The Twenty Fourth Republic - conditions not great and are teachers becoming modern day lepers?

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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.

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-SWOT - school workers opposing teacherbashers
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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 yo

But no@Piggywaspushed, you're right.

BBC reporting that new restrictions and the new general traffic light system to be announced on Monday. I wonder if there is the slightest hope that they might actually start using the schools tiers too, in NW etc?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54457377

I suspect not, because it'll look like the first step towards closure. Ironically, it would actually be the first step towards keeping schools open!

@Piggywaspushed yup, none of it is happening. It's like a newly promoted keen young SLT proudly presenting their great new idea on PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets to show they can tick the boxes and the rest of us saying 'yeah right'...

You know that won't happen august because it would be hijacked.

I completely fail to understand why data and facts can't be interrogated and examined for bias and why absence of data can't be foregrounded without that being called 'opinion'.

Education debate instantly reveals event the most factual people's instinctive emotional bias. Some of the data machines on that thread have such clear agendas. And they don't seem to ever believe anything is hidden. Hey ho.

I think there might be a way of it happening without it being hijacked.

hmmm

But there is not much data to discuss... which in itself if an interesting thing to discuss. And what there is is instantly minimised.

Yep. Even Sweden admits it dropped a ball on data collection.

I'll put in 37% often hers say that behaviour is much worse than usual. Think they're knackered after 6 weird weeks.

Boris Johnson to impose tougher lockdown measures on north next week

DM app lead story.

I just wonder if they will go to tier 2 for secondary schools in the north while everyone is distracted by the pub closing issue?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8816653/Boris-Johnson-IGNORE-critics-plunge-10-million-northerners-tough-Tier-Three-lockdown.html

Agree behaviour will get worse towards half term. Tired kids, knackered teachers, Covid stress...bad combo

Observation tomorrow. Whoopee fucking joy.

Not sure I'd believe anything in that DM story (although it is credible, in general terms):

The source they quote? The Sun!

They claim local council leaders will oppose tighter measures.... er they've been begging for them, haven't they?!

Local leaders are opposing restrictions that don't help/make sense and ones where insufficient financial support is given alongside. They are also negotiating for greater local management of the situation ( and the funds to do it).

Our county have officially ruled out the 2 week half term circuit break. They say that because transmission is mostly within youths not following the rules, that they are safer in schools where the restrictions are being applied than out doing their own thing if schools shut.

Depressing,
A second parent of a child o teach is now isolating due to having covid. I'm expecting a child to test positive with it soon. The health chap Gething has said most schools don't have cases, but out of every school in the 5 mile radius, inc primaries, only 5 don't have a year group out.

that they are safer in schools where the restrictions are being applied

I get the sense of that, except the restrictions aren’t being applied in schools. No rule of 6, no masks, no social distancing. How can it be safer?

Not a flipping clue....

I'm sure I heard on radio 4 as I was coming round at 6 that closing schools meant vulnerable people died in March ... that can't be right.

Radio 4 has been giving airtime to the Barrington bunch and various people with agendas. Honestly don't know what the Beeb is playing at.

The other thing that is not at all true and keeps getting trotted out is that the suicide rate went up : it didn't ; it fell.

I do think it is true that if we had a circuit break kids would see it as a holiday and gather in groups in homes, parks and so on. What I don't understand is why people can't see hat a rota system also mitigates against this 'holiday' mentality.

Gething's stats are presumably disingenuous. There will be swathes of rural Wales with no cases. but this does not mean in Rhondda, for example, that nearly every school isn't affected.

Just heard on R4 news - schools to stay open under all circumstances despite 'bleak' situation re hospitalisations. I feel so down.

@SaltyAndFresh

Just heard on R4 news - schools to stay open under all circumstances despite 'bleak' situation re hospitalisations. I feel so down.

I feel the same.

And I've just heard that the LA aren't giving us flu jabs this year. I feel so valued.

All circumstances barring staff absence, presumably. It will reach that point, I’m sure.

I agree with closing hospitality venues, but also with localised support for those businesses. The immediate priority is shutting down the opportunities for the virus to travel. A shame for the businesses that have followed all the rules, but so many haven’t, nor their customers.

So the tier 1, 2, 3 thing I posted yesterday was a lie then??

Where the jeff are the unions!?

There have been tiny numbers of outbreaks in hospitality settings. They really have become the fall guys.

I am annoyed already today because a clutch of our students just will not follow the one way system and there is no SLT presence at all on the entrances. W have many many ways in so they probably cba.

Our school is very overcrowded. It needed a one way anyway.

Still no sign of a flue jab for DH either from GP or his school, who presumably have now been told there are no supplies for their deal with Boots.