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

And this from The Independent.

Justine Mumsnet on Newsnight now.

Wow... that Independent article is the first journalist who gets it.

Sadly, no one reads the Independent....

Oh great she has criticised state school's lockdown learning offering compared to private.

@CallmeAngelina

And this from The Independent.

Great article

@CallmeAngelina

And this from The Independent.

Great article. Wish people could see It like that.

@CallmeAngelina

And this from The Independent.

I wanted to cry reading that. It’s exactly right.

Is the tide turning, the facts at last being heard?

Is the tide turning, the facts at last being heard?

A food tech teacher told me she'd made dough with a class once and had overheard some girls discussing how great it was for getting the dirt out from under their nails. That independent article is good, the reporter has actually realised there are grown ups in schools. Still no result from the COVID test I did last Tuesday :P

Is she one of us? (I read The Independent because I'm generally fed up of The Guardian.)

What did Justine have to say?

@SaltyAndFresh

What did Justine have to say?

If the lack of moderation on here at the time is anything to go by I can guess.

This twitter thread is accurate

mobile.twitter.com/davowillz/status/1297807324736901121

My favourite moment was watching a y4 child pick up a small piece of paper by blocking one nostril up with his finger then sniffing up the paper and then blowing it out again when he got it where he wanted it .

Accurate.

[quote TaxTheRatFarms]This twitter thread is accurate

mobile.twitter.com/davowillz/status/1297807324736901121[/quote]
Depressingly accurate.

Fuckweasel, that's true I was potentially exposed to bodily fluids at school on Friday and got a test . My HR department at the council were great yesterday (much more supportive and helpful than my school) and contacted the NHS for me . I had spent Saturday being bounced around the automated calling service.So instead of a slot within 5 day in a city 40 mins drive away, there are currently 2 drive up testing units in my city, or a postal kit, I was tested in my own city yesterday. Waiting for the results now. Having had the test I don't think I would have been able to swab that far down my own throat with a postal kit. The , very nice and apologetic, nurse triggered my gag reflex and I was wretching something terrible.

There have been issues with testing in Scotland over the past few days as demand has gone crazy following the first week of all in every day. Fancy that! Just hoping that I get my result soon despite of this.

The Times today doesn't seem to see the irony of running a piece examining how safe an office might be without proper distancing, masks, clean toilets, and ventilation!
They quote Hancock about the majority of transmission being 'in the home'. So why aren't people terrified to go home then? Because we aren't stupid : we know it didn't originate in the home.

Meanwhile, on the front cover, girls at a school in NI, all in masks and all sitting at single desks : how has NI done this??

@Piggywaspushed I saw that image too but then again the two images on the BBC article about schools returning in Leicester show a masked man helping a young masked boy, and a class of around 6 each sitting separately. I don’t know what to believe anymore!

Meanwhile, on the front cover, girls at a school in NI, all in masks and all sitting at single desks : how has NI done this??

No idea. I suspect it's purely for the cameras.

I don't think so because they are sat at one person desks .

@DrMadelineMaxwell

My favourite moment was watching a y4 child pick up a small piece of paper by blocking one nostril up with his finger then sniffing up the paper and then blowing it out again when he got it where he wanted it .

That's a rare and special talent.

They can't have afforded to buy new desks, surely? Maybe they always have single person desks in NI but have removed some for the cameras? Don't we have any NI teachers in the staff room?

We have 200+ exam desks which we store offsite most of the year. But where the other 1400 would sit is anyone's guess.