The Thirty-eight republic - Covid Carnage - Schools still waiting for test kits

[SantaAssociationRepresentitve]

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

Sad times... our midnight visitor has been sent to the PRU

Also HCPs are frequently married to HCPs

They would be able to access KW places then?

I wonder if they’re just too bogged down in the horror of their own jobs.

@MrsHamlet

It read a bit like a year 9 lesson with that one annoying kid. Teacher: so we know that Shakespeare wrote plays for the masses Kid: is he dead miss? Me: well since it's 2020 and he was alive in the 1500s, yes. Anyway, Janes I wrote a book about witches Kid: James is in the other class miss Me: hmmm... as I was saying... so let's have a look at act 1 scene 1 Kid: miss it's not in English

I have one in my big year 9 class class and two in my smaller one (though one of those is doing it for effect). Sometimes they annoy me so much I get a head ache.

@Jinglingmod

Yes, there has been a gradual (almost gaslight-y) change in the way that numerous epidemiologists/doctors/PH specialists have started to say "obviously there is a lot of transmission in schools" or "secondary AND primary aged children are the most affected age groups"... As if they have been saying this all along (they haven't)...

They haven't but there is one group of people who have said those things all along and been branded as lazy, moronic, idiotic, nasty, hateful, etc. only for their predictions to come true.

@MsAwesomeDragon

Ophelia that sounds so tough for you and your dh. Wfh is really difficult for anyone who likes people (my dh loves it, because he doesn't like people). And I have huge sympathy for your arthritis, pain makes everything in life more difficult. I have nothing to suggest, just

That was an interesting visitor in the middle of the night.

Thank you. We'll manage

Ok though I think I'm lost... Who's visited who in the middle of the night? Have we been infiltrated? Was there teacher bashing..
In the staffroom?

This cannot be? What's occured!

Good morning enemies of education. How are your children-hating skills coming on?

Our intruder has had all of their posts deleted - I'm sure I wasn't the only one who reported them and I'm glad MN has taken action. Sent to the PRU indeed.

Thanks for the new thread. I’m stressing about setting lessons for this week.

I hate plenty of children salty. Some more than others. I'm well on my way to being a true enemy of education 🤣

I have been reading some people saying that they wanting all children to come in for SOME face to face input on a rota basis (funny, as they weren’t so popular a few months back).

Maybe unions should suggest that schools can increase pupil numbers back in class on x date, and will take in those pupils prepared to wear a mask 100%, first.

If primary schools are off my head is going to have to be a lot more flexible.

Current expectation is that all staff are in and teaching live on Teams from their rooms everyday.

If primary kids are off that will need a massive rethink.

Ophelia I have no advice. Only to say my DH is also finding WFH tough. He is not an actively social person (I arrange most social activities) but this year has hit him hard. Lots of his friends have moved away from our town just before covid which hasn't helped.
Like you say, you know you will cope with whatever happens. We cope because we have to for the kids. But it doesn't make it any easier

That is a very good point. If the initial closures last longer than the planned period, I imagine we will see some parents (especially those who don't qualify for KW places) clamouring for "even part time."

@Iamnotthe1

Our intruder has had all of their posts deleted - I'm sure I wasn't the only one who reported them and I'm glad MN has taken action. Sent to the PRU indeed.

Sent to the PRU? So us sen lot have to deal with em? Oh my! But it's Saturday and the holidays - no behaviour management for me today!

I can't remember what we studied at GCSE - could it have been Anthony and Cleopatra?

A level Eng Lit we did The Rainbow, Canterbury Tales.. cant remember. Wrote my extended essay about Hemingway's war novels.

I teach the Shakespeare stories to year 3 and 4, and my child (year 1), loves MSND, MacBeth and Taming of the Shrew. She knows The Tempest from CBeebies.

@Hercwasonasnowball

Ophelia I have no advice. Only to say my DH is also finding WFH tough. He is not an actively social person (I arrange most social activities) but this year has hit him hard. Lots of his friends have moved away from our town just before covid which hasn't helped. Like you say, you know you will cope with whatever happens. We cope because we have to for the kids. But it doesn't make it any easier

Yes that's what's happened here. We moved two years before the pandemic but my DH was still commuting to work and then would see colleagues and then also friends after work before then commuting home. He'd / we'd also go for weekends away with friends so there was that too which doesn't happen now. I've made good friends where we live now as I was a SAHM when we moved so for me it hadn't been as difficult as I have local people I can see when it's permitted but he only knows one ez colleague here (who he does see) and then one family and we are all friends together. But it's very hard for him, I do worry

The boiler has broken in this PRU, sorry no admittance today.

There are so many hpcs around my son's school that they limited KW places to only those who had both parents with KW status initially. Which was tough to say the least!

I’m surprised MnHQ didn’t just recommend we give them a visual timetable and regular Brain Breaks outside.

I reported them too. An arsehole thing to do - them i mean.

I really must go to bed earlier tonight otherwise the Sunday night dread insomnia will be awful.

Morning all!

Don't look at the time. Bus was late
I can see I missed all the fun by being asleep. Probably just as well, as I might have ended up with another detention. Interesting that the interloper fulfilled the criterion of having an 80- something number in their username. Surprising, because I doubt they could count up that far.

In a sentence what did they do?

@Saucery

I’m surprised MnHQ didn’t just recommend we give them a visual timetable and regular Brain Breaks outside.

Or mindfulness sessions.

I studied lord of the flies, Macbeth and the crucible at GCSE. I really enjoyed the crucible, and lord of the flies, but by the end of year 11 I couldn't bear to look at them again for quite some time. I read a lot as a child, and read a lot of classics at secondary school. I think I read most of Shakespeare's plays in years 7&8, because I really enjoyed them (I was a strange child!!). I read quite a lot of Dickens too. Then I set myself a challenge to "read the library" (as I said, I was a strange child!) I didn't get very far, I got to Richard Adams watership down, which I find incredibly boring so I stopped. Probably a good thing that I stopped there, it was a weird thing to be doing.

Anyway, I have registered for the NEU national webinar tomorrow morning at 11am (did the local one on Thursday). I've had a message to say we can submit questions for discussion.
Don't know where to start! Any suggestions? I would quite like to know if @SantaAssociationRepresentative's HT's request from the DfE to lie to parents about 98% efficacy of the LF tests is widespread, but not sure if it would be the most important thing.

@OpheliasCrayon

In a sentence what did they do?

Join, start posting about the selfishness of teachers and start up an AIBU? thread then deregistered.

Clearly troll-like behaviour and so MN deleted everything they ever posted and closed their AIBU? thread.