The Seventeenth Republic - The Pick Your Grade Show continues as we edge towards INSET days.

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You are most welcome to this school staff support thread to get us through stressful times. It is meant for school staff only – a sort of room of requirement. Baiters, haters, goaders 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 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
Do not give ‘The Every twat for Themselves mob’ the staffroom password as a number of them are operating in an alternative reality.

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 goad us then that is not allowed in the staffroom. Close the door quietly on your way out

Oh look!!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53884401

There's a line U4T can't use any more...

Of course, by the time you get to the end ,it's our fault..

I know this is MN and not real life, but there seems to be an increase in the number of posts where people don’t want to get their child tested or about the disruption of repeatedly taking time off. Is this going to be the next issue?

Sorry, I don't stay up as late as you lot, so can see you already posted the anxiety findings.

I buy The Times. I obviously need to steel myself. What does it say?

Oh God, just seen it.

Hilarious!

It is just 'adults spread it more than young children', which we have already been told.

Let us wilfully ignore the fact that 15 year olds and above are adults, shall we?

The Times kindly sent me an email with that heading on it so I had a notification on my phone about it which woke me up.

Insult to injury...

I think the new thing will be

'My DC is self isolating . Why are there no zoom lessons for my DC to watch/ private catch up sessions?'

Massively contradicts the cdc findings and the Massachusetts study. Not sure what they are basing this children don’t spread it crap on but it’s not the latest and most extensive studies.

Thanks and sorry for the self-pitying post in the middle of the night. Although once I’d posted it I did eventually manage to get back to sleep 🤦‍♀️

They are basing it on the (still not finished!) PHE study. It is , as someone said, beautifully pulled apart on the numbers thread.

No way will I live stream lessons. Just not going to happen. I don’t think my school would allow it actually... thank goodness. We will teach via teams if whole class/year group off from school but not part of a class I don’t think...

Child on BBC news about being back at school.

I feel glad to be back in such a safe environment

It would be bad enough at the best of times but sweaty faced, out of breath from racing across the school and flustered trying to get logged in and access register once you’ve cleaned the desk and attempted to settle the class who’ve been unsupervised for nearly 10 minutes and are climbing the walls from having been in the same room all day?

No school wants parents to see the realities of classroom behaviour and the level of challenge and disruption some students present and their child has to put up with everyday.

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/1530022/positive-coronavirus-cases-at-two-further-dundee-schools-as-kingspark-outbreak-reaches-22/

*Two more schools in Dundee have been linked to confirmed cases of coronavirus amid the outbreak at Kingspark.

Positive tests have now been linked to St Peter and Paul’s School in Dundee and Happy Times out-of school club at Downfield Primary School.

NHS Tayside and Dundee City Council announced that each school has a single positive case in a joint statement released on Sunday night.

Parents have been contacted to advise that their children should self-isolate for 14 days until September 2.

The number of positive tests at Kingspark now stands at 22, including 17 members of staff, two pupils and three community contacts.

The school remains closed and all staff and pupils continue to self-isolate.*

We have to spray antiviral stuff every time we enter or leave a room.

I'm going to have to have a gun sling belt carrying my antiviral.

They're banging on about cleaning fluid on the today programme.

What about air?!

Urgh. I Looked at other boards which was bad enough.

But the constant media gaslighting is so fucking draining!

Imagine watching and realising 30% of your child’s day is wasted on disruption caused by one pupil in their class? Or that your child spends maths perched on the end of a desk because there aren’t enough seats? Or that (my personal experience again) your child’s maths teacher barely speaks English?

Can you imagine the volume of emails and calls to the ht. Can’t see them volunteering for that.

Boris thanks teachers for making classrooms Covid-secure, so it'll be our fault that they're not presumably.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/23/boris-johnson-attempts-to-regain-control-a-levels-chaos?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The Times leading article, after a sideswipe at “pusillanimous or lazy teachers”, says:

The lesson must surely be that rigorous vigilance is needed by the teachers to police their own behaviour and contacts.

So, schools are safe, and if they aren’t it’s all our fault.

If the staff at Kingspark are having to avoid each other as we’ve been advised to do, isn’t it likely that pupils have transmitted the virus to them, considering 17 are infected?

I'm going to have to have a gun sling belt carrying my antiviral

‘I’ve got a pen and a refillable sanitizer bottle on a lanyard and. thought that was organised but I am now off to google ‘gun slinger belt’ to see what I can come up with....a chequered face mask would complete the look!

I think many of us suspected that teachers / teaching staff would be blamed. However, seeing it stated so clearly is still depressing.

No way will I live stream lessons. Just not going to happen. I don’t think my school would allow it actually... thank goodness. We will teach via teams if whole class/year group off from school but not part of a class I don’t think

Who gets to sort out these teams meetings. There’s no slack in the timetable.

Has anyone had any information about marking policy in their school. I have a friend who has been told - pupils had in their books, which are quarantined for 72 hours. Teacher marks them, back into quarantine for 72 hours and then handed back to the kids.
So basically they can’t really mark books.

You can't mark like that for maths/English/science where they have 4/5 lessons a week. They'd never actually have their books.