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

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I actually can't take much more of this shit.
Wondering if someone can clarify wtf is now going on as having a 'discussion' on Facebook.

If a kid has to isolate as they have been sitting near someone who has been tested positive, do their siblings in other year groups and their family also have to isolate?
Thanks

heck with all schools going back I expect it will get much worse.

Agreed. There is already a poster complaining that she’s just found out that her year 4 child won’t get to play with anyone from another class at playtime!!

@pooiepooie25

I actually can't take much more of this shit. Wondering if someone can clarify wtf is now going on as having a 'discussion' on Facebook.

If a kid has to isolate as they have been sitting near someone who has been tested positive, do their siblings in other year groups and their family also have to isolate?
Thanks

No, like with everyone else in society, it's only the person who has had contact with the positive case who needs to isolate. However, if they then show symptoms and get a positive result, their family would then need to isolate too.

Interesting that on the "shocked about last-minute guidance thread" a number of parents are finally twigging what a shit-show this is all going to be.
As if we haven't been telling them so all summer!

@Appuskidu

heck with all schools going back I expect it will get much worse.

Agreed. There is already a poster complaining that she’s just found out that her year 4 child won’t get to play with anyone from another class at playtime!!

Which thread is that?

CallmeAngelina

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4008720-isn-t-it-glaringly-obvious-that-the-biggest-risk-with-reopening-schools-is-to-the-parents

@noblegiraffe

I couldn't see it in active?

It was in Active on my app. Can't see it now.

@CallmeAngelina

Interesting that on the "shocked about last-minute guidance thread" a number of parents are finally twigging what a shit-show this is all going to be. As if we haven't been telling them so all summer!

We have been telling them for ages not to blame but to blame the DfE. They are the ones who keep issuing guidance updates late Friday afternoon

@WhenSheWasBad

Coronavirus: Secondary schools to move to rota system if virus cases rise

This is my nightmare. Really not sure how I’m going to find the time to teach the kids 15 in front of me and find time to teach online to the other 15.
Oh fuck.

That is what we are planning - got a head ache already

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WhenSheWasBad

Coronavirus: Secondary schools to move to rota system if virus cases rise

This is my nightmare. Really not sure how I’m going to find the time to teach the kids 15 in front of me and find time to teach online to the other 15.
Oh fuck.

That is what we are planning - got a head ache already

First @MNHQ allow us to nest these quotes otherwise what is the point.

And on topic, it may well be that we end up with morning and afternoon rotas with one being a copy of the other.

But if that were the case it would probably mean losing some lessons.

No, it won’t be am pm rotas, the guidance specifies at least a week off between rota sessions to allow symptoms to develop.

I think it's two weeks?

No, it won’t be am pm rotas, the guidance specifies at least a week off between rota sessions to allow symptoms to develop

I think it’s two weeks in weeks off. Fuck fuck fuck.

There’s no way I can do this. I’m an NQT. Don’t know what I’m doing already. Absolutely no chance I can effectively teach double the lessons.

@Piggywaspushed

A lovely poster starts a thread in support of us and what happens? Pile on.

So many bastards on MN.

I'm trying to treat it as a positive. Every time I feel myself slipping and going to spend my own money, or unpaid time, I think of these people and stop myself.

At my school there’s 6 science teachers, I think I would have planned

Year 7 - taught by teacher A
Year 8 - taught by teacher B (maybe an extra year 10 lesson)
Year 9 - taught by teacher C (maybe an extra year 11 lesson)

Years 10 & 11
Biology - taught by teacher D
Chemistry - taught by teacher E
Physics - taught by teacher F

It’s not ideal and would be a complete shit show in a normal year. But with bubbles and the possibility of rota learning it might be best option

I do wish there was a way of stopping any teacher replying to them to be honest. Just let them chunter away to themselves. I mean I feel I know the type from when my children were in primary school, and you aren't going to change their mind. That would require empathy for a start and the ability to look beyond your own eyelashes.

@Appuskidu

heck with all schools going back I expect it will get much worse.

Agreed. There is already a poster complaining that she’s just found out that her year 4 child won’t get to play with anyone from another class at playtime!!

Crumbs that must be one of the 'I want everything to be back to normal' brigade

@Kidneybingo

I do wish there was a way of stopping any teacher replying to them to be honest. Just let them chunter away to themselves. I mean I feel I know the type from when my children were in primary school, and you aren't going to change their mind. That would require empathy for a start and the ability to look beyond your own eyelashes.

We tried that in the days of the first republic.

That guidance @Appuskidu screenshot(?-ted??) is good though, and hopefully schools would be backed up / prompted perhaps by local health authority advice?

Would be a heck of a lot smoother though if we could just require proof.

I've just been chatting to my line manager who is DHT. If she makes it through next week without losing her shit, I'll be impressed. They'd just got plans agreed and then all change again.

So we are having INSET at school but ..........

we are all logging into Teams from our tutor rooms/classrooms

• I am giggling already

Staff I know, and I know why it can't work. It's just a shame.

@StaffAssociationRepresentative

So we are having INSET at school but ..........

we are all logging into Teams from our tutor rooms/classrooms

• I am giggling already

Us too 😃

[quote FrippEnos]CallmeAngelina

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4008720-isn-t-it-glaringly-obvious-that-the-biggest-risk-with-reopening-schools-is-to-the-parents[/quote]
Ah right, thanks.
Just seen which poster made the remark - she's been bashing us on here for a while now, so not at all surprised.

What’s the tipping point for blended/ rota’ed education? Is that laid out anywhere?