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

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Hello all! Often read but not posted before - am a HLTA in a primary SEND base. Just have a query about attendance figures - have seen people using percentage attendance figures to support low case numbers in schools - yet from what I have seen Covid related absences don’t count anyway? My son has 100% attendance on his record despite a day off when he needed testing (was on a Friday and luckily had the negative result by the Monday) and a day off when his class were sent home due to a positive in his class (he was allowed back the next day as deemed not a close contact - that’s a whole different rant!). His register is marked as ‘not required’ for those days so he is classed as full attendance. Surely that is another example of the true picture of prevalence being hidden?! Is it the same in your schools? Wishing you all a lovely week - last one before half term for me!

MrsHamlet, dh and I went to see him speaking at Stoke-on-Trent (an hour and a bit from home) during my NQT year, so 5 years ago. On a school night! It was totally worth the chaos which was the next day at school .

Good point Sonya! Ds's absence when I was waiting for a test hasn't been recorded either. That means the attendance figure isn't to do with actual covid illness or suspected cases as that is already out of the picture. It's more an indicator of parental confidence then maybe?

SonyaCisco That’s a really good point. Ds2 (in primary) had symptoms so we were all self isolating. Ds1 (secondary) missed 3 days while we were waiting for a test/results. He still has 100% attendance. I would assume it’s the same for ds2 but I can see only see ds1’s attendance online

I had (naively?) thought that was for the kids’ benefit, but you’re right that the attendance figures as shown on the register won’t always reflect the real prevalence.

Christ @noblegiraffe.

That's becoming a nasty thread.

I'm so glad you saw your mum Jenny. Don't let the fuckers (at work) get you down.

Not so sure I’m ready die this whole going back to work thing now it comes to it.

Noble's thread proves exactly why we couldn't set up a schools data thread, as ahs been suggested.

What is interesting is all the sheing being used, which is exactly what they did to climbdad (except they used he!).

We ahve to imagine a thread as a room. referring to someone as 'she' when 'she' is in the room is what my mother does!! (generally about my trans sister...)

First day of half term here. Very very glad.

@SonyaCisco you're correct - any students having to isolate or wait for a test get an X code which doesn't count towards their attendance or ours. So our school is currently averaging 93% attendance daily but if you took all the X codes into consideration it would be more like 85%!

Saw this on the BBC news website and thought of you guys x

12:35
BREAKING
GCSE and A-level exams in England will happen later in summer
Most A-level and GCSE exams in England will be delayed by three weeks next year due to the pandemic, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has confirmed.

The exams will go ahead but they will be delayed, he said.

So how does that work for getting them marked by examiners and then results day?
There are now more people in hospital with Covid than in March (according the BBC news). This is not the best decision. This is really going to backfire. And it’ll be our fault when it does.

God knows. I usually mark from early June until mid July. I'm not giving up my whole summer to it

Apparently apart from English and Maths which they will do before half term.

Is maths now the ONLY subject where nothing has been removed/modified and now is earlier.... 🙄

And exam results only move by a week for a level and not at all for gcse. Sigh.
Nothing has come out of English language except the requirement to record the speaking. Which takes no more time than just doing it.

FFS what a shit show all round. Again.

There is a poster in Noble’s thread that I’d quite like to throw something at. God people are really stupid in places.

@HerdyGerdy

There is a poster in Noble’s thread that I’d quite like to throw something at. God people are really stupid in places.

Me too-there are some really nasty things being spewed out of one person’s mouth. I suspect they are one of the usual TB under a new alias.

Anyone else seeing their precious gained time slipping away, or is everyone else much less selfish than me...?

@GravityFalls

Anyone else seeing their precious gained time slipping away, or is everyone else much less selfish than me...?

Nope. Leached away in cover, additional mandatory training that was useless and a million other tiny things.

Phew, everyone's agreed to be friends on the Numbers threads, even to allow some posts about schools!

Us4Me really hate me....I went off to teach and missed what they said but it must have been v complimentary for MNHQ to come on and tell people off!

They really don't want to discuss infection rates in schools, do they?

I think they said that they hoped you weren't really a teacher because of the disdain you show for children!
There have been many posts in your defence (from a range of posters).

Whereas what they really dislike is my disdain for them

3 weeks extra isn't much is it? My Y13s could really do with it though. Have they mentioned ditching the Large Dataset? That could easily go from the syllabus.

I have only just come in august. I must say the original idea of excluding schools data from the data thread was outrageous but telling...

Just seen the 3 weeks thing. Private schools will NOT be happy!