The Twentieth Republic - all back and its time to bubble bubble ...

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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.

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, especially if you have not used the hand gel. Close the door quietly on your way out and put your mask on.

I would isolate and test her. I'd also tell the school that she had a temp, as our guidelines ONLY test for the three main symptoms, so she'd just be the usual 48 hours in my school.

Yep, I’d get a test too.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54035770
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54000629
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54025708

This is quite a trio of stories on the BBC website front page today. I did think schools and teachers had been let off the hook, but then I saw the last one hidden away.
There’s a definite message. I think it’s Boris is bored of Covid, now will you all stop moaning and get back to work.

That schools report is the gaslighting.

Context of only primaries, only a few kids, low community spread, summer so outside, shielding etc.

Upset stomach report:

www.bbc.com/news/health-53983963

Whynotme40

Increasing evidence that stomach issues are the main symptom in children so I'd get tested, definitely.

I've been back in now 2 days - primary - and it's not really any different except for the handwashing and eating outside. In the classroom, although they all have their own packs, they still have to share whiteboards, colouring pencils. They just can't stay in their own seats. They want to go to the toilet all the time because they have water bottles on their desks and glug at them all the time. SD of adults is non-existent and impossible, can't stay in the so-called teacher space at the front, just isn't enough space and it doesn't work.

@CallmeAngelina

Friend at work timed 54 minutes of yesterday spent in hand-washing (for the kids - out of lesson-time).

We are getting them to use sanitiser on the way out (to play, lunch etc) and wash hands on the way in. Cuts down on hand washing time!

As a matter of interest on that last BBC article, it says they found teachers antibodies at 12.7% prevalence. Does anyone know how that compares to the general population?

We are using sanitizer on the way in and out as well.

LUNCH IS COLD
LUNCH IS OUTSIDE
LUNCH IS STANDING UP
LUNCH IS TOO FAST

Didn’t think lunch would be the main talking point about kids going back tbh.

@noblegiraffe

LUNCH IS COLD LUNCH IS OUTSIDE LUNCH IS STANDING UP LUNCH IS TOO FAST

Didn’t think lunch would be the main talking point about kids going back tbh.

Makes a change from ‘Home you go!’ season, I suppose

Managed a bit of a lie in but had a really vivid dream in which the timetabling aht (we’ve got about ten of them) took credit for running the school, in the presence of the female ht, then played a mildly pornographic and grossly sexist video to us. No one was saying anything and I had to say wtf are you actually doing and had a stand up row with him and then the ht and hod weighed in against him too.

I clearly bear grudges even in my sleep.

The lunch complaints are because it’s an aspect of going back to school they hadn’t anticipated. Parents expected hand sanitiser, one way systems, (faux) bubbles and (faux) social distancing (the last two being down to a willingness to believe the messages being put out by Government and media). They didn’t expect that their children’s comfort would be way down the list of priorities and just another tick on the risk assessment.

Check out the school cleaning thread.

Closing down to clean is pointless, apparently.

And an excuse. Excuse to do what>?

Fuck me.

Didn’t think lunch would be the main talking point about kids going back tbh

They have piss and moan about something.

@noblegiraffe

LUNCH IS COLD LUNCH IS OUTSIDE LUNCH IS STANDING UP LUNCH IS TOO FAST

Didn’t think lunch would be the main talking point about kids going back tbh.

How many of the lunch outside is cold people were also we can use outside spaces to get kids back into school people?

I guess being like Sweden & Denmark is not all that fun.

@WhyNotMe40

As a matter of interest on that last BBC article, it says they found teachers antibodies at 12.7% prevalence. Does anyone know how that compares to the general population?

Current modelling states that around 6% of the population have had Covid-19.

As a school governor I fear many emails about sandwiches coming my way

@Iamnotthe1 see that's what I thought!

So their own survey supposedly demonstrating (concluding) that schools are no more risky in terms of transmission than home is incorrect, as more teachers than the general population have had coronavirus (probably from March)....

Saturday morning....full of cold and now I'm coughing which makes my chest hurt. Lovely.

[quote WhyNotMe40]@Iamnotthe1 see that's what I thought!

So their own survey supposedly demonstrating (concluding) that schools are no more risky in terms of transmission than home is incorrect, as more teachers than the general population have had coronavirus (probably from March)....[/quote]
And that's even with significant school closures.

It's interesting as three weeks ago the argument was that home was more dangerous than school. Now it's the same. I wonder what the conclusions will be in a month.

How representative was the survey. It’s 6-7% across the entire UK, but I think it was 17% in London.

No idea. Maybe someone should chase it up with the actual research group

@ineedaholidaynow

As a school governor I fear many emails about sandwiches coming my way

Parents really need to give schools a break. I think some are pissed off about sandwiches because it means they will need to cook for their DC in the evening but they will dress it up as concern for ‘FSM kids for whom it will be the only hot meal of the day’.

Hang on - people don't cook for their kids in the evening just because they've had school lunch?! Seriously?!