The Twenty-Seventh Republic - rules or guidelines - Pandemic or Pirates of the Caribbean

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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 and you will receive a detention

Congratulations @marplemead and good luck.

The majority of students I've spoken to at school found home learning beneficial for their wellbeing. I get that of course for some kids it will be difficult but this constant bleating about kids' mental health from certain posters smacks of hypocrisy. Kids are often more resilient than people give them credit for and this notion that they'll be miserable unemployed wrecks with a drastically shortened life expectancy because of a few months learning at home seems a bit ridiculous.

A lockdown with schools still open is totally pointless

Universities starting to make u turns

BBC News - Covid-19: University of the West of England makes masks U-turn
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-54745781

@Cantaloupeisland

I’ve found that too. This is the little discussed area that many of the more vocal parents in here don’t want to discuss. Actually, school as it is currently run is quite damaging to teen mental health.

There are some students who do really well with home learn and some who don’t we should be able to come up with flexible plans to suits all of them. It wouldn’t be that difficult.

On the onrunning saga of DH's flu jab, just discovered that a local 55 year old with no underlying conditions got booked in for a drive thru jab last week at our clinic.

Am actually fuming.

Lots of people in my village who have from asthma, through diabetes and on to heart conditions have been fobbed off but he gets one?? Wow.

He works from home, too!!

@Piggywaspushed What?!

This pandemic is highlighting just how selfish some people are.

What is going to make DS1's MH suffer is having to attend all his uni lectures form his shitty student house, whilst not being able to go to the gym (which has has only just started up again and needs it) , go out for a drink, meet up with a mate. DH won't be able to do golf, DS2 won't be doing football, I am guessing, although Lord knows : youth sport also has magical anti Covid properties

I predict secondary students' behaviour will deteriorate because, even more so than usual, they will resolve all their beef in schools, do all their socialising and snogging in school etc etc.

@Piggywaspushed

It's very stressful. It's like the responsibility for the entire country's medical, emotional and economic well being has been foisted on us. I am sure none of us answered that as an exciting part of teaching in a PGCE/ job interview!

So very true. Feeling very overwhelmed by it all.

I don't think he was being selfish. he is over 50 so probably thought he should get one. the more people get the jab the better , I'd say. But I am very cross with the surgery. I'd be phoning up and shouting but DH is doing an ostrich act on that one.

I did have to walk past a big poster outside Sainsburys telling us all to 'do the right thing' and get vaccinated. His school abandoned their scheme : Boots pulled out.

Our LEA used to give us a flu jab for free. They've stopped this year!

New thread about the data for secondaries in particular.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4065757-Secondary-schools-are-fucked

@noblegiraffe There’ll be someone along soon who’ll tell you your data is bollocks and you need to resign due to your anxiety.

Very interesting Indy Sage talk (from 13 to 18 mins in) on here-shows what other countries have done. One of the last sides in particular suggests that a very long period of Tier 3+ restrictions in England might keep schools open, but at a cost of about a million extra people getting Covid. A short sharp lockdown with schools closed looked far more sensible!

I think the people who normally do that are primary parents. We'll see though!

Oh God, noble… guess I'll see you over on the dark Side of the corona board.

I have the utmost confidence that it will be a nice, supportive and friendly thread, piggy

2 sage scientists have said we're seeing four times as many women aged between 20 and 40 being hospitalised due to the fact they are more likely to work in educational and healthcare settings. When are people going to admit that the education sector is clearly a massive spreader?!

Our nursery (attached to primary school) is sending whole classes home. 3yos can't social distance.

@Cantaloupeisland

2 sage scientists have said we're seeing four times as many women aged between 20 and 40 being hospitalised due to the fact they are more likely to work in educational and healthcare settings. When are people going to admit that the education sector is clearly a massive spreader?!

The never will admit to it-heaven forbid that teachers were actually speaking sense all these months!

@Augustbreeze Closing colleges for two-four weeks would seem to me a no-brainer. I can’t speak for everyone but we’ve been teaching with one eye on moving to remote learning all year, we know our classes now and they’ve had plenty of social contact and time to mix. Going remote until December would be fairly simple at this point, with time left in the year to cover coursework and anything practical when f2f teaching resumed. I cannot understand why they don’t do it now. The later in the year it gets, the harder it will be and the more impact it will have. I completely understand starting the year in person but it feels like this is the golden opportunity! The weather’s bad, stuff will be shut anyway...a lot of students will like it IF they know it’s time-limited and we’ll be back in college soon.

I'm prepping any exam questions / worksheets I want my classes doing until Xmas. Going to give them out this week

Poop posted too early
and tell kids to keep them in their bag so they'll have them in school or at home if we close / they have to isolate. Biggest issue I've found with remote learning is them not having the stuff in front of them.
Watch this go wrong

We got a message from the DC’s primary saying after half term they’re sending Home Learning Packs home with each child and we are NOT TO OPEN THEM unless told otherwise! I laughed at the vision of all the keenies (of which there are definitely some at the school) making their kids do school work and the home learning stuff too, to try and get brownie points from the Head (who everyone loves).

I am just going to feel sad about Sean Connery for a while.

And then go back to ranting,

@Piggywaspushed

I am just going to feel sad about Sean Connery for a while.

And then go back to ranting,

I just read about this news. Such a great actor, DH and I have just agreed he was the best James Bond.