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

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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

Signing in, evening all

Thanks, all. I've just eaten a very small amount of mashed potato and I'm sipping mint tea. I think I'll be away to bed soon.

I hope you get it sorted Marple. Don't resign till the last minute though. Why should they have it easy?

Thanks @NeurotrashWarrior . Yes someone on another thread (piggy maybe? - altho I tend to attribute anything outré to you 😆) has pointed out the date of the Oct 22 law about provision of online learning being the beginning of half term for many...

Altho we wouldn't be teaching in half term, so...... 🤷🏻‍♀️

Just placemarking. Been a bastard of a weekend so oddly looking forward to work tomorrow.

I’ve signed up too, thank you fuckweasel. Do you know if we get our individual results? I’m curious to know.

Have been lurking for a bit recently. Needed a test on Monday, got negative result late Tuesday night so had to wing it lesson wise on Wed. Dosed up on steds and antibiotics now so finally feeling better.
Last week was crazy. Loads of staff off and kids going hyper as we had so many supply in.
On a plus I've figured out how to record PowerPoints so remote lessons are easier now. If anyone needs any help let me know.
to everyone in need tonight.

@DollyMixtureLulus yes, you get your result. I really hope I get chosen!

Ah yes, that would be handy - hope some of you get picked.

Just dropping in, I seem to be having good week/ bad week at the minute. Last week was bad so here's hoping!

Checking in to new thread...

V anxious about the daily figure being so delayed.

for anyone ill or awaiting a test result or otherwise dreading Monday morning.

Negative test result here which is good
I get why noone wants a lockdown over half term. The thing is though. I've been back in lockdown since 31st July. They are now advising us not to see anyone outside our household at all, even socially distanced in a park. I haven't seen my mum ( who lives 150 miles away) since last Christmas. I live on my own. Fortunately I am in a support bubble with a family because otherwise I would be going up the walls. Our rates are still going up. Whatever we are doing isn't having enough of an effect. If we need a lockdown to break into this we need a lockdown.

Daily data just released and nearly 23 000 positive cases! Blended learning here we come.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/04/leak-reveals-possible-harsher-three-tier-covid-plan-for-england

The thing I just posted may suggest otherwise..

No social contact outside your household yet schools presumably open as normal? That is just insane!

It's basically schools open at all costs.

I wonder if they're holding off to see if hospital admissions do ramp up. I'll cry if all I have is work and nothing social outside of it. It's not exactly social in school at the moment.

Exactly - no pubs, restaurants etc, no going round friend's houses but having to go into a packed school every day would be such an insult!

But this was exactly what they said in the summer. Pubs etc may have to close to keep schools open.

As a related question, does anyone know if pastoral teams /LAs are drawing up plans to try and keep better contact with vulnerable children if schools do end up closing? Because obviously the DfE would need to show that more safeguarding was going on than happened in the last lockdown. Or would they just be very strongly encouraged to come into school (plus keyworker children)?

@Augustbreeze - we had a couple of students first time round due to safeguarding concerns so I suspect we would have any who school have flagged up as there were quite a few with issues in the new intake. I also suspect there will be more students who fall under our learning support team in as well, shielded excluding. Just because I know some of them would end up with safeguarding concerns if the bottom falls out of their routing again.

@fuckweasel

Daily data just released and nearly 23 000 positive cases! Blended learning here we come.

Crikey!!

Although no one can force a parent to send a child into school if it's "closed", unless they're on a CPP, and even then technically they can't.

Daily data just released and nearly 23 000 positive cases! Blended learning here we come

23,000 oh god. The government won’t shut the schools.

There will be year group closures due to staff being sick, socially isolating or looking after their own kids whose bubbles have burst.

So the public will blame teachers for the closures, not the government. Great, looking forward to that.

Most of the kids we had in during lockdown were vulnerable - kids with social workers basically. Some vulnerables definitely slipped through though - wouldn't come in even though we offered to go and get them.

I don't know how they can justify shutting everything down again (even with schools open), when rates aren't going up in lots of places. There are 2 cases in my area at the moment for example. I imagine we (primary school, in an area of low cases) will be open the whole way through.

Wonder how that comment will age!!

I think about 16000 of those cases are old cases though. Which would bring it down to about 7000.

We seem to be back to ‘the stats are broken beyond repair’ so I’m not sure how we can tell what the situation is anymore.