The Forty Fourth Republic - primaries sort of in, secondaries out, Gormless Gav says two weeks notice

[Staffdontblowitnow]

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

Can't share stationEry items MrsH....

Damn. I'll have to bite it with my witchy teeth then

Why are you sharpening a stick at both ends MrsH??

Carrie great article - thanks for sharing

Monkey so pleased for you

It's not for you piggy. I can't read about your sad demise without a very unseemly gulping and sniffing.
I've been accused of being a cold hearted witch and a mercenary idiot for daring to suggest that the fact that it's a vocation means school staff get the piss taken.
Honestly.... year 9 have better insults

Goodness! I was born with an extra toe. I am a witch...

I was born on 31 October, apparently that makes me a witch.....

I'm working on getting my own Enemy of Education T-shirt....

Perhaps this?

That's brilliant!!! Can we get a set for the staffroom? ;)

How would we know whose was whose though.....

Hey that gives me an idea for if we ever met up in RL, we could each have a mug / naice brooch with our usernames on. I wouldn't cope otherwise!

Have also decided I would regret the amount of alcohol this occasion would inevitably involve.....

I notice that the usual 'my husband is a consultant' nonsense is fully back in the teacher threads now - disappeared for a few months there, but now we're back to being nowhere near as good as a man who is also just doing his job.

Lol, I'll have to shirted my name further to just trashed and fill it with gin.

I've literally just discovered how to do this:

5°C.

And œ.

Träshed.

Shorten.

Only 1.5 glasses of cava...?!

Apologies, all. I may have resorted to blowing my own trumpet a little loudly on that thread. I am, however, SICK of being denigrated.....

@TrashedWarrior

Lol, I'll have to shirted my name further to just trashed and fill it with gin.

I've literally just discovered how to do this:

5°C.

And œ.

Träshed.

How how how?

Just watched more of 'Ackley Bridge' with dd. The teachers in it break just about every safeguarding rule you can think of. And get away with it (so far).

Might I suggest that the enemies tour involves two nights away.... one to get mildly tipsy slaughtered and one to recover.

There's a real danger that would end up as two nights getting slaughtered though.

Lovely news, monkey.

Rafals, can't see where you're coming from myself.....

This is a good article (by a journalist who's a teacher's spouse), just a shame they get Gav's name wrong and use a pic with a masked teacher in front of a vast blackboard:

www.independent.co.uk/voices/teacher-coronavirus-school-safety-b1795126.html?fbclid=IwAR1ANj6PCq9wlPhPqe5_fexJdJXgm-7Wp2zJFUxp1p4ZPpFzibo3OEOZkRc

The government presiding over teacher-bashing as a national sport, consorting with fringe groups, and its unwillingness to listen to more sensible voices, including unions, is going to make a bad situation worse.

@JanuaryChill - I wasn't sure about Ackley Bridge. The storylines seemed ripped from other teacher series and they just happened so fast. Storylines came and went in a matter of minutes, it seemed!

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

There's a real danger that would end up as two nights getting slaughtered though.

Lovely news, monkey.

Such is life 🤷‍♀️

This is an amazing Twitter thread about transmission and schools, with analysis and data.

twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1346362159446577154?s=21

I don't think it will tell anyone here anything they don't know but it's just very good at pulling apart the grounds of false claims.

I'm sitting here, looking out of the window at a clear, blue morning and trying hard to imagine somewhere to walk to that will use it to its best. It's surprisingly hard.

Thanks to all commenting on the numbers thread.

The anti school data discussion rhetoric was quite offensive at times.

I cba due to fragile stress levels.