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

Exactly

@Augustbreeze

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)

I was thinking about this, looking at /thinking about the heat maps it's absolutely the case that schools/ secondaries help the spread. They've told us that through the heat maps. Annoying includes a wide age range but gaps can be filled in by looking at the other data.

Half term wasn't long enough to prove in data due to how the virus incubates etc. It may have show effect this week but they could attribute it to lockdown too.

There's possibly some fairly clever data misrepresentation going on, in terms of sometimes including narrower age ranges and sometimes not.

Loved to have seen the heat maps with keystages on.

I think primary only really dont as bubbles are easier to manage and close. I also read last night they think that more children are immune/ less symptomatic due to decent coronavirus exposure plus their immune system.

Here we go, equally able to transmit:

twitter.com/drzoehyde/status/1312392762445066243?s=21

There's so much in that thread I could copy.

"Emerging data continue to suggest that children are as infectious as adults."

Sorry, happy Sunday.....

There's also some fancier heat maps that show no difference between adults and young children all the way through in terms of transmission.

The data is suiting the narrative. The thing is that I don't want to see my own pupils back at home. But there could be ways to have varying levels of open ness. And a full short lockdown would have definitely had more impact on reduced spread.

Sneakily, Boris Johnson has climbed down over free school meals. Whilst we were all celebrating with Biden yesterday he rang Marcus Rashford.

What a knob.

Why, good explanations by prof Devi Shridhar on twitter that this is the virus wrecking the economy.

This is a natural disaster. The economy is fucked either way. The nhs is also fucked either way unfortunately. It's a constant balancing act of fighting fires.

The government havent helped by ignoring all prior models on pandemics and by not being prepared.

The economies of East Asian counties will be so much stronger as they've learnt and prepared for this for decades.

Plastic, I think he's worried about the next election....!

I'll have a look, thanks

@plasticboxesrock yes, very sneakily done. Although I am very pleased he has agreed to fund the meals.

I managed to get out for a good run yesterday which I was really happy with. Just need to carve out some time after school this week to run again.

Tried out my new digital pen yesterday to mark an isolating student's work and that worked well.

Need to look at my planning this week as I have numerous students in numerous classes isolating so I want to be able to just upload the lesson to teams for them.

DS is negative, phew.

Thumbs up, monkey

Tried out my new digital pen yesterday to mark an isolating student's work and that worked well.

Ooh, tell me more please (mind you I've had to switch off my touchscreen on my ancient school laptop because it's corrupted.

@monkeytennis97

DS is negative, phew.

Good news 😊

@plasticboxesrock I think that sneaking u-turns through under cover of other news and releasing guidance for schools at inappropriate times are both hallmarks of the current government.

@PumpkinPie2016 do tell, not heard of digital pens before.

Good news @monkeytennis97!

Also want to know about digital pens @PumpkinPie2016! I bought a cheap stylus, so ca mark on my iPad, but find it hard to write!

@monkeytennis97

DS is negative, phew.

That's a relief! Hope that you can see ds again soon, monkey .

Good news Monkey xx

Thanks for that Twitter thread Neuro. Some interesting stuff.

One of them being this

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/27/health/florida-covid-children-hospitalizations/index.html?twitterr_impression=true

[quote Stepawayfromtheminirolls]@plasticboxesrock I think that sneaking u-turns through under cover of other news and releasing guidance for schools at inappropriate times are both hallmarks of the current government.[/quote]
In the interests of balance, there was also the very famous case of Jo Moore, the Labour spin doctor announcing that 9/11 was a "good day to bury bad news."
So it's not just the current government's "thing."

Dr Jill Biden has said that she will continue to work as a teacher at a local community college while her husband does his job as President of the USA.

I'm trying to decide what level of job my DH would need to get for me to stop teaching. I'm thinking definitely one where I need security! Or would that be handy for behaviour management?

Ha! I think having a couple of Men in Black types lurking in the room would definitely improve my bottom set year 9's behaviour

@WhyNotMe40

Ha! I think having a couple of Men in Black types lurking in the room would definitely improve my bottom set year 9's behaviour

I think I'd quite like having some security guards in with my year 10s. It would be useful to have one standing behind child A, and another behind child B.