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

2lbs more to 5 stone lost since March.... really want that milestone but it seems I want chocolates and wine more recently😂

Wow, monkey

Wow Monkey that's awesome!

[quote monkeytennis97]@TheHoneyBadger still have at least 2 stone to go! Just want chocolate, cake, wine😩[/quote]
At least 3 stone to go for me. Lost a stone and a half April to September but just fluctuating between 13:12 and 14:1 since really.

5stone is a lot! Slowing down a bit is a good thing really if it's to be sustainable.

Yeah I spent months on 1500 cals a day over Spring and Summer... I just can't seem to motivate myself to go lower than 1800 a day at the moment. Still going for 4/5 long walks a week but was doing 8-10 miles every day during lockdown.

French schools : sixth from age gone to blended learning of some kind.

Wish I could motivate myself to lose any weight....

I’ve put on a few pounds since going back to school and stopping doing Joe Wicks every day. I do them at the weekend but that’s also when I stuff my face with pringles and booze.

Congrats to all the ‘losers’, that really does take grit and determination!

Have you seen this posted on BRTUS?

I support the idea (mass testing of a whole school) but the wording is quite alarming I think (hope it posts):





Here, hopefully:
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Blast. Look at Broadgreen School, Liverpool, news, letter re testing. Quite scary stuff.

That is very poorly worded. Almost designed to put the fear of God into parents who are already in denial?

Latest (I think) SAGE report says that secondaries do seem to spread COVID and that therefore school holidays will have an effect. (Courtesy of BRTUS page, which is now my Go to source for up to date info, as Data thread is only sporadically busy these days)

As a group of reasonably sane people (overlooking the unnatural lusting over stationery common to many teachers ) - can I run something by you?

I have noticed in a lot of anti lockdowners what I perceive to be a misattribution of situations to lockdown, that would be better pinned on the virus itself. I may be wrong - which is why I'm asking for opinions.
I'm talking about cancelled operations - not due to lockdown but freeing up staff and beds for Covid patients
GPs doing more phone consultations and triage - protecting doctors so they can stay well to treat others.
Ditto for dentists and health visitors.
Etc

Mental health issues - well the isolation is very hard, but I also think that the alternative of whole communities being unable to access any sort of medical care, and the possibility of key services being disrupted due to lack of staff - would also be bad for mental health. And physical health.

But also - there is no point in arguing this with anti lockdowners. Am I wrong?

Yes agree @Danglingmod. Why on earth did the Head decide to say that they would "secure the child" if they test positive???

[quote Augustbreeze]Here, hopefully:
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Blimey!!

Yes @WhyNotMe40. But I think if you don't believe that lockdown is the only and best option we have under the circumstances, and that "the virus isn't as bad as they're making out", those are logical judgements.

It's as if the Head's first language is not English.

But even if the virus isn't that bad - the hospitals are making their decisions entirely separate to lockdown. The two aren't related?

I didn't get much past the random assortment of diacritics in the school name - but the wording is terrible.
You're not wrong, why

It is a fascinating standpoint... To blame lockdown rather than Covid.

Johnson tweets a condolence for Rabbi Sacks tonight and people replying going "you don't care about the thousands of people killing themselves because of lockdown..."

1. massively inappropriate and disrespectful
2. huge hyperbole
3. covid killing more people than suicide and would/will continue to rise without restrictions.

I'm getting all sorts of memes on my FB from people I previously thought were rational, intelligent, and educated, about how the suicide rate increase 300% in the last lockdown, and similar. I could link to fact checker or Snopes but I CBA as it won't achieve anything.
I'm sorry, but if someone gives me evidence that I'm wrong, I will accept it. May take some time to be gracious about it, but I get there.
But I know there is no point here.

Also re the mass testing of a school, are they on safe ground legally using 'opt out' rather than 'opt in' parental permission? I mean I totally understand why - can you imagine being the poor secretary who has to "chase up the slips" whilst the army are drumming their fingers in the Hall?

You are not wrong why. I’d add to that the thing about economy vs lives.

Pandemic/epidemic viruses tend to be bad for the economy. People stop going out & if they do that they stop spending money.
Come to think of it, people being afraid to go out has been blamed on scare mongering rather than the virus.