The Thirty-Sixth Republic - New Year approaching, no clear idea of what is happening next week and has Gav been sacked yet?

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Hooray!

God knows what will happen next week. It will be carnage though.

Greetings! I am about to quite literally shovel shit - 5 tons of well rotted manure to be precise. It makes a change from DfE shit, I suppose.

Thanks Staff

Hi all 😊 Going to limit SM today as my MH can't take too much more x

Thanks SantaStaff

God I wish Schools Week had comments, there'd be some belters on that article.

The pilot scheme had the actual army doing the tests, didn't they? Why does it mention exam invigilators (ours are pretty elderly) and the PTA?

Thank you, Staff.

Thanks @SantaAssociationRepresentitve for the new thread

schoolsweek.co.uk/a-7-step-plan-for-running-mass-testing-in-schools/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

I’ll just put this here as well in case anyone missed it.

I really just want to say piss off Hamid, to be honest. I hope he was paid well for selling out like this.

I think Gove has one child in Year 11 and one child in Year 13. Gav has nothing to do with schools now this is critical year for the Goves 😂

I’m with Salty. If I get it (and with 3 adults in the room from next week, plus essential close contact in my role it’s not really an ‘if’ but a ‘when’ now) I will be off until every last symptom has gone. No going in with fatigue, headache, etc like other staff have been doing.
I’ve had enough now. My good will just ran out.

I read a Guardian article last night that had a bit at the bottom about discussions re secondary schools in Tier 4 areas being closed till half term and now it has popped up on MN too.

I think that's the likely outcome - like when the discussions were about masks and the batshit covid-denier Tory MPs managed to force it so that they were only mandated in lockdown areas.

Schools in other tiers will be open, until they also become Tier 4 and there'll be that knife-edge of uncertainty the whole time.

Awesome.

I read a Guardian article last night that had a bit at the bottom about discussions re secondary schools in Tier 4 areas being closed till half term and now it has popped up on MN too.

That would be a right kick in the teeth for the North.

@RigaBalsam

I read a Guardian article last night that had a bit at the bottom about discussions re secondary schools in Tier 4 areas being closed till half term and now it has popped up on MN too.

That would be a right kick in the teeth for the North.

And primary.

We’re used to it now, Riga. We ordered mouth guards like they have for rugby it’s happened so often over the last year.

Thanks staff.

My good will ran out in the summer and since then I have not used my own money for anything school related. I haven’t even bought a pen!

So no stickers, no extra books, no wall stuff etc

If the school can’t fund it then why should I ?

Yep-that’s about right.

Nothing in any of the government stuff suggests primaries closing. The focus has been on the issues in secondary. Staggered starts, mass testing etc.

They're pretending primary isn't an issue despite the graph saying otherwise.

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SAGE must be going mental.

I heard from a friend that the air was blue in a previous meeting over whether we should have the second lockdown.

Gav has a DD in year 11.

I know politicians should be objective but how can they be if their DCs are so tied up in it? You'd think it would create insight and empathy. The opposite it seems.

I feel so sick at the thought of going back. I've already had covid so I'm not worried for myself but for the health and wellbeing of my colleagues and wider community. I am so angry at the way this whole thing has been handled. Hospitals have more covid patients than April and yet we will be pushed back into overcrowded schools with the added logistical nightmare of inaccurate testing to add to our workloads. The unions say the right things but nobody is listening and the media just vilify teachers and school staff as lazy.
Going for a walk before I combust with rage!

It is no good the NEU just tweeting. What is the ASCL position : have they told heads how unreliable the LFTs are??

Are SBMs and exams officers unionised? If I was a bursar or business manager I'd be telling them to fuck off to the far side of fuck if they put me in charge.

Our poor exams lady gets shafted with crap but she'd say no to this.

Thanks Staff !

I wish they were still publishing minutes from the SAGE meetings. Didn’t they publish at least one, right at the beginning? Sigh.