The Thirty-Second Republic - Christmas count down - end of term in sight

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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

I'm not northern - Midlands (the part of the country people care about even less than the North!)

Sorry for the repetition...

Dangling tbf whenever I say 'the North', I'll be including you. Geography is not my strong point.

@Danglingmod you're north to me 😂. DD at Uni in Notts and I get in lots of trouble calling it north. I just mean it's north of here.

A consultation over something that the education minister already announced is happening?!!! Piss up in a brewery springs to mind.

www.tes.com/news/gcses-2021-new-details-advance-material-exams?fbclid=IwAR1XfuD4t67ILVi-g-41VT79E_TT3JcZrXkF7VgzGe3_Dk0BHdg12me_B8w

You've both just proved my point!

I'm under 2 hours from central London and getting on for 4 from Newcastle!

@BreadSaucery

Oh no, I’m not blaming the people who live down South! Just the ones in Govt and Public Health. They can get to fuck.

Absolutely, not the South’s fault, bloody Tory government

All livid up here to on my Department group chat.

@Danglingmod

You've both just proved my point!

I'm under 2 hours from central London and getting on for 4 from Newcastle!

No, genuinely, my geography is terrible. I can't hold a map in my head. I don't know why! When I say 'the North', I mean 'the areas most badly affected by covid' which will include Leicester. Where they actually are in the country is a bit of a mystery.

My friend in Cornwall is 9 hours from London. She's south west though. Think I just see it as a point on a compass from where I live. Maybe that's a southern thing ? I think Southampton is south. High Wycombe is north 😂

@Danglingmod

No one is blaming you, mumsneedwine!

You can't help being the golden child

Still catching up but love this post

I used to have a friend from York she says she lives in the North. Agreed!

When she went to the metro centre she used to follow the signs to the North as she lives in the North. Ended up lost crying to her Dad for directions.

A Maths teacher too.

Said she missed out the bearings topic.

@TheHoneyBadger i quite like being a golden child. It's preferable to stupid fing c that a year 11 said to me today. Because I asked him to wear his mask over his nose.

@Danglingmod

I'm not northern - Midlands (the part of the country people care about even less than the North!)

Also this I'm sort of nowhere. East Midlands at a push.

Bare in mind Londoners think everything past Watford gap service station is The North

Charming mums. We get all the best compliments.

I have the dread about tomorrow. It's not even a particularly bad timetable day. Think I'm just worn down.

To be fair, I have a bit of a blur around the bit just west of London...Are they the northern home counties? How do Oxford/Reading/those bits relate to each other? I'm pretty good on the whole rest of the country (and the main cities of the other UK nations).

I'm so glad Wales have made the sensible decision about secondary schools. We have close to 40 off at the moment either positive or self-isolating. 2 weeks ago we hadn't had a positive case amongst the staff. Morale is so low at the moment.

That's 40 staff members.

Was just about to post "40 kids? Small fry!"

But 40 teachers is a lot.

Sorry, staff members.

We keep swinging between more staff off than kids (percentage wise) and vice versa. Currently it's kids. 30%.

As far away from all this as I am, in the home of Boris's beloved Brexit solution - what does Australia-style deal even mean?, I'm done. I'm taking service leave from today and won't be back in until 28th January.
Yay! 😎

More seriously, I feel for you all. Everything predicted by teachers on numerous threads here is coming to pass. What amazes me is that teachers haven't yet been blamed for Covid in schools. Or have they?

I really disagree with full closures. We as teachers bear the brunt of the ill feeling it generates (ill feeling which is justified given that year 11 will have missed half a term here).

It's a blunt and ineffectual solution to a problem that could have been avoided with sensible mitigations. But no, chuck em all back in and then slam the doors shut when case numbers inevitably explode.

Yes @mumsneedwine not getting at you personally with my rant on the other post, but so so fucked off.
Our lovely head looks like he is about to crumble on every teams meeting, we now have around 950 out of 2000 kids ill or self isolating and still not allowed to close the school, or of course offered mass testing.
My dear husband, who is an NHS consultant is testing twice a week before work with the lateral flow test, all of his trust is, all of DS2s trust is ( different city 80 miles away) all of DNs trust is ( another different city 250 miles away) but apparently mass testing has literally only just become available and of course some London boroughs need it cos like they is London like and they is more important
Off to drink wine

That's interesting Loshad. Is it definitely all the trust or all frontline staff? We're testing frontline staff only as far as I can tell.