The Twenty-first Republic - All back but for how long? Why is Big Gav still in post?

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Results back here all negative, got message at 6am so DD1 was not impressed at been woken up for school this morning 😂. Other one still suffering so had a day at home but will be back tomorrow. An otherwise good but busy day here.

@MsAwesomeDragon thank you for reminding me!!! I always forget those bloody things!
Yep- aqa have turned again. Brilliantly my hod told parents our decision yesterday. Wrong one in my opinion, but I'm a lowly senior examiner mortal, so what do I know.

I’m self isolating as my dd2 has a cough - dd1 has only just started reception and it feels so mean making her stay off for her sisters cough.

We have pupils arriving at school with siblings that are self isolating and in several cases are waiting for a test.

This article contains the current DfE response to "How many schools are closed or partially closed due to Covid currently?"

schoolsweek.co.uk/its-official-dfe-doesnt-know-how-many-schools-have-covid-cases/amp/?fbclid=IwAR1vNAIKV2mabtvlBpiHu1FLKwdKlhrySaHeFDQhyFbOP7QcRzrrk2UNDnI

(Bet you can guess their answer, perhaps using fewer words though!)

Unbelievable! Just when I thought my opinion of the DfE could get no lower. Why am I surprised ?

I was shocked today to hear an acquaintance, who is a caring, sensible mum, saying her son was off school with a temperature, it was obviously a cold, they'd all had colds. Would normally have sent him to school but she knew school would send him home and insist on a test, which you can't get atm . So it's apparently "better" to just keep him off until the temperature goes down then send him back.

Then I realised that there will be otherwise sensible parents up and down the country coming to these conclusions - for understandable reasons of course. But 🤷🏻‍♀️ 🤷🏻‍♀️

Oh and she was telling me this face to face of course, because no one from the household is isolating.....

And another group of people discussing ways of doing Christmas as a six, with not one seemingly considering that we might be in lockdown by then.

I hope I'm wrong and we're not.

Well, if you don’t count them, you don’t have to tell anyone the number!

In non-COVID-related gripes, why oh WHY is there always one student in a class who everything IT-related happens to? They can’t log on, and when they change their password it doesn’t work, the computer “loses” their work all the time, their Word crashes repeatedly, they don’t know how to work emails...argh! And it’s always a gobby one too. How does the IT system know to only work for nice, hard-working students, and to mysteriously lose the work of loud-mouthed whingers?

I swear, I heard “my OneDrive doesn’t have any of my work in!” and my heart utterly plummeted through the floor as I know this is all I’ll hear from this student for the next two years.

@FrippEnos

We have pupils arriving at school with siblings that are self isolating and in several cases are waiting for a test.

Yep! We had that too. Siblings accompanying parents on the school-run. HT sent a strongly-worded email.

(Sorry can you tell I've just got in and want to tell you all my news/ brain dump?!)

Also, Matt Hancock says they're going to revise their testing strategy shortly to prioritise healthcare workers/ priority areas. Which does seem pretty necessary.

However, what is this going to mean for schools???

I don't know, I've been feeling sicker and sicker as the day and news has gone on.

@Augustbreeze

This article contains the current DfE response to "How many schools are closed or partially closed due to Covid currently?"

schoolsweek.co.uk/its-official-dfe-doesnt-know-how-many-schools-have-covid-cases/amp/?fbclid=IwAR1vNAIKV2mabtvlBpiHu1FLKwdKlhrySaHeFDQhyFbOP7QcRzrrk2UNDnI

(Bet you can guess their answer, perhaps using fewer words though!)

I perhaps should have clarified, the article title actually refers to their answer earlier in the summer. Asked about the situation last week they go all mealy mouthed and avoid answering....

One of my year 12 this morning musing on why we can be 15 in class but only 6 in life - "learning objectives must have virus repelling properties, miss"

I was doing nursery pick up for DD the other day and a parent picking up a coughing toddler was explaining that she knew it was just a cold because she'd had it and she tested negative (for a hospital appointment I think), so obviously he couldn't have Covid.

I mean, she's probably right, but them ain't the rulez!

Nursery are too nice and probably won't insist.

The year 11 I sent out for coughing was not back today. Just 'N' on the reg though so don't know if she's getting tested or not.

We have lots off waiting for test results. We're almost but not actually in Birmingham. Our isolation learning goes live tomorrow. Just waiting for a bubble to pop now.

If you fancy voting on whether the govt has done a good job of reopening schools, click here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a4024516-The-government-have-fucked-up-the-re-opening-of-schools

....get in before someone complains and the thread gets moved to the CV section

Good thread. I'd like to know who these teachers are who think it's all great. Do they teach on another planet or something?

We've got kids with the mildest of coughs being taken for tests (thank you, sensible parents) and kids hacking their guts up for hours in class not sent home or kept home. I mean, what the actual??? I don't think half of us will get through to half term with the stress.

I haven't heard a person cough at all.

Oh, noble you are trending . Prepare weapons.

I had a boy in my class cough continuously, and I mean, continuously for the entire lesson. He was the closest student to me. I emailed to get him taken to medical - it didn't look like he was picked up all day. He was a lovely lad, type that wouldn't lie to save his life. His words to me were, "Yeah, miss, it's a lot better today though. Friday I was coughing up a lung, and not one teacher said a word about it all day."

I feel like crying today. I keep reporting kids who are coughing continuously right in front of me (like, 12+ times in 20 mins) and I think SLT are now just, "Her again... don't bother sending anyone." Because it couldn't possibly be that there actually are this many kids coming in with hacking coughs, no, I'm just a demented dementor.

And like you all say, no-one cares.

That's exactly it Nellodee.

The triage people have decided not to follow our actual own policy of sending them home.

Hah, piggy and on cue people are telling me I'm mentally unfit to teach...

@Nellodee, I think everyone's just chancing their arm. Parents reckon they'll send unwell kids in and if school has an issue, they'll send them home. Kid waits until a staff member notices and sends them to First Aid (or wherever). First Aid reckons they'll chance it and try to send them back to class.
Stuff the teachers and other kids > families > wider communities.

AND WE TOLD EVERYONE SO!

Evening all.

I found something interesting tonight.
On my local news website there is a report about a school sending all of year 10 home, and there's a comment from the local council saying that all the (more than 10) schools in the area that had reported positive cases in the last 2 weeks were recieving advice blah blah blah.
The interesting bit is that this is the first school in the 2 weeks that have reported cases in the local news. Oh actually maybe one other but I think it was more than 2 weeks ago.
So they are not making even the local trashy news websites, let alone bigger websites...

Sorry, should have said more than 5 schools. Trying to multi task bedtime!