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

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@NeurotrashWarrior

As predicted:

Blimey.

It really pisses me off that they show all the other charts from week 20 something but this one, they’d rather show just a few weeks of the bar charts looking the same and then week 46-24 (next year) being empty, than showing what the infection rates were in children over the weeks when schools were closed and then opened, to show the difference.

I want someone to put that on their briefing slides.

Piggy that is completely outrageous.

I am hugely cross. We have a year group bubble and Hub class closed at the moment. Hub due back tomorrow, year group on Monday. Today ONE class from another bubble was closed because it was decided that there had been no mixing of classes. Which would be fine if it was true. The whole year group did an activity in the hall on Monday with an outside provider and the infected teacher. They were together for the whole lesson. 120 excited 9 year olds. I wonder if they have even told the outside provider!

@Piggywaspushed

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

Piggy has he written this down at all? I would pass to the union straight away, that is not.okay.

My God, who organises something like that in the middle of a pandemic!!!??

This is sinister...

schoolsweek.co.uk/trusts-quizzed-over-covid-cases-in-urgent-commission-for-education-secretary/

I’m so fed up of crap advice from PHE.

[quote Piggywaspushed]This is sinister...

schoolsweek.co.uk/trusts-quizzed-over-covid-cases-in-urgent-commission-for-education-secretary/[/quote]
That really is sinister!

So, they have realised there are too many children off now, so rather than look at why covid is spreading is schools, they just want the number of children isolating to be reduced?!

Why are they only asking academy trusts and not LEA schools??

I AM SO FUCKING ANGRY, I CAN'T TELL YOU!!!!!

Do NOT let me out onto the main boards tonight.

Oh Riga. Your poor friend, I hope her mum recovers quickly.

Those graphs are terrifying!!! I am getting more and more anxious about being at school through this. It's awful, and yet a lot of the kids (and some staff) are treating it like it's all some jolly lark.

Our one way system took a hit today as one of the fire doors that is an exit in the one way system has broken. The site team couldn't fix it, so they just screwed it shut!!! It's a double fire door, so one of them is open, the other is closed. The remaining for is narrower than a normal classroom door because obviously they are designed to be opened together. So 8 classes of kids at a time are supposed to file out of a very narrow door in single file. We objected and said it was dangerous to allow that, but the H&S officer said we couldn't overrule her one way system 🤷. We sent half the kids out of the "entrance only" door, so they didn't get crushed. I have no idea how long it will be before they get someone in to fix the fire door.

holds back @CallmeAngelina in Eastenders style -leave it! E's not worth it!

I've just realised that I did in fact see this mentioned somewhere on here last night, but didn't fully take it on board that it was an actual thing - just assumed it was more of the same old, same old we've had all along.

But our HT has posted a message from PHE on our board today, saying that their date is telling them that the main reason at the moment for schools having to close is.... staff to staff contact, and can we therefore be reminded to 'keep our distance?'

I think this has just pushed me over the edge. How. Fucking. Dare. They.
I have cried in pure rage all over DH. He has brought wine.

Awful, Riga. I believe treatments have greatly improved since the early days of the virus, if that’s a glimmer of hope x

What's up Angelina (apart from the usual clusterfuck of teaching in a pandemic)?

That schoolsweek article is depressing- soon we'll just be told to send nobody home at all when there's been a positive case. Our head was already told today that 4 cases in 5 days wasn't an issue and there's no reason for whole year groups to isolate at all

After EVERYTHING we've discussed on the Republic over the last months, everything we've shared that is going on in our schools, how far above-and-beyond we've all gone, how much SHIT we've had thrown at us on here and in rl about the shit-show that we've caught in our bare hands... WE WARNED THEM THIS WOULD HAPPEN. We SAID numbers would rise.
And now it's OUR FAULT they have?!!!!!

Just quietly piling up the coping paper in front of the door to stop Angelina getting out.
---> there's cake and wine and fondue over there

Thats awful Riga.

Our school case is apparently an adult not child. Which is definitely not what was implied in the email.
Someone who moves between bubbles, so possibly some asymptomatic children. Obviously more potential spread maybe too due to being adult.

On other thread someone was telling story of being in a library and a man asking librarian for help to book covid test online (he was coughing). !I

The school outbreak data looks odd to me i woukd have expected a dip then back up but it seems to have gone higher than back up.
Which could be holidays i guess. Or as one of you say people wont test during school breaks or unless they are being kept out of school/work.
Or its the gatherings they have possibly meeting other schools.

Im thinking it's really going to rise after the 2n d onc e shops open for all the xmas shopping.

It's all so shit. Hands round the alcohol....

4 schools in close proximity to mine have sent home all or part of Y11.

How can we just go ahead with exams?

Does this look like cases are plateauing, or that "lockdown" is working to anyone?
My area and pretty much all areas nearby have the exact same shape....

smile I've been looking for a wall stapler with staples all bloody week! We have many of each but not in the required combo.

Pass the gin.

I mean, I’m no geographer Why, but that’s not my understanding of a “plateau”.

It's bizarre isn't it, yet all I'm seeing in the media and online is cases are dropping, deaths are dropping, wooo let's all have a Christmas party!

It’s like they think a vaccine is coming for sure in Jan and it’s a cure, not a preventative.