog totally agree. I foolishly thought in March that people would appreciate what teachers did. I'm currently sat making revision booklets for Year 13. Doesn't quite fit the narrative of a lazy teacher doing sod all since March.@motherrunner I've said similar twice now. And I wont be returning to work early with illness still like I usually do.