The Eighteenth Republic - More U Turns On The Horizon? - INSET Days and travel problems

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

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.

No DfE muppets allowed

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

That Twitter comment threatening to square up to a HT

Twitter is weird. There are a lot of over-invested middle aged white men ranting about children being muzzled and abused by wearing masks and what about their human rights, yet a look at their twitter feed shows absolutely no previous c oncerns about any non-covid issues that affect children. Just this one. Most bizarre. I’m sure the fact that they’re all torybots is completely unrelated

@Danglingmod

That Twitter comment threatening to square up to a HT

I reported a load of those posts this morning for threatening behaviour, don't seem to have been removed though.

Some students would definitely be fine with masks, for example all post-16 and the majority of year 11 (most students do want to do well in their exams and do know deep down school is important for this). From observing children out and about they don't seem to have issues with masks, I overheard a girl today telling her mum she was putting her mask on to enter a building as she needed to due to her age (she looked about 11 or 12). Lots of younger children were wearing masks too, definitely under 11.

There are a lot of over-invested middle aged white men ranting about children being muzzled and abused by wearing masks and what about their human rights

What they actually mean is 'I have to wear a mask in B&Q and can't go to the football but I know if I kick off about that I'll be laughed out of town so I'm putting my pissed-offness about my situation onto kids because it sounds better'.

DD is going into y11 and has a selection of masks to choose from. Her school have already said they aren't required but can be worn if the students will feel happier wearing them.

I'm not relishing the thought of wearing one, and teach in primary anyway. As they are almost pointless unless everyone is wearing them, I can't see it being required at all.

I will personally feel a bit happier when I finally get DD's y10 GCSE results! Due to an IT cock up on results day her account was locked. No IT help from school when I emailed on the same day (no reply) despite parents on the fb groups saying they'd got help. No answer on the phones on the busy day - expected sort of, and the announcement on the school app said no worries, results were coming through the post.
Except they haven't. Every one of her friends, and every child of my friends have had their results through the post and no letter here for DD. It's a bit disconcerting, especially as lockdown was not kind to her in terms of MH and I hoped she'd get good news re results to help her face going back into y11.

No replies to any emails sent to school since and no answer, again unsurprisingly, on the phone when I call. Looks like we won't be getting her results til I can call them on Tuesday's training day now as the letter must be lost it's so late!

Twitter has gone mask bonkers at the moment.

God that’s awful DrMadeleine, the waiting is bad enough when the results are on time.

Just popping by to say good luck for next week everyone.

I am feeling sick about the whole thing. Tomorrow I will be buying a Euromillions ticket. Will be more useful than the government guidance.

Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks!

Why did I bite, @noblegiraffe?

Who is she, anyway?

It's the ever-lovely askmehowiknow

Oh, of course.
She was a nurse? I am hopeless at remembering these details. Which is odd, when I get so riled at the time.

She said she worked on a covid ward when I called her a pandemic denier.

I was thinking earlier she hadn't been on in a while so was alert when she popped up! Normally I'm useless at spotting namechangers.

Is she the one with the passive aggressive smiley faces?

Don't know about smiley faces but arguing with her is really fucking boring because she never responds to what you've said but will just meander onto a new annoying point that you feel obliged to correct.

I have been called a prat and thick tonight!

Us 4 Them are panicking.

If I see the word 'need' again, I'll thump someone

It was worth getting deleted for telling her to fuck off.

U f T are trolling my union's Facebook page, and taking screen shots of posts. I have never posted on it because of this, I feel barred from a page that is supposed to be for union members. Ridiculous.

I thought it was -I’m rubbish at name-change spotting!

twitter.com/branwenjeffreys/status/1298599489683546112

@Piggywaspushed

I have been called a prat and thick tonight!

Us 4 Them are panicking.

If I see the word 'need' again, I'll thump someone

On my thread a couple of weeks ago, I was called all sorts. A charmer on a local FB news page suggested I was a child abuser for laughing when she hashtagged Save the Children in the context of a discussion on masks. Low.

[quote Piggywaspushed]twitter.com/branwenjeffreys/status/1298599489683546112[/quote]
Is anyone surprised?

Does anyone else feel like we’re being beaten into submission? TWO leading articles on BBC today - one about minimal risk for children and the second about schools ready to welcome pupils back. It really is a propaganda campaign.

I caught up on the Hancock thread and the ‘wish I wasn’t a teacher’ thread and they’re just feeding my anxiety so think I’m going to hide in the Staffroom and quietly weep ☹️

Morning mother. I think the over egging of the schools are safe propaganda is actually waking people up to the fact they’re not.

Spoke to my dad yesterday and he’d seen something where the question was is it safe for teachers and pupils to be back in school and he found it massively obvious that they only talked about children being at low risk, no mention of teachers or adults at home and no attempt to make them do so.

When I’ve talked to him before about risks you could tell he wasn’t convinced but the whitewash propaganda has made him realise.

I personally think the vast majority will send their secondary kids into school but maybe when hearing from them what it’s like and potentially seeing photos and maybe a few infections... maybe it will be parents who put pressure on for safer conditions.

Currently there’s quite possibly a lot of delusion about how schools will be. Maybe their kids experience will wake them up

It IS a propaganda campaign : Branwen Jeffries more or less said so on twitter (whilst submitting to the campaign!)

ITV reports that 75% of parents are definitely sending their children back . This is presented as a good stat! That said, the remaining 25% are mainly unsure rather than flat nos but this is who the gov are working on. Why a sensible tactic is to unleash U4T teacher bashers is beyond me!

Remember that article that said the government were using social media influencers.

This is all propaganda. And probably a distraction from other things like track and trace. I told Dh to stop telling me how woeful that has been yesterday.

I'm going to have to stay away from mn (a bit!) i think to hang onto the last shreds of calmness I have.

Dh runs a small office and their policy is to wfh if anyone feels ill at all in any way. Obviously impossible in a school but the stuff about children having different symptoms has worried me. My school are sticking to the 3 main ones. Also, with non verbal kids it's hard to know if their throat is sore, bar not eating.