The Twenty-Eight Republic - Lockdown Light

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

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

Quite a balanced debate on this thread although some misconceptions need sorting, wish I had time ....

Rational thread on the risks of schools staying open www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4067771-Rational-thread-on-the-risks-of-schools-staying-open

Wow that last one went fast!

Thanks staff.

Have you seen that appalling thread in staffroom where a teacher is being threatened with dismissal after still being too ill to return after double pneumonia in September and reinfections?! Utter twats!

@hw09aam

I’ve been a recent lurker here. I’m 25 weeks pregnant. My school is pretty good, but fed up of the walking around with my painful hips and PGP. Spent the whole day trying to get my exam classes to focus as they all think that exams will be cancelled and are about as fed up as teachers!

Congratulations!

Oh pgp isn't good. Gosh yes I can imagine it's getting hard to motivate students who are close to exams.

From the new edition of Private Eye, some light relief .

My dc1 would not be top for dance lol two left feet.

When i was at school a few of the clever top set were also the pretty girls and in sports teams.

I can't find the article linked to this statement yet.

So we are all isolating today as dp
Showing symptoms.
Dd is beside herself this will literally be her third lot of isolation since September of he tests positive

Riga hope we are both back in work later this week 🤞

@starrynight19

So we are all isolating today as dp Showing symptoms. Dd is beside herself this will literally be her third lot of isolation since September of he tests positive

Riga hope we are both back in work later this week 🤞

Yes I hope so Starry. I feel guilty. I know I shouldn't but we do.

Misleading headline from sky? Also does it really put the fears about school to rest?? What? Even if its the same which it isn't that is bad enough.

Coronavirus: Children do not increase risk to adults they live with, new research shows
Children do not increase the COVID risks to adults they live with - putting to rest one of the fears about keeping schools open, new research shows.
Analysis of the health records of nine million working age adults shows those living with secondary school-aged children had a small, 8% increased risk of being infected with the virus.
But they were no more likely than adults without children to be admitted to hospital or die.
Adults living with primary school-aged children were not even more likely to be infected, according to researchers from OpenSAFELY who study electronic GP records in Englan

And this???? The study, which ran between March and August, has not yet been peer reviewed.

Blimey so that's 8% increased risk even when schools were closed to the vast majority of kids?

Just back from giving blood and a nice collective moan about public sector workers being magically not at risk with the nurses there.

We compared being clapped and being vilified and concluded vilified was better than patronising applause from people who'd vote against our sectors being funded properly. Two different nurses made a point of telling me about the morrisons discount One said, no doubt they'll resent us for that too.

Yes hard to get them to stay very motivated! I think as students they are just very fed up of not knowing what is going to happen next. Will they have exams etc with how things are going - they don’t think so!

Dd was literally starting two weeks of revision classes before mocks so went to one yesterday lunch and after school and now that’s it.
She said today there’s no point even bothering anymore.
I am really worried she will just give up now

Oh my Lord the roads are RAMMED

Oh @starrynight19 that's hard on her. Hope you're all out of isolation quickly. Ditto @RigaBalsam.

So there was serious incident not to far from us where a primary child was abducted and assaulted this morning. Police then sent out a message to all schools saying increased police presence but asking that everyone travelled home 'with caution', that they go straight home, travel with others and avoid alleyways which was a bit frightening as DD now walks home herself, so I ran out of school at the end of the day and pretended I just fancied walking home with her. Have obviously now left everything there and brought home stuff I didn't need to.... might pop back in the car in a bit to sort it out so tomorrow isn't stressful!

Pub for me tonight with some friends. Outside of course.....

Thanks Hercule.

That is truly awful about that primary child. Horrific!

DD is negative 🎉

Cover debrief says my year 9 were so badly behaved the CS suggests they sit the test again.

I'm inclined to mark what they've done to be honest. They already had two extra weeks of revision due to half of them having to SI and me not wanting to teach the start of the next module without them. Why should they get a second chance for bad behaviour?

That's awful MrsHP.

(Slow fingers, crossed post)

I wouldn't give them a second chance. But I'm apparently well harsh.

Absolutely shattered. Internet connection is my area today was poor. Cue lots of ‘miss can you repeat that? You’re lagging’.

Just having a break before my first parents evening appointment at 5. Roll on 8pm!

@MrsHamlet

I wouldn't give them a second chance. But I'm apparently well harsh.

I'm also irked that they've been given positives for 'settling' and 'working well' and then negatives for 'talking'.

Talking during an assessment should be a a detention really. I torn between marking what they've done (and giving them detentions myself) and making them resit in absolute silence after a proper bollocking.

Oh my gosh was that the incident shown on Crimewatch today? That poor girl and thank god the two ladies were there to stop him. Seeing it made my blood turn to ice.

Thanks Hercule that’s horrific about that poor child.
Frlrlubert glad you got a negative

Did I just hear right on the radio that Boris wants to halve the self isolation time for people testing positive to 7 days??

Wasn’t he himself still in hospital and seemingly quite unwell 7 days after testing positive?

They did that in France. Would be bonkers to do that during lockdown. I remember that nice Labour MP (the doctor one) got very angry at him keeping saying he was unisolating himself. Turned out she was right.