The Thirtieth Republic ( 30! who would have thought) - Is it too soon to book a staff Xmas party?

[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 staffroom password just in case it attracts the wrong sort

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 come with a stick to goad us then that is not allowed in the staffroom and you will receive a detention

I've just set remote learning work for isolating students. It's my day off but it's easier to do it now than panicking on the day that I've forgotten to set stuff. It is very irksome setting work for kids who haven't engaged with the work you set them for the previous lesson and who you can't help but assume the parents have no intention of getting them to do the work.

Still boxes are ticked and I've done my part.

I don't have a car Angelina so if they closed every staffroom rather than just limiting them I'd be standing around in corridors because the classrooms seem to always be in use with the staggered breaks. Sorry you're having to have your lunch like that.

Luckily I live close to school and yesterday I actually walked home to get on with work here for an hour when I had 1hr40 of trapped time.

Bloody hell, 30?! Thanks staff!

Sorry not been on much. Drowning in self isolating kids at home and crap around pointless 📄 at work.

Onward transmission at my youngest's nursery confirmed in staff and a child; they've quite an outbreak. Several staff affected so far. I'm worried they'll have to close for a full break. Which will hugely affect us.

My eldest looks v peely wally too.

Hoping here too. Ain't going to happen.

Though that guy who was fired from sage is suggesting to extend the school holidays right now on world at 1. Carl Hennegan

(Sorry this: Morning. If we closed one week earlier we could all isolate before Christmas. Hoping government are decent enough to see that but not confident.)

What's peely wally neuro?

Pale. He says he's tired which is not like him!

Covid can do one now imho.

As predicted:

Half term dip:

And more

Not exactly ambiguous data is it?

No, positivity rates are dropping but testing has also increased - so does that effectively cancel out the positivity rate?

With the onward transmission data, it's pretty obvious.

Completely anecdotal but round here is grinding to a halt with the number of closed bubbles.

Bloody hell.

It's in what you would assume to be the 'not bloody rocket science' category of facts but twisted and convoluted by numerous filters of spin somehow ends up being unclear, no evidence, no proven links etc.

We live in very strange times intellectually speaking. People's understanding of 'truth' or 'facts' is all over the place. I studied comparative epistemologies as part of my final year in uni. Would love to be back in a seminar for that discussing contemporary 'ways of knowing'. Curious if this will become known as the 'post-truth' era.

Ain't that the truth

Seriously though, this is utter crap. Stop gaslighting us!

Actually even leaving out higher education and complex fields of philosophy I have been teaching year 7s about medieval depictions of hell and what influences people's understanding of reality and the wider world and how that has changed over time. They are not finding it difficult to unpick how their versions of reality have been formed and how medieval peasants version of reality would have been formed. So even the theory behind this stuff isn't fucking rocket science if mixed ability 11 year olds who allegedly had no education for 6 months can unpick the foundations for their understanding of the world and recognise that our perceptions of reality exist in relation to the context of our place and time.

And they haven't even read Animal Farm yet

I'm not sure. But one onward transmission event has the potential to spread to other families.

We sadly have a teacher off with it as her partner caught it in another school. (That school has fully closed temporarily.)

Wrong thread!

Jesus. Those graphs

DH just about got through it. Just messaged him. He said "I can't do this much longer".

I'm sorry monkey.

Forgot to say, my nephew's step father caught it from school. Nephew was SI with them. Not sure why ex sil thought she didn't have it, but she says she didn't. Somehow nephew carried it to his dad's and step mums house. All 4 teachers.

If it's in families and they have extended families, it spreads quickly.

@phlebasconsidered

Oh FFS!!!!! After a whole school staff meeting tonight our parents evenings are to be held over 3 FUCKING EVENINGS till 8pm using school class phones. In one week.

FUCK OFF!!!!!!! I have an actual real life family! Closer and closer to just signing myself off.

This is ridiculous. Why can’t they do an online parents evening? All of ours our now online. How can they expect staff to have no evening for 3 nights instead of 1. I’m angry on your behalf!

Our cover guy has started telling people only to test of they have two symptoms...

Those graphs!

My friend who was a carer for her Gran that I said died last week, her Mother is in hospital now struggling to breathe.

Oh Riga

@Hercwasonaroll

Oh Riga

Thanks hopefully she will be ok though.