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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Resignation date is 28/2?

Delivery of 50,000 devices - liar!

Remote lessons for exam classes only means a full remote timetable for me from next week and full classes, full time the week after! Yay! Sounds totally sensible!

I think they might get a legal challenge to not providing any education to years 7-10 and 12 for a week.

Just dragged out when they could have just said "what we said before? Move it back a week. Job done"

What a tosser. I'd like to send him in to one of your schools for the month of January.

"Rates in childen are high because community rates are high". Tell me a group for whom that isn't true!!! Let me at him, let me at him.

for primary colleagues. Can’t actually believe they’ve done that after those god awful numbers.

Shit

@Piggyinblankets

I think they might get a legal challenge to not providing any education to years 7-10 and 12 for a week.

Absolutely. It's against the law that they themselves passed in October.

I feel like giving up - no extra measures in place to protect teachers or school staff despite the rocketing numbers each day

What a load of waffle

Gin for all

@Mrsbrownsgargoyle

"Rates in childen are high because community rates are high". Tell me a group for whom that isn't true!!! Let me at him, let me at him.

Our local rates are high entirely because of the school. Every case in our village could be linked back there"

Where the FUCK are the unions in this test not isolate business?

I am NOT consenting for LFTs for my DS. He hasn't been anywhere!

Gravity, yes, as well as planning the testing programme.

I'm just resigned to having a good rest when I become ill (assuming I'm not one of the unlucky ones).

I cannot believe this it’s an absolute joke. What even is the point of being in a union.

I've already set all of my remote lessons for years 7, 8, 9 for the first week - are they telling us not to bother educating them at all in the first week?

I. Simply. Have. No. Words.

Rates in childen are high because community rates are high

That was based entirely on the report from November which was many based on the old variant. New variant data is different, specifically because schools are openly mixing.

And the shadow Ed Sec can fuck off as well.

@Mrsbrownsgargoyle

"Rates in childen are high because community rates are high". Tell me a group for whom that isn't true!!! Let me at him, let me at him.

Exactly!

That statement wouldn't pass the comprehension skills of an age-related Year Six child but it will now be used across multiple platforms to excuse the fact I'll be working in close contact with 33 different bodies in my 6m by 8m room.

Are they saying that Y7-10 aren’t getting remote teaching next week?

Who is this new tosser?

I’m not listening to the statement...is there any leeway for heads to overrule the remote thing and ask students to come in? Because I’m pretty sure our SLT would do that, if they could.

Kate Green (shadow Education Secretary) is speaking a lot of sense here. How she’s managing not to swear, I don’t know.