The Thirty-seventh Republic - Mass testing rolls on - school staff remain expendable

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If you come with a stick to goad us then that is not allowed in the staffroom and you will receive a detention

Have a good evening, Honey.

Latest update from d f e

dfemedia.blog.gov.uk/2020/12/31/delayed-return-to-school-and-contingency-framework-your-questions-answered/?fbclid=IwAR3MSLjOPK1PaHwBk6j7_8hYdCfZX4ptw8w24fbPsXd0Ng7uASd_Pg5SLHU

10 years! FFS if you didn't laugh....

Our school will be paying nearly £10ph for people to work in the testing game and they will all be provided with full PPE and 2m distancing etc at all times. They will have to get DBS clearance though. Not sure how they can in 10 days but

No mention of staff helping in any way so now the funding has been agreed I presume it's going to be entirely outsourced.

We already have 15 yr olds working at lower primary level, don’t we? And not with any diagnosed additional needs, either. Nice to know someone has noticed them, right now, this minute.

Thanks Saucery. I'll probably be back once ds gets bored of me.

for all or if you don't partake.

Why does everyone pretend to be so fucking STUPID?! It gives me the absolute rage

@Saucery

We already have 15 yr olds working at lower primary level, don’t we? And not with any diagnosed additional needs, either. Nice to know someone has noticed them, right now, this minute.

We certainly do here.

I have kids in year 7 who literally cannot read or write this year. They were like that before remote learning though. They weren't working at degree level then got set back 10 years when schools went online in April.

Wow-10 years!

Ofsted inspectors will clearly be set back 40 then seeing as they’ve done fuck all since March.

OK. Something I don't understand.

In the rest of the country, if you are a close contact of someone who tests positive, you have to isolate. PCR testing negative doesn't get you out, and it is legally enforcable IIRC.

In schools, where T+T has delegated the job of tracing to school staff, nobody in school will isolate as a close contact of someone who tests positive (though I presume out of school contacts of the same child WILL have to isolate), and instead they will be tested multiple times using a test with a high false negative rate. What is the legal framework for that? As in, if isolating as a close contact is legally enforcable for out of school contacts of a case, why aren't the in-school contacts legally required to isolate too?

Happy New Year all. Trying to step away from the news and all things school.

Fuck you 2020. And Gav

piggy stories like angry doctors rant make me feel even more frustrated.

Why doesn't he, link up his rant with the absolute insanity of forcing thousands of people to do the absolute opposite of what he's asking from next week?

Ridiculous articles or posters pleading with us to stay at home! The government isn't allowing it.

Love the shark meme, I hope someone tweeted that to Boris.

You’re only legally required to isolate if contacted by Test and Trace. No contact, no legal requirement.

At the moment an official letter from the school counts, I think.

Fuck you 2020. And Gav

Back to shagging Gav. @SmileEachDay will be happy.

@noblegiraffe

You’re only legally required to isolate if contacted by Test and Trace. No contact, no legal requirement.

At the moment an official letter from the school counts, I think.

Sorry, I should have made it clear I meant contacted by T&T.

So now the school official letter doesn't count for anything at all, as when T&T contact contacts out of school they must isolate, but contacts in school - and only in school - do not isolate? What about children who walk to school together - are they required to isolate, or not?

But they won’t be getting a school letter telling them to isolate.

Who knows how it will actually work. Does anyone trust the DfE to have planned in advance?

So that DfE bog states that Early Years remain open everywhere? So some primaries will just be open to their Reception class??

I'm thinking that because of school testing, parents will get confused, dc show symptoms and say... They will get their test at school...

Rather than stop them going in and taking them to off site place

@cantkeepawayforever

OK. Something I don't understand.

In the rest of the country, if you are a close contact of someone who tests positive, you have to isolate. PCR testing negative doesn't get you out, and it is legally enforcable IIRC.

In schools, where T+T has delegated the job of tracing to school staff, nobody in school will isolate as a close contact of someone who tests positive (though I presume out of school contacts of the same child WILL have to isolate), and instead they will be tested multiple times using a test with a high false negative rate. What is the legal framework for that? As in, if isolating as a close contact is legally enforcable for out of school contacts of a case, why aren't the in-school contacts legally required to isolate too?

And does the magic work outside the school building? In other words, are school age contacts of positive cases allowed to be out and about in public?

Ffs-why did I stray onto the Corona board-I’ll just get myself all worked up! Why can’t people see what a mess this LF testing in schools will be?

Is it too early for ?

I'd like to see a wave of heads starting to stand together to say they can't guarantee staff or pupil safety so they can't open.

PS I didn't get that angst re school from the mail article at all, it was focused on gov chaos.

From another thread, Haringey council is instructing primaries not to open despite not being on the list.

And does the magic work outside the school building? In other words, are school age contacts of positive cases allowed to be out and about in public?

Presumably so....

@Achristmaspudsskidu

Wow-10 years!

Ofsted inspectors will clearly be set back 40 then seeing as they’ve done fuck all since March.

now that gave me the laugh I very much needed Thankyou

@SaltyAF the training materials state that if you test negative with the LFTs in serial testing you can "go about your normal activities", so yes.

• Obviously I was referring in my post above to the DfE's blog, not their bog 🚽!