The Forty Third Republic - Lockdown learning continues - when is half term?

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Lol at the #reopenschools hashtag that’s trending on twitter. Looking at the top tweets for that I don’t think it’s going the way U4T wanted. 😂

Sorry, meant male!!

@Piggywaspushed

Not to be too ghoulish but it does look like deaths of female secondary teachers are quite a lot above average, which is not especially true of males, and not necessarily seen in other occupations.

That sort of makes sense. IIRC non-covid deaths in men are down. Whereas they aren’t upon women, or at least not as much. So an increase in covid deaths among men and women would probably raise the deaths further above average all cause rate in women than for men, where more of those deaths are replacing deaths that would have happened but haven’t.

I’ll take that whole post back then.

There were no school questions at the daily briefing which was not predicted by Sam Coates.

It's interesting to see where they're higher than normal rates too.

Anyone know what the big reveal might be here?

Tomorrow at 6pm the National Education Union will be making a major announcement. Join us for our Zoom broadcast that will reveal all. Click here to sign up:

https://neu-org-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WNySeXFgtmSy-gVSS_qNO2TpA

it does look like deaths of female secondary teachers are quite a lot above average

Yes, I thought that - just from the BBC article. Not much below the little league table they had going, which WAS ghoulish.

BBC News leading with schools. It's a sudden obsession today.

Only interested when we are 'closed' hey??

Sorry to go off topic....

We might have the budget for some graphics tablets for our department (maths) to work with our school laptop (Lenovo) on Teams. I know someone was recommending some many threads back, could I ask if those could recommend again?

As you were.

Beeb trotting out 'teachers no more likely to be infected' line.It's bollocks. The ONS should SO much more publicly reword that!!

@Piggywaspushed

Beeb trotting out 'teachers no more likely to be infected' line.It's bollocks. The ONS should SO much more publicly reword that!!

At least they looked at things other countries do which might be a good idea here! At long last people are interested in "noble's agenda"!

Yes PUAUS saying 'When will schools return?' is everywhere today. Could it be something to do with pressure some Tories are putting on Boris Johnson, we ask ourselves?

This is outing, but I've just spammed the UsForThem #reopenschools hashtag on Twitter with the byline report.

They are literally lobbying themselves.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot laughing at some of those replies. Love how they just ignore all the sensible replies and then when anyway agrees reply straight away all light and breezy. Restores faith in sensibility rather than than the ridiculous seen on MN.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

This is outing, but I've just spammed the UsForThem #reopenschools hashtag on Twitter with the byline report.

Good work Rule!

@Fossie

Sorry to go off topic....

We might have the budget for some graphics tablets for our department (maths) to work with our school laptop (Lenovo) on Teams. I know someone was recommending some many threads back, could I ask if those could recommend again?

As you were.

I have the xp-pen deco 1 (?) It's a little over A4 size so plenty of writing space. It was about £50 Our maths dept splurged on some others which I can't recall the name of but they're much smaller which makes writing on them tricky, I believe.

@JanuaryChill

It's interesting to see where they're higher than normal rates too.

Anyone know what the big reveal might be here?

Tomorrow at 6pm the National Education Union will be making a major announcement. Join us for our Zoom broadcast that will reveal all. Click here to sign up:

https://neu-org-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WNySeXFgtmSy-gVSS_qNO2TpA

It must be something about on-line provision, live on-line teaching, surely?

No idea what, though.

twitter.com/teachertoolkit/status/1353774973295464448?s=21

Analysis of the reopen schools hashtag shows that the byline times article was one of the most linked to articles on it. Good work spammers!

Maybe a campaign with Marcus Rashford about inequality?

In my area, there have been initiatives to get pens, paper and laptops out to pupils.

It's beyond aggravating that this is what people, not the government, are doing.

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@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

This is outing, but I've just spammed the UsForThem #reopenschools hashtag on Twitter with the byline report.

Lol. I was just considering doing that.

Rulewithawoodenfoot and noblegiraffe I've read-tweeted that article, too, with the hashtag.

I'm so glad you made me aware of it.

The Daily Mail are running a campaign to get laptops to disadvantaged kids.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9177831/Daily-Mail-launches-new-drive-aid-Britains-children-struggling-lessons-home.html

Which is obviously great as they have quite a reach. The campaign has been backed by Gavin Williamson even though it basically says ‘you’ve done a shit job, Gav’,

It certainly does say that, noble.