The Forty Sixth Republic - online learning has killed the 'snow day'

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Am so fed up of the BBC speaking of 'home schooling' as if it is some form of Chinese water torture that we are venomously imposing on innocent parents.

Also just got annoyed by Kevan Collins talking about the importance of competitive sport. Some kids hate that Kev! If they like it, they d it out of school, which presumably will return.

As someone said on Twitter, if I had known they were going to put us all in detention when we returned , I wouldn't have been working my arse off for the last six weeks.

A sensible head on BBC now.

Oh God, now Halfon is on.

Also just got annoyed by Kevan Collins talking about the importance of competitive sport

Agreed I’ve always hated sport and still do. I would have been far happier if the school had some PE lessons that involved exercise instead of sport.

That was a very dramatic post sorry! But I do need to sort this out with the Gp.

Will someone please mention the study that found wellbeing had not suffered???

Halfon is just using this as an opportunity to praise academy chains.

JFC.

Same as lockdown one. Worked 1.5 x my normal hours and wouldn't have done that if I'd known my "punishment" was going to be the general public delighting in how unsafe my working conditions would be from Sept-Dec and that I'd not be able to see my husband from Sept until 3 weeks after he's had his vaccine.

I'm going to listen to R4 again. It's feeding time at the zoo. Number 2 screams at number 1 till fully fed. I feel like I'm missing a lot of really important stuff this morning!

Yeah, I hated PE with an absolute full body dress. Some people hate drama or art or maths equally.

Some people hate the social side of school because it's so fake and your actual real friends aren't there, they're at your guide group, or down the stables, or they're your cousins, or two years older than you.

Not. Everyone. Is. The. Same.

Dread! Not dress.

Teachers could be offered the vaccine if they agree to summer schools.

Wasn’t everyone over 50 supposed to be vaccinated by May or something? And what teacher would be remotely interested in being vaccinated under those conditions having been in school as normal for a term or so anyway?
What a bunch of dim witted, coercive nincompoops these people are.

Halfon also keeps saying teachers won't 'necessarily' do these things 'if they don't want to'.

Back to virtue and martyrdom.

No, Robert, we don't 'know' half the stuff about loss of earnings and wellbeing you say we know.

Also just got annoyed by Kevan Collins talking about the importance of competitive sport.

I heard something on I think Inside Health saying that though boys’ competitive sport had suffered, girls were taking up exercise they actually enjoyed and consequently doing more of it. I’ll try to find it.

I liked 'full body dress' better. If I could have covered myself in baggy clothing from top to toe I would have preferred PE.

I read that too born.

The whole sport thing feeds into general Tory/New Labour thinking.

@borntobequiet

Teachers could be offered the vaccine if they agree to summer schools.

Wasn’t everyone over 50 supposed to be vaccinated by May or something? And what teacher would be remotely interested in being vaccinated under those conditions having been in school as normal for a term or so anyway?
What a bunch of dim witted, coercive nincompoops these people are.

Exactly! So the rest of us who are under 50 can just ‘step up’ and do our bit from March-July crammed in classrooms with 30 others, unvaccinated and with masks banned, whilst being simultaneously vilified in the press (has anyone read that vile article this morning by Laura Petrine?!) for being lazy, but we’ll get the sweetener of a vaccine if we will do it for two extra weeks by in August?

I can feel all the old stresses bubbling up again-I think I’ve felt calmer over the last couple of weeks.

Meanwhile-in other news, our link speech and language therapist (who hasn’t seen a child in person since March) has just been vaccinated.

I hated competitive sports-PE in the 80/90s made me utterly miserable.

Teachers could be offered the vaccine if they agree to summer schools

Well this is nasty isn’t it?

If you don’t agree to a change in your working conditions we’ll send you into risky situations unprotected?

Like saying to a firefighter we won’t give you breathing apparatus to wear when fighting fires unless you agree to a pay cut.

Safety equipment shouldn’t be dangled like a carrot, it should be a basic expectation.

I liked 'full body dress' better. If I could have covered myself in baggy clothing from top to toe I would have preferred PE

The gym knickers. Oh the horror. At least the PE seems better these days.

Teachers over 50 (and those in some UHC categories) look set to be working March til May unprotecting tbf.

Another teaching headline another few days that every fooker has an opinion. The ignorance should not surprise me. There was just a dentist on LBC saying teachers need to step up as she is working Saturdays. My eyes rolled so far back in my head I could see my cerebellum.

@Piggywaspushed

Teachers over 50 (and those in some UHC categories) look set to be working March til May unprotecting tbf.

Yep and that's either an unacceptable risk, in which case we should be vaccinated, or it's an acceptable risk.

It shouldn't be an unacceptable risk but in order to 'win' the vaccine we need to do something the government wants us to do.

Who said that about vaccines for summer schools?

What? Halfon on R4 again this morning? Why? He was on yesterday too?
Is he the only politician capable of speech?

Who said that about vaccines for summer schools

I heard it on Radio 4 this morning. I’m starting to doubt myself now.

What they need to mention is actually paying people to deliver these lessons.

I actually think an extended school day, with the end of the day dedicated to art, drama, music and physical education could be really good. But it would have to be delivered by none teachers and would cost a fortune.

Considering how they've decimated the arts with Brexit, and are refusing to compensate them as part of covid emergency funding, I can't see this government agreeing to fund the plebs doing painting or recorder practice!

Teachers could be offered the vaccine if they agree to summer schools. I didn’t hear any mention of being paid for summer school.

Hahahahaaaaaa. Seriously.

Crazier blather every day. No way could they do that. It's like baiting teachers and unions has become a new national sport.

When do they next update about schools? Was it February 22nd or did I dream that?