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

@Piggywaspushed

The Scottish government's response is interesting. They don't completely rule out blended learning and mention funding. Our DfE would be unable to say those two things!!

Now, Patrick Roach : talk to Gav!!

Where the F* is Gav, anyway?!

In case anyone else has a "WTF!" moment when they see this - it appears a newsreader mis spoke, as the written Sky article (and what we know to be likely) contradicts it:
Sky breaking news: Liverpool schools to close
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4048040-Sky-breaking-news-Liverpool-schools-to-close

@Piggywaspushed

But also someone got called out on their own guesswork, who hasn't set foot inside a school for probably over 40 years...

Let alone a UK one.

On a roll. Another case reported by headteacher, so that's 4 this week. We get a lot of Sunday emails this year .

noble says he is in Dom's dungeon.

With his whip , I imagine.

I think the gov needs to examine the fatalism people will feel if they are still told to go to work and school while all leisure and pleasure is shut down. Behaviourally that leads to rebellion.

noble says he is in Dom's dungeon.

With his whip , I imagine.

With our mates Viner and Gupta.

Yes you're right @Piggywaspushed. Very difficult decisions though.

Um we, perhaps of all people on MN, should bear in mind that a certain poster on the Numbers thread has told us she has ASD.

Yes,indeed. That's why I (and you) are staying out of it!

MN went into a tailspin about the Liverpool rumour.

Imagine being a uni student there now . No bars, no cinema, no gyms. You can shop and study. That is all.

The virus can survive much longer on banknotes and surfaces than previously thought, so why is there no quarantine at all on books before marking at my school? My HT is following the letter of the guidance, e.g. 'those aren't symptoms so no need to be off.'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54500673

We've moved from 72 to 48 hours for quarantine of books thankfully. I'm doing most of my marking online though.

Ah Flumposie, I suspect you teach at my daughters' school. 2 out of the 3 are off tomorrow. I am at one of the feeder schools and I think that our, so far, clean bill of health is about to go up in flames. That's if, of course, any of our children show any of the 'approved' symptoms - I've sent 3 home with gastric issues in the last 10 days.

Isn't @Nellodee's personal school graph on Daily Numbers genius, in several ways?

For those who won't have seen it, she's plotted numbers in her area alongside numbers of staff absences in her secondary, which is the largest in that area. - for the last two weeks but she plans to continue.

I'm minded to try it myself.

Only flaw I can see is that not all teachers will live in the same borough/area as the school. Ours certainly don't.

I’ll chip in on this thread about the ID issue. Mine wasn’t looked at. It’s my driving licence, it looks nothing like me so I was a bit worried. I held it out first for my drive in test, but both times it was waved away and not looked at. I’d put it in plastic too, so it wasn’t a case of them having to get too close to look at it. I thought that was strange, as I could have booked the test but anyone could have turned up.

The majority of teachers commute less than half an hour to school so it is a pretty good match, I'd imagine.

Most of my colleagues travel less than 20 minutes to school. There are about ten of us 45 minutes away and one who travels an hour. The closest one crosses the road!

The closest one at my school actually lives on the school site!! They rent the old headteachers house at the bottom of the drive.
Most of our staff travel under half an hour, although some travel closer to an hour.

Ooh... that's a bit too close for my liking!

True, there's a high enough proportion at most schools I guess. We're quite rural so a bit more spread than most I guess.

We have a lot of staff who travel fair distances and live in other districts. So it wouldn’t work for us, unless you were including our non teaching staff who are all very local.

The hand sanitiser thread is giving me the rage,apparently we are all so well paid that we should be buying hand sanitiser for school ourselves. Absolutely bonkers.

I spent roughly 1/15 of my net wage on school stuff last year, including during lockdown.

I do buy my own sanitiser. The stuff at school is rancid.

@winewolfhowls

The hand sanitiser thread is giving me the rage,apparently we are all so well paid that we should be buying hand sanitiser for school ourselves. Absolutely bonkers.

Me too. Talk about changing the point of what the thread is about to have a nice old teacher bash!

@winewolfhowls

The hand sanitiser thread is giving me the rage,apparently we are all so well paid that we should be buying hand sanitiser for school ourselves. Absolutely bonkers.

I can't bear it!!! I've had to seek you out in here just to massively eyeroll. The hand sanitizer thread has veered off in the most ludicrous direction....

Between that one and the other threads demanding that teachers should be answering emails 24 hrs a day, I'm SO done.