The Nineteenth Republic - DfE guidance issued August Bank Holiday Weekend!

[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

@noblegiraffe

Anyone else keep having their eye caught by the teacher sex games thread in active? I keep reminding myself not to click that one! Maths teacher me can’t cope.

With SRE I think you're always damned if you do and damned if you don't. You'll never keep all parents happy there.

I think that particular resource is fairly poor, but can see similar being useful if delivered by a competent SRE teacher with an eye on the wider issues.

Thanks Ineed.

So now it’s “all the time, but only sometimes”. That’s much better.

Wonder if they have sneaked in any other changes

We're two days INSET tomorrow and Wednesday. Then I'm not in until Monday.

I need to get everything ready. I'll need a couple of thermos flasks, one for a coffee and one for spare hot water, as there's no kettle in our little office anymore so I'll be in my little classroom all day. I am not sure how I feel... Tomorrow doesn't seem real somehow.

I have a toddler too, Neurotrash, but he's like his mum and sleeps in until at least 7am. Tomorrow morning will be a shock for him, too!

I'm going down the whole showering when I get in, thing. Mainly because it helps with DH's anxiety.

Noble, I did start to read that one, but it's more tame than it sounds! It's a PSHE game that the OP says is a sex game, presumably because it involves a dice.

@noblegiraffe well my attendance is bad as I'm off waiting for my test results!
My school has been fine, but I know some others with about 1/3 off in some classes.
There is definitely a nasty cold type thing sweeping around and obviously people are more likely to keep them at home than normal (thank goodness).
The area I'm in is not high for Covid at the moment though, compared to others.

@echt

Yay! Thread deleted. I dobbed in the one about the dodgy Facebook teacher who dared to have a life drink after school hours.

I reported that as well. Did they say it was made up?

Soooo much of that didn't ring true. I wonder what the objective actually was.

Just want a little weep at having to send my type 1 11 year old in on Thursday. Can't do it on the normal threads or I'll be eaten alive but am so fed up with the 'healthy people are OK' rhetoric. We're not all healthy, at least not in covid terms. It's like my children is just nothing, that he'd be better off dead as he's getting in the way of everyone else's lives.

Sorry. Feeling sorry for myself and my lovely boy. Better get on resourcing my new prep school scheme of work - feeling amazing about that one. Finally been given the chance to do it the way I want to do it!

@Piggywaspushed

Soooo much of that didn't ring true. I wonder what the objective actually was.

To be fair, I am aware of quite a few teachers who routinely add past students to their accounts. One very straight-laced HOD I've worked with does it but she when challenged on it, made some excuse about 'future contacts' for careers days!

Yeah, agreed, it was more the throwing in of 'he has just had six weeks holiday' that was a giveaway.

If they really do think that enough then they get my rent a research for the day which suggests they are narcissistic sociopaths.

@Enoughnowstop

Just want a little weep at having to send my type 1 11 year old in on Thursday. Can't do it on the normal threads or I'll be eaten alive but am so fed up with the 'healthy people are OK' rhetoric. We're not all healthy, at least not in covid terms. It's like my children is just nothing, that he'd be better off dead as he's getting in the way of everyone else's lives.

Sorry. Feeling sorry for myself and my lovely boy. Better get on resourcing my new prep school scheme of work - feeling amazing about that one. Finally been given the chance to do it the way I want to do it!

Sorry you are feeling like this. Don't apologise for it, though, you're allowed! The unknown is really worrying for a lot of people, particularly if they have a health issue. Sending and .

Ah-have an email from MN about the Facebook pub teacher

Thanks very much for reporting this thread - and apologies for the delay in responding.

The OP's actually been on the site for a number of years, but we've been checking out their posting history and have found a fair few things that don't add up so we're taking this inflammatory thread down while we investigate further.

Enough these are shit times and there are a lot of horrible people around. Hope your boy has a great time. Is he going into Y7?

New: my lack of friendly and approachable tone regarding that batshit antivax letter to heads means that parents will think they are right not to trust the school who will undoubtedly jab their kid first chance.

Enough

Scotland announces biggest uptick in 3 months... read bbc report, Sturgeon concerned, linked to indoor gatherings.. no mention of schools in article. Hmm

Enough

@monkeytennis97

Scotland announces biggest uptick in 3 months... read bbc report, Sturgeon concerned, linked to indoor gatherings.. no mention of schools in article. Hmm

Of course no mention of schools. All schools in the UK are like Hogwarts, don'tchaknow, but instead of Muggle repelling spells, if the virus comes near a UK school it instantly remembers it left the gas on and hurries home.

@Piggywaspushed

Soooo much of that didn't ring true. I wonder what the objective actually was.

Cummings testing the water on how readily people will demonise and blame teachers? Think the she should get a test one is similar.

Clearly I’m joking. Ish

thank you for the sympathy! I am just feeling sorry for myself. Yes, he's going into year 7 and that is worrying in itself because of course, he's now got to manage it alone without teacher input. I can see me having to do mercy dashes to the phone to reassure for the first couple of weeks! He is very good with it but very self-concious. It is very worrying. No one with type 1 under the age of 20 has died (which is a shit enough statistic in itself) but can't help having that 'what if...' at the back of my mind.

Still, got to get on with it, haven't we?

Bless you. I’m feeling sorry for myself with far less reason so I don’t think you’re just feeling sorry for yourself. It’s perfectly rational anxiety.

You might want to get in touch with student services (ours is a few lovely ladies who deal with all the I don’t feel wells whether real or year 7 anxiety. Having a chat with them and making sure they know you’re approachable and want to be involved and explaining his self consciousness etc may help all involved and settle your mind.

Mine’s starting secondary too, Enough, with ASD which brings its own set of worries.

We’d be justifiably nervous of this transition in a normal year so I don’t think we should be told to feel differently this year of all years!

They might also be able to give him the diabetic equivalent of a toilet pass so he can just leave and go to ss if he needs to without having to explain himself. Don’t know if he needs to take insulin or has to eat for blood sugar sometimes? Just thinking a pass would help with the self consciousness

Noble, My son is ASD and he much prefers secondary - he had an awful year 5 and 6 but year 7 was better. He found having a student mentor really useful.
Enough,