The Thirty-First Republic - oh the joy of on-line parents evenings

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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 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

@noblegiraffe: I believe you've been swearing and ranting!

Doesn’t sound like me at all, Ange. Graphs and statistics, no idea why people get so wound up.

It's pointing out evidence that they prefer to ignore.

ears

I wish we could move away from the "schools closing" language, and refer instead, a la Cummings, to "switch to online learning."

I tire of all the martyr rhetoric, tbh.

Reminds me of this:

@CallmeAngelina

I wish we could move away from the "schools closing" language, and refer instead, a la Cummings, to "switch to online learning."

Absolutely! Kids not being physically in school fills parents with fear and dread and the only ones to blame for this are Boris, Cummings et al. They have a lot of answer for

I know. I’m not Willem Dafoe in Platoon, I don’t want to go into work with Adagio For Strings playing over the top of me.
I just want to do my job protected by basic H&S procedures adapted to a major global pandemic. I didn’t think that was too much to ask, but here we are.

Saucery that made me laugh

I was telling my friend over the weekend that going to work feels like being in the trenches at the minute. That it's just constant, relentless stress without any of the things that used to make it bearable, even sitting having a natter in the staffroom. Running from room to room and now the hell of exam marking just to finish us off.

Friend is older and wiser. She said, 'You will look back at the things you put up with and think, why did I do that for so long when I didn't have to? Why did I waste all that time?' She really made me think which led to the exit strategy conversation with DH.

Definitely thinking of an exit strategy here.

I don’t want to go into work with Adagio For Strings playing over the top of me.
Thanks @Saucery. I'm going to have that image in my mind as I head in tomorrow!!
Another nerves nausea weekend behind me, only 2 more to go.
Thoughts to all those having it even tougher than teaching, and thanks for the ongoing support.

It's the boiling frog analogy in action, isn't it?

Yes to boiling frog. I'm so fed up now.

More SLT BS landed today. Can say no more beyond WTF

Right, I'm staying in here from now on.
The rest of this site is pissing me off. Round and round in bloody circles, debating the same fucking points with people who just can't see the wider picture beyond their own situation. And are determined to believe that schools are functioning as normal, just because they send their kids off in uniform each morning and receive them back each afternoon.

And I know those sentences don't make sense - note form.

Hear hear Angelina.

I stopped making sense in September.

So it sounds like exams might have pre release topics and books allowed in....

Another move to advantage Eng Lit. Hmmm.
Once more can't see how this will advantage poor benighted film.

ITV News at whatever (10?) led with the story 'chaos in classrooms' about GCSEs.

Exciting!

Lots of blame re teachers being off, more than anything about actual covid going round in schools, even from kids (who were not socially distanced in their interview).

We'll see.

@ChloeDecker hope you feel better quickly.

But teachers being off doesn't really fit the ONS bollocks!

At least Santa has some protection this Christmas, folks!

I think it's been a long time since children were allowed to sit on Santa's knee actually!

Once more can't see how this will advantage poor benighted film.

Or maths. I had open book exams at uni. If you can’t solve an equation before an exam, you’re not going to have time in an exam to learn how to!

I have a subject question - any English bods here?

I'm confused about adverbs of cause - why aren't they just conjunctions? My colleague has done the most confusing notebook that I'm meant to use tomorrow, but I don't get it.

She's got 'adverbs of cause' tell us how something happens. Surely for year 3 and 4, an adverb of how is an adverb of manner, so an -ly word? And an adverb of cause tells us why something happened?

I fucking hate grammar. Back in the day I taught children how to write, now I teach them how to be confused by the language they are using.

Bloody insomnia. Tried lying in the dark but ended up obsessing over the trainee not being able to cope with feedback and wondering if I'm just meant to pretend she's perfect given the pt response to my last observation form.

Definitely not something to be thinking about at midnight.

Giving in and going to watch more queens gambit.

Would consequently be an adverb of cause? Don't think it's an adverb. What madness that 7 year olds have to learn that stuff