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

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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

It was if you were on a high steroid combo preventer and long acting reliever.

I thought they'd discovered that actually asthmatics aren't at any higher risk? It's the obesity and heart disease that are the real risk factors.

@WhenSheWasBad

We will teach them? Eg if Y8 aren’t in school then when I am timetabled to teach Y8 I’ll teach them via Teams from a classroom in school

I was more meaning, if 25 kids are in school being taught normally. Who will deliver the teams lesson to the 5 kids at home shielding?
I can’t do two things at once.

No yes - I was just saying I don’t think we’ll be teaching both simultaneously only if the whole class is off. If just a few I suspect we’ll be asked to set work for them via our homework platform.

Can someone download and read the original report? I keep getting errors
twitter.com/ShamezLadhani/status/1297654280866988034?s=19

Theryre still at a slightly higher risk of death but not as much as other categories eg diabetes which surprised them. But it's because the disease was found to be more of a vascular inflammatory disease, causing organ damage etc.

Asthmatics are still at risk of an asthmatic exacerbation even if it doesn't kill them and potentially a deterioration of their asthma needing higher drugs as their lungs overreact with inflammation anyway, though for some it's been no different to a normal cough. I suppose you can argue that anyone is at a surprise risk of a bad reaction.

I heard on woman's hour that women in perimenopause or post menopause are at greater risk of long Covid as its thought oestrogen is protective.

Oral steroids that some asthmatics take put them at greater risk.

It's a tricky one as when I last looked at the data, there was still a slightly greater risk if you're asthmatic. However, taking your medication regularly could play a factor? We don't know how many fare badly compared to compliance with meds etc. (Speaking as an asthmatic who sometimes forgets in the summer!)

@MrsHamlet

Nope. We're all over the place with no movement time. But SLT will be "out and about" so that's reassuring. Not.

🤣🤣🤣 same here. I sometimes think we teach at the same school 😂

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/911267/School_Outbreaks_Analysis.pdf

The heart disease thing is particularly interested because people with most heart diseases have never been shielded.

interesting..

I had the impression asthma = vulnerable but it had to be really severe to be classed as ecv and needing to shield.

I just take preventative twice daily and blue inhaler as needed.

I ticked a box that said I was in ‘a category that was previously classed as cv or ecv’. Hope I haven’t got that wrong

My GP said it's the Montelukast i'm on for asthma that's the problem but he was more worried about my autoimmune diseases with regard to covid. Those, the asthma and my current perimenopausal state do not fill me with confidence. He wrote a letter stating I should work from home or have a robust risk assessment but the school say their one size fits all trust RA is fine and I can go off unpaid if necessary. Which was helpful.

My plan is to send every single child who coughs out and to basically cross my fingers and wish, that's all that is left, really!

@Piggywaspushed

The heart disease thing is particularly interested because people with most heart diseases have never been shielded.

It was only people who were pregnant and had significant heart disease. No mention of non pregnant heart disease or non heart diseased pregnancy. Must be something dangerous about the combination of the two.

There is now a debate about photocopier access before the start of term. Some subjects are dishing out work booklets only - just in case of teacher/pupil sickness and/or school closure. Alas, our photocopier person is term time only.

I now have three days to get my work booklet sorted and submitted for printing - yikes!

So now Jenny Harries has basically made up some psychology:

twitter.com/iandonald_psych/status/1297823636460642310

Yes honey because being pregnant with heart disease is always a risk.

Definitely ,all GPs everywhere thought heart disease would be a shielded condition.

Rumour is it got removed only because there were basically too many young, working age people with various heart conditions.

My other promise to myself is not to go in if I feel the slightest bit ill. I've only had 1 day off in 3 years, and that was for my daughters MRI scan. Normally we all drag ourselves in because the head never gets cover, we don't have class TA's and so instead she splits your class across the other two in the yeargroup and the other two teachers get an extra 15 kids each. Nobody wants to be that person. But this year it's got to be self first and she can't do that now!

That bloody woman is vile! Do I come across as having shitty classroom management and no knowledge of teenagers? Yuk

Which one?! There are a lot of them about

She has got worse.

I’ve reported the post. We’ll see if it is taken down.

@MrsHamlet Lifeafter50

50. She’s just managed a personal and professional attack that actually offended me enough to report it not that they’ll delete it.

It’s been deleted.

She's poisonous. I bet she'd never dare to be so rude in real life.

I can’t believe she’s a teacher with her level of condemnation she has seemingly for all. She must live a very miserable life.