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

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OMFG I've just caught up on the invictus Williamson us for them absolute fucking pile of shite on here snd twitter.

Gavin surely can't remain after that???

There needs to be a bloody inquiry into all of that.

@Appuskidu

Comedy news comment from Sky today...

Yep that sums him up.

Battered by Piers Morgan one day and sidelined by Sky another. Dead man walking

I've signed up for it too @TheHoneyBadger.

I’m rather intrigued by the NEU build up!

I thought Mary Bousted said something last week about them writing a new plan for school reopening-could it just be that?

Masks
Rotas
Vaccines
?!

Also, sorry if this is late, this:

Darren Grimes pushing Invicta saying it’s a lesson to teaching unions pushing to delay the re-opening of schools.

Not entirely clear what the message is. If schools stay shut we will set up a small scale tutoring agency and make some money?

Which, despite being horribly sad, also to me indicates that an awful lot of teaching staff have contracted Covid. And many will have had substantial time off sick if not had long Covid.

I'd forgotten about the parent army! I was hoping they'd come and sort my "to be filed" pile.

@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/WN]]ySeXFgtmSy-gVSS_qNO2TpA

I have registered for this

Wow! Who are all these people over 64?

Who is Darren Grimes???

So why did the ONS cut off at 64? Why ‘working age’ and not actually ‘in work’?

Table 10 details an awful lot more deaths of nurses and other occupations as well as teachers.

That exclusion of those over 64 and working is scandalous ...HUGE numbers of shopkeepers over 64 dies and a ridiculously large number of mechanical engineers and nurses. The number of teachers who died is quite stark.

@Piggywaspushed

Who is Darren Grimes???

A gobshite.

You may remember the political campaign funding scandal during Brexit when Vote Leave was breaking spending rules by farming out campaigning to supposedly independent groups?

Darren Grimes was the leader of BeLeave, the ‘youths for Brexit’ group that got dropped in it.

So more Us4Them and Brexit links.

Ah. I don't really follow the Brexit mob...

I suspect that he is less Brexit and more follow the money.

OK, who's been shopping at Amazon then?

Shame on you.

Not surprised there’s a crossover between Brexit and lockdown scepticism.

Darren Grimes should be a nobody. He's one of those wheeled on with no life or subject experience, to discuss a variety of things for balance on the BBC. He's lightweight, but dangerous. He had to delete Trump tweets when the capitol stuff was going on. Which sums it up.

Wow! Who are all these people over 64?

People like me, perhaps? Retired from secondary, love teaching, part-time in FE, age 67.

In my school we've got a surprising number of TAs who were teachers, retired, got bored, and came back as TAs.

There are many older Supply teachers. Many are retired and working to add to pension or to keep teaching.

We’ve got quite a few TAs over 64.
Where is the data for other schools staff? Who just teachers? Why just under 63?!

Teaching assistants are on there.

My Head mentioned this morning that a Union is putting forward a plan to get all school staff vaccinated in a very short space of time. Maybe the announcement is to do with that?