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

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I’m not going in today. The main reason is I feel crap still and it’s a whirl of “can you cover x, can you supervise behaviour of Y?”COVID is in our school now, and it’s not a good idea to catch it while your immune system is fighting off something else.
Other reason is initial symptoms. Colleagues wouldn’t be able to say “oh, it’s just Saucery’s cold”. They’d have to isolate and try and get a test, taking them out of action for at least 3 days minimum. That would be serious for our small school.

I hope you feel better soon Saucery. Yes it's wise to get well. Even if it impacts staffing we must allow time to get well with non Covid stuff. I once went back too soon and had to have a considerable chunk off dealing with post viral fatigue.

I'm dreading this week. The shit is hitting the fan understandably with staff absences, mainly SI, but that's not great for behaviour in some classes. And support staff anxiety is spiralling too.

Home schooling is already illegal in several European countries. The left periodically push to have it banned here. It's part of why I realised my politics when younger were oversimplified. I don't think the state owns our children or that they should be able to compel parents to send them to school.

Saucery I am not in either. Slept all day yesterday.
I have lost my taste as well but that's not unusual with my allergies happens often.
Feel weak but ok apart from the taste thing.

Another teacher that had the same class as me is testing today too.

Reading that Guardian article. Schools will limp on forever.

So, me and my close colleague both awaiting test results too.

I see that our cover list has at least doubled in length today, compared to the last few weeks.

Hope you feel better soon, saucery.

I thought homeschooling was already banned in France tbh. Or maybe I'm thinking of Germany.

I’m not feeling well today, after extreme fatigue last week I have bunged up nose/sore throat etc. No temp or cough though, taste and smell all ok so I’m in work (keeping my mask on except when whole-class teaching). Anyway it turns out the two colleagues I share an office with both feel the same, so at least we know if one gets Covid, we all do!

This is a fascinating article

I’d also recommend Adam Kucharski’s The Rules Of Contagion for an accessible view of how things spread, and how they don’t.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/oct/04/exhausted-teachers-warn-they-have-no-additional-funding-to-handle-covid-19?CMP=ShareAndroidAppp_Other

Lol,at that PPE’d member of staff in a bright, airy classroom devoid of any children. The reality is Wet Play and having to bend down at face level while the children are still sat at their desks, chatting and shouting germs in your face.
We do have all the PPE we need and a promise we always will have, but we know it has to come from some other budget so we use our own where we can. Not an option for every school or staff member, though.

Yup.

The decision not to vax under 18 fits with gov stance on fines and no masks and not popping bubbles.
However another example of poorly thought through.
It can damage heart and lungs of even asymptomatic
With no lasting immunity the younger than 50 could be stuck catching this every few months
They know qbout long covid

It’s interesting how many threads there are about the two week ‘circuit breaker’ should be marking lots of arguing that we just need to crack on and get used to it in essence. Which is why parents keep sending in sick children - their right to an education trumps all.

Also - best reply yet - cases aren’t rising, so why would we? 🙄😬🤯

I've just had a lovely morning working with my 'nearly there' lot, who due to significant behaviour of other kids, get left to bobble along without the support they need. We're out of class in another room with a closed door, they've all done a lovely piece of descriptive writing. This afternoon I'm going to show them how to actually edit properly. Exciting times. I'd be a great TA.

Thats great 'ohthe goats'

My medicine saga continued. I called the chemist about my asthma preventer meds and spacer the nurse said would be ordered. But they hadnt got that. They have got my thyroxine though 🙄. Which im not going to take obviously as told not to. Probably a timing issue between okaying it then changing mind.
Does not explain what happened to asthma meds though. Thats been 2w.

Are you due an asthma review, KeepDistance? They might not even have told you there’s one overdue, but the repeat is just pinged back and not written up ime.

Im supposed to chat to her again tomorrow but was going to move it to give changes longer to work.

It was the nurse who ordered it on 15th sep so guess it must not have gone through i wonder if it got stuck at prescription stage? But thats all before any issues re thyroid stuff by about 2w.

10 staff sent home this morning! The shit has well and truly hit the fan here...

Whoah, MrsHamlet! Why the hell were they even in? Unless your school,is doing temp checks at the door.

It’s amazing how many virtual nooks and crannies a repeat prescription can disappear into, KeepDistance

@MrsHamlet

10 staff sent home this morning! The shit has well and truly hit the fan here...

Holy shit @MrsHamlet. Hope you’re ok.

Word has it that one of the people who tested positive was in close contact with the others at a social event

Fuckssake. DS’s self isolation has been extended because of a contact the day before his current contact. God knows how a test took that long or was even viable (thought 8 days was the maximum).
I’m going to join U4Me, moan my arse off about it (joke).

Hmm MrsHamlet, hope those 10 observed the rule of 6 and were contacts at different times otherwise there might be trouble.