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

[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, especially if yo

Our local top secret testing facility offered to come in and do swabbing. We appear to have declined.

@Piggywaspushed stop teasing us...

Deep clean my arse. We've had 2 deep cleans since lockdown, my windows are absolutely filthy- covered in old blue tack marks. Must be covered in covid

I think our head would welcome a top secret testing facility with open arms. He doesn't manage to keep up to date with all the latest guidelines at all times, but he's doing his best and is genuinely worried about spread within the school community. Of course, everything he tries to do in school is futile as they all then get on buses with all other yeargroups and we can't enforce mask wearing one the buses have left our bus bay, although we do get on the buses to check they're wearing masks and seatbelts before the bus is allowed to leave.

Sorry august!

Just read of a large fairly local primary Sen school that's fully closed for two weeks, a mix of staff and pupils testing positive.

@ohthegoats

Deep clean my arse. We've had 2 deep cleans since lockdown, my windows are absolutely filthy- covered in old blue tack marks. Must be covered in covid

😂 Again, it's the impact of language. If you were going to actually deep clean a classroom, it would take one person an entire day to do it. Every table, chair, window, wall, display, piece of furniture, cable, light fitting, carpet, etc. would need to be properly scrubbed. 'Deep clean' is just another term being used to give people a sense of comfort and security.

Um I hesitate to mention this, but I traveled through some HSE doc at one point to check what was involved in a "deep clean":

A deep clean means everything that's normally cleaned is cleaned again:

"Any adequate cleaning regime should involve deep and periodic cleaning.

Deep cleaning is a thorough clean of all frequently touched surfaces at least once a day."

That's all. As opposed to just cleaning touch points or something.
HTH

Cross posted with @Iamnotthe1 but yes, that.

*trawled not traveled

(Gosh, levity has broken out on Daily Numbers thread!)

The ‘deep cleans’ I have seen in the past in schools have been in response to something like Noro. So 4 vans with 12 industrial cleaning specialists in for 2 days while school closed down.
Not the caretaker swiping the bannisters with a reusable cloth at lunchtime.

I did a stupid. I engaged with notevenat20 I know it was wrong.

Well, you’ll have made his/her night, MrsH. They are the equivalent of the gobshite at the back of the class who goes ooooooOOOOO! when you snap.
I wonder if those kids grow up to be Internet Trolls? I suspect they do.

Just finished working for the day. Whoever said I was doing too much was right. I'm not doing anything till Monday now

We had a "deep clean" back in March when school was closed after a child's relative tested positive. Ha! The same old cleaners, just with some Flash wipes. They started at 4pm on Tuesday and finished at 6pm, then did 3pm to 5pm the nest day. Back breaking.

TheHoneyBadger do we need to stage an intervention and take your laptop away on your days off next week?

saucery I know. I'm ashamed of myself. But it's a pillock and I couldn't help it.

I was surprised by levity too august! If it continues there may well be an intervention.

Will need to go and reread thread but totally frustrated RN.

Dropped DP off at station as travelling for work. Uni town. Rammed inside and out of students travelling home / going back to uni without masks.
I get that the prospect of being locked in halls is scary and I have so much sympathy but the danger of what those hundreds of students could be carrying is immense and terrifying. So many cars crammed full of family members picking up students as well. It’s like all common sense has evaporated.

Someone made a good point on FB : if the gov says no matter what schools and workplaces won't close there is no motivation to behave. It's a 'it really doesn't matter what we do' mentality.

@Saucery

Well, you’ll have made his/her night, MrsH. They are the equivalent of the gobshite at the back of the class who goes ooooooOOOOO! when you snap. I wonder if those kids grow up to be Internet Trolls? I suspect they do.

Grow up to be internet trolls? No growing up involved!

It went quiet after bragging about a friend cheating on coursework.

skwawkbox.org/2020/10/10/breaking-proof-govt-has-told-track-and-trace-agents-not-to-trace-contacts-of-school-staff-or-pupils-or-pass-details-to-local-health-teams/?fbclid=IwAR2SJwu7zm99oF-Kuv7EcTXC1EjoFmHesEYTRdNiAYg4bs_dTTvIljXvES8

Is this true?

Well a member of staff is SI as she was I believe contact traced. Unless the person contacted her directly.

Saw this...

That's different, though. We'd be contact traced if someone we went to the gym with got it.

If we get it, it suggests no contact tracing occurs.

I am trying to make that make sense...