The Forty Second Republic - Lockdown 3 online learning struggles continue

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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

So sorry for your loss, January glad he went as peacefully as you could have hoped. Hopefully it’s a comfort that you saw him at Christmas and via FaceTime yesterday. Take care of yourself xxx

That’s sneaky, Salty. Forcing everyone into the lateral flow farce. Can you ask the school for a supply at home like NHS get? It seems weird that they would trust teachers to test kids but not themselves.

We are getting our supply for staff next week. They are to be done at home like the nhs.

@starrynight19

We are getting our supply for staff next week. They are to be done at home like the nhs.

Are these weekly random tests?

Are the school using them on KW children to replace SI?

So sorry for your loss January

Salty - that's wrong on 2 counts. 1. They should not be doing testing in place of isolating, 2 you should be able to do your own testing at home!

January so sorry for your loss . Make sure you take the time you need and we are all here for you.

January so sorry for your loss.

Think I can cope with a small screen, am used to things being small

Well done Honey! 💪

Thank you all.

Here we are - Austrian study since new variant shows pupils infected at same rate as adults in schools:
www.spiegel.de/international/germany/new-study-explores-risk-played-by-children-in-covid-spread-a-b0a90b6f-1d21-41e8-a2d0-13751aa3ce09

Concluding paragraph:
British epidemiologist Gurdasani also doesn't understand why, in the UK at least, new ideas to help children continue learning in the pandemic haven't long since been developed.

There haven’t been good plans for some time now for allowing children to continue learning, despite the virus. Her conclusion: "It is important that schools are made safer. Had this been done much earlier on, it's possible that school closures may not have been needed."

and a Rotterdam outbreak had 15% of a school community testing positive:
www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/new-coronavirus-variant-scrambles-school-risk-calculations

Unfortunately I think many SLTs will enjoy the heroics of keeping a school running though Covid times. Staff wellbeing won't be central to that.

So very sorry about your brother january

Interesting january

Sorry to hear your news

@JanuaryChill thinking of you and your DB. Love to you x

British epidemiologist Gurdasani also doesn't understand why, in the UK at least, new ideas to help children continue learning in the pandemic haven't long since been developed.

Quite. My DC's primary is still offering no teaching whatsoever. DS's 'learning' on Friday was a spelling worksheet, online maths game that they were told to do again if they already done them and 'genius hour' - open ended with no guidance. Meanwhile I am willingly and happily trying my utmost to keep my pupils learning the same content they would if they were in school, alongside my KW/V commitments. It's no wonder teachers' reputations are in tatters when there's that much variability.

I’m so sorry for your loss @JanuaryChill

Her conclusion: "It is important that schools are made safer. Had this been done much earlier on, it's possible that school closures may not have been needed.

Interesting that eminent scientists needed a zoom call to tell them what they could have learned ages ago if only they’d read Mumsnet.

Every bloody thing we said vindicated.

Interesting that in the Austrian study primary and secondary kids were infected at the same rate where secondary were way more infected here. Is it because we had no mitigation measures at secondary and they do?

So, are other schools not going ahead with serial testing to keep close contacts in at the moment?

@JanuaryChill

Thank you all.

Here we are - Austrian study since new variant shows pupils infected at same rate as adults in schools:
www.spiegel.de/international/germany/new-study-explores-risk-played-by-children-in-covid-spread-a-b0a90b6f-1d21-41e8-a2d0-13751aa3ce09

Concluding paragraph:
British epidemiologist Gurdasani also doesn't understand why, in the UK at least, new ideas to help children continue learning in the pandemic haven't long since been developed.

There haven’t been good plans for some time now for allowing children to continue learning, despite the virus. Her conclusion: "It is important that schools are made safer. Had this been done much earlier on, it's possible that school closures may not have been needed."

and a Rotterdam outbreak had 15% of a school community testing positive:
www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/new-coronavirus-variant-scrambles-school-risk-calculations

Reading stuff about other countries is interesting. They find a problem, tell people about it, get experts in to try to find out why it happened and discuss what could be done to fix it.

Our government are told about problems, ignore it until it becomes impossible to do so any more, lie about it, blame teachers and unions for it happening in the first place and our media follow suit, showing misleading photos of tiny class sizes all wearing masks!

Wait, I thought the teaching unions were uniquely militant??

www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/17/lecturers-warn-they-will-strike-if-forced-to-resume-unsafe-teaching?fbclid=IwAR3HiokXCyK1jdpGerJaBJp8FzUYlr0vSru-Up7yqMlpZ80hiAfdf0fA-fE

Also reported today in the ST that they don't know how many prison staff have died. It really is a scandal that occupational deaths are not being gathered. What is also a scandal is that the ST reports that but, if writing about teachers, reports the ONS findings with no apparent sense of scrutiny or irony.

Are they not collecting data about occupational cases/deaths or not reporting it?

If they’re not actually collecting it, how can they say that any occupation is more or less safe than another??

They FOI said they weren't collecting information about deaths.

The ONS data still isn't out. Do they not work weekends, the same way they didn't work over Christmas?

If they aren't collecting occupation data, then they definitely shouldn't be allowed to go on the news and refer to the totally out of date occupation data from May when talking about vaccinations.

Appuskidu just rolling them out for staff only as far as I am aware in primary.

@noblegiraffe

The ONS data still isn't out. Do they not work weekends, the same way they didn't work over Christmas?

If they aren't collecting occupation data, then they definitely shouldn't be allowed to go on the news and refer to the totally out of date occupation data from May when talking about vaccinations.

Definitely.

Why don’t any journalists ask questions like this?

Even a sniff of a piece of news suggesting schools might not be safe is just buried and never mentioned again.