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

Yep we’ve got just the cough, fever or loss of sense of smell too. Crazy

There have been some kinder comments on the "wish i wasn't a teacher" thread today.
People already working get so angry about teachers having concerns - they don't get angry at the thousands still wfh and doing so for the foreseeable - it's strange.
I'm angry with myself for teaching without a mask since I've been back - I wear in the corridors and with staff but take off to speak as it's hard to hear me - but I really shouldn't do that.

People already working get so angry about teachers having concerns - they don't get angry at the thousands still wfh and doing so for the foreseeable - it's strange.

Very strange. Also why the need to keep repeating how thing used to be in their jobs? I worked without XYZ. I sympathise, but that's not the case now. We know more about the virus, so things have changed and adapted.

One of my dc was selected for the swab test survey which duly arrived in the post yesterday. Before you do this test you have to book a courier to pick it up as it's time critical. Fair enough. Book it via the website as this is best they say, only I can't get on to it at all. This is the Department of Health and IpsosMori. Is there nothing this government can do smoothly. Never mind all this world beating tosh they keep coming out with.

Then there are threads like this

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4007772-who-is-looking-at-increased-wfh-long-term

Where people say there’s no point in going back to work anyway as they aren’t allowed meetings of more than two people. And doctors surgeries where admin are still WFH because doctors aren’t doing any f2f appointments!

We are being thrown under a bus here.

Was just coming on to say exactly that, Appuskidu.
I wonder how many posters on that thread have been having a pop at teachers for wfh during Lockdown and for having reservations about going back to our places of work.

A poster on the ‘biased imagery’ thread. Had just posted this link:

metro.co.uk/2020/08/27/boris-johnson-staged-school-visit-social-distancing-13188600/

Wonder how many other media outlets will run that story?

That story is what prompted my latest thread, mother! www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4007867-The-government-is-trying-to-make-you-think-schools-will-be-socially-distanced

The poll is on a knife edge though! Loads of people seem to be happy with the government lying because they can figure stuff out for themselves

The Tory bot telling me I'm starting too many threads has made me want to start even more. If the government can run a propaganda campaign, they can put up with an anti-propaganda one.

@noblegiraffe

The Tory bot telling me I'm starting too many threads has made me want to start even more. If the government can run a propaganda campaign, they can put up with an anti-propaganda one.

Too bloody right.

I hadn’t seen your thread @noblegiraffe. I’m on the ‘bias’ thread so that’s why I saw the article. Will have to venture out the Staffroom to support you.

So our head has now said staff can wear masks 'if they want'. This whole thing annoys me : the government pushed the decision on to heads, who are now pushing the decision on to individual children and staff. FFS.

@Piggywaspushed

So our head has now said staff can wear masks 'if they want'. This whole thing annoys me : the government pushed the decision on to heads, who are now pushing the decision on to individual children and staff. FFS.

This annoys me too. Lucky ours said yes but all it will take is s few parents moaning then it could change.

Which thread was it on that you were told you started too many treads? It's the same posters always do that. they tired to chase clmibdad off MN. Think he just ncd!

Have they called you he or she yet, to try to imply you are some sort of invading man attempting to demean us all?

My exes daughter was so ill last night. 111 advised her to go to the walk in/a and e.

They think it is Covid and that her first test wasn't done properly. They have done another one. She said it was really uncomfortable the second time with the nurse doing it.

This is the problem with self adminstered tests.

@Appuskidu

Then there are threads like this

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4007772-who-is-looking-at-increased-wfh-long-term

Where people say there’s no point in going back to work anyway as they aren’t allowed meetings of more than two people. And doctors surgeries where admin are still WFH because doctors aren’t doing any f2f appointments!

We are being thrown under a bus here.

I'm torn about other people working from home. On one hand I think it is unfair we get to take extra risks. On the other hand the best chance of us not getting ill is for it to not be at school in the first place, and working from home should help that. Plus I think it is ridiculous to be encouraging people back to offices the same week we reopen schools, shouldn't we do one at a time? Can check effect on covid spread and also problems with transport... Maybe it's to hide spread in schools, can blame it on offices?

Sorry if this one has been linked before, but it's the most sense in one place that I've read about school 'reopening'.

fullfact.org/education/covid-19-schools/

This one, piggy www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4003413-Parents-are-the-blockage-at-schools-re-opening-not-teaching-unions?msgid=99505367#99505367

My OH is technically a key worker because he works in finance, and they were determined to keep their office open. That lasted 2 weeks before it became apparent that, actually, you can trade on the financial markets from home. The office is only open for an hour a day for the post, and there is no plan to return at least until the new year.

Flagsfiend

But they did the same a few weeks ago.

Their was a whole kerfuffle about 'having reached the limits of what we can safely open, schools are our priority'.

Then a week later more shops and businesses were allowed to open.

@Appuskidu

Then there are threads like this

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4007772-who-is-looking-at-increased-wfh-long-term

Where people say there’s no point in going back to work anyway as they aren’t allowed meetings of more than two people. And doctors surgeries where admin are still WFH because doctors aren’t doing any f2f appointments!

We are being thrown under a bus here.

My personal favourite was the poster that spent god know how much time TBing. Then posted a thread about how she was upset about having to go back into work part time as she had been sat in her Bf's house 'looking after' his kids.

Made her even more of a joke.

@Piggywaspushed

So our head has now said staff can wear masks 'if they want'. This whole thing annoys me : the government pushed the decision on to heads, who are now pushing the decision on to individual children and staff. FFS.

Our local director of public health has said all pupils and teachers in secondary, further and higher education to wear masks in communal areas now, so the guidance we received yesterday from our MAT is now irrelevant.

That fullfact study is fair, @ohthegoats, thanks. Note mention of the school in Jerusalem where they stopped wearing masks (in classrooms as well as communal areas, I assume!) because of the heat wave and ended up with a bit outbreak.

Have asked on the Daily Numbers thread what the age range of the widely publicised study of serious illness in children was, can't find it anywhere. It says that 10-14 year olds were more likely to be seriously ill (also BAME, those with ore-existing conditions) so am guessing the upper age limit was 14!

So that leaves years 11-13 and increasingly year 10 unaccounted for .....

Isn’t that every single classroom with 30 children in?

@Appuskidu

Isn’t that every single classroom with 30 children in?

Yep!