The Twenty-Eight Republic - Lockdown Light

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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 booze is stashed - Thirsty Tuesdays, Fizz Fridays now in operation.

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

I'm about MNHQ's lax attitude towards baiting by goady fuckers. Apparently that's all in the spirit of debate.

A big thumbs up to ohthegoats.

She could re-apply under "HotHostage* all the same letters:o

Jesus: HotHostage

I've toyed with the idea of posting acrostically.

Anyone else lost respect for Witty? He told mps teaching wasn't a high risk profession and quoted the ons statistics as proof. Weren't they before the summer when schools were completely different to normal? He's too intelligent not to realize this, so it feels like deliberate gaslighting. Expected better from him.

Yes, eh did go on to say something like ' dat does change'.

Whitty is like the data manager in my schools. If it isn't in quantitative data it isn't really. Because he isn't 'political' he can't and won't call for fresher data. It is frustrating.

I don't think they care that there are many young women in hospital tbh : they tend to have better survival rates...when there are too many, and the NHS reaches a critical point,then something will happen.

I actually find it more frustrating that the politicians who question don't read stuff themselves. That is like my head : he's the data guy, so I don't need to interrogate the data myself. If they actually did, then they would have queried him on the 'teachers are safe' thing.

Lol, he didn't sat dat does change. That would be hilarious.

data

Right, up and at 'em today.

Going to be a hard one. So pleased colleagues will be all wearing masks around school. Expecting lots of non-complying kids as this is an abrupt change in our sciool.

And dh officially shielding again. So, I might be able to be in the same room as him on the last day of the Christmas hols

Gin, flowers and heated blankets for all today. Especially, ohthegoats if you're reading.

I have been restlessly anxious about my school trying to impose masks : lack of will power, split site school where students are outside travelling to lessons, then inside, then outside. Heaving social areas where they also eat and not duty staff...LOTS of entitles students and staff

Abrupt change for us as head doesn’t believe in it so she’s mad about the masks thing! Trying to make us not wear them as it’s a special school, but the students are all used to seeing masks now and are fine with it!

Weirdly we've had complete radio silence about masks. The head was very anti masks and I was expecting an email by now, but nothing...

Morning all!

Sorry for the diversion but looking for advice. Still heard nothing in relation to my request for leave next week for DH’s op. What should I do if it’s rejected? I can’t go off sick, it’ll be too obvious but I can’t go to work, he needs post op care.

Gah!!!!

Could Whitty have been lent on (again)?

Chase it up mother!

Don't request : tell

'As previously informed, I will be absent form work for the period .... to manage my husband's post operative care'

Exactly same number of cars on the road today! Lockdown?? What lockdown?

@motherrunner find head in person or whoever and email asking when you’ll know as you need to plan for next week? It’s frustrating we used to have this and I’d spend hours chasing people soooo frustrating.

@WhyNotMe40 we had an email saying SLT would be meeting tomorrow following guidance today and would then update us - although we are already wearing masks. I think it has said we have until Monday to implement technically so maybe you’ll hear something today?

Whoever was worried abiut implementing it - we told students on a Friday late afternoon and started on the Monday. I would say despite low expectations fro my head and many others majority of kids wearing them and getting better about wearing them. Y11 worse at warring on chins and noses out but more and more staff challenging them and telling to put on and they now are starting to do so.

Of course Whitty is doing what he is told, we know SAGE wanted lockdown weeks ago and we also know they wanted secondary schools closed. They’ve seen the data including stuff not published and are choosing to reference out of date data for propaganda purposes just like that PHE study in schools was used in the summer.

We have had the masks for staff in communal areas since we had our first positive case (primary school) so no change here! Also have had parents asked to wear masks at drop off/pick up since the same time, and the vast majority have complied. Both sons schools had already changed to masks in corridors for year 7 up since half term - optional for my year 5 son (middle school system here) but he is wearing one as it only applies for toilet trips and the one year group assembly a week as they are moving between classes around the outside of the building.

Waking up this morning feeling a bit odd as everyone is talking about lockdown but as a very school based family for both work and kids it feels like nothing has changed here really!

MrsHercule - yes they will probably chew it over in SLT before telling us. At least now I have a genuine reason to wear masks in the corridors and won't feel like I'm going against the head!

Nothing will change for us here either, except all the fun stuff for the kids is cancelled

Traffic horrendous this morning here!

What lockdown???!

Al morning traffic is school and work anyway. School traffic might actually get worse with parents not wanting the risk of kids travelling on public transport?

Traffic is definitely better here although of course nothing like the empty roads of first lockdown. Which perhaps points to the fact that this one isn't going to do a great deal of good.....

We’ve had a couple of new bypass roads opened over the last few months so it’s difficult to tell if traffic is lighter because there isn’t as much of it or whether it’s down to opening up new routes.
A lot of essential shops shut down for a few weeks at the start of the first lockdown, then opened up when Covid reducing measures put in. They seem to have remained open (as they can, being local food producers) this time, so their staff and customers will still be going into work.

@MrsHerculePoirot I’m isolating until Saturday so not in school.

The protocol at my school is to submit the form and wait for the head to contact us. I have sent an email saying I have filled in the form and tentatively asked whether I should teach in teams but no response. So frustrating.

Not sure about traffic but all my neighbour’s cars have gone. Two of my neighbours are NHS but not sure of the others.

Sorry @motherrunner had totally forgotten that! Fingers crossed you hear soon and they allow it without any ridiculousness.

Traffic was noticeably heavier for me today! Bloody annoying, so now there’s not even ONE perk of lockdown for me.

However at wraparound drop off I bumped into DS’s best friend’s mum - they’re in different bubbles so can’t play together at school and their salvation had been DS going home with BFF every Monday after school. So now they can’t even do that, we’ve decided that we might happen to be in the same park together on the weekend, or walking in the same direction on the beach. It’s so horrible for them to be kept apart, they’re 9 so they can’t even text each other like adults or teens could (me and the other mum are both quite hot on internet safety so they’re really limited on using devices to communicate).

FFS, someone’s just sent new rotas through. It seems to have been written to ensure as many different people are working in close contact with each other as possible. It’s like nobody has realised there’s a pandemic and test & trace will take out half the section if someone gets it. Just because it says covid secure on the door, doesn’t mean the virus can read.