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The Forty - Eight Republic - countdown for DfE media agency to wake up

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StaffRepFeistyClub · 18/02/2021 01:48

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

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ChloeDecker · 19/02/2021 23:36

We got called minions. Is that new? Fairly insulting but hey ho.

Minions (the cartoons) rock! It’s like the new boffins.

chocolateisavegetable · 19/02/2021 23:36

We got called minions. Is that new? Fairly insulting but hey ho.

I love the Despicable Me films, so I was actually pretty happy with that.

MrsHamlet · 19/02/2021 23:36

Well, one meaning of minion is sexual plaything....

TheHoneyBadger · 19/02/2021 23:37

You got 1000 Chocolate. Good work.

CallmeAngelina · 19/02/2021 23:38

Great conclusion.

ChloeDecker · 19/02/2021 23:39

@MrsHamlet

Well, one meaning of minion is sexual plaything....
noble will be pleased!
chocolateisavegetable · 19/02/2021 23:39

@TheHoneyBadger

You got 1000 Chocolate. Good work.
Do I get a badge?
noblegiraffe · 20/02/2021 00:26

Archers and lemonade was my drink of choice

Omg MsAwesome you are me. I still buy the occasional can of ready-mixed Archers and lemonade.

And Reef! It was so sticky and sweet but had to make do with it if the bar didn’t sell Barcardi Breezers (peach for preference).

I had an ex who managed a gold mine in Tajikistan.

Well Honey is literally the coolest person ever. I had an ex who...no, I’ve got nothing.

Well, one meaning of minion is sexual plaything....

Can we please go back to when you were acolytes? Blush

noblegiraffe · 20/02/2021 00:27

Btw like 10 hours to 1000 posts is definitely a new record. I missed the end!

motherrunner · 20/02/2021 06:22

Morning all.

Holy moly @noblegiraffe, your thread went absolutely bat shit! I would have laughed my way through except for the fact this is our working life.

Piggywaspushed · 20/02/2021 07:58

It's back to that feeling before Monday, isn't it, of having the weight of the world on our shoulders? Schools seems to be emblematic of the whole polarised debates and teachers are in the eye of the storm. We are held morally responsible for the journey-or not- out of lockdown. the DfE lurkers must be pissing themselves with joy seeing women with children back to 80s style accusing unions of Marxism and telling teachers to be martyrs. James O'Brien needs to do another programme about how women ahve turned on women and public sector workers have turned on each other.

Jesus, anyone would think teachers invented covid to get out of a bit of work.

I know teaching is a job with heavy responsibility but it is NOT our responsibility to end lockdown, heal harm, solve domestic abuse, poverty, starvation.

Lost learning is even debatable .

The government must LOVE it that the upcoming economic downturn can be blamed on school closures and that the bleak future for some uni and school leavers can be blamed on covid : not Brexit. No no nothing to see there.

WhenSheWasBad · 20/02/2021 08:00

Noble, when are you going to start a thread on a truly important issue? When hairdressers are reopening? Grin

In a few weeks I think might be so desperate I’ll let Dh have a go at my hair.

Piggywaspushed · 20/02/2021 08:06

I have not had my hair cut since 2019...

Managed to savage DH's this week.

motherrunner · 20/02/2021 08:13

DD and I had our haircut last summer. Couldn’t go Oct half term or Christmas as isolating. Can’t even remember if hairdressers had opened up at Christmas tbh!

DH shaves his own hair (hasn’t got much anyway) and he’s been shaving DS’ so he’s been looking a bit like a thug for the past month.

RandomGrammarPun · 20/02/2021 08:24

Between Nov lockdown and Jan lockdown was tiers, wasn't it? More ppl were in tier 4 than not, so no hairdressers since October in most places?

I dunno. Just feels like proper lockdown since September since you don't do anything in termtime if you work in a school, anyway! The only thing some colleagues do that I don't is use a gym which have been open and shut all over the place.

SmileEachDay · 20/02/2021 08:42

The “schools must open” crew haven’t moved their arguments on at all, have they?

A lot of it very personal re noble also. Quite stalky.

CarrieBlue · 20/02/2021 08:54

I was due to have m hair cut a week after lockdown 1 started. I then managed to get it cut and coloured in August and late September. Lockdown 2 happened so I missed one appointment but I had a cut mid December but I was booked for the day after this lockdown started. I have quite short hair usually - I’m contemplating hair bands from now til the hairdressers reopen to hide the mess my hair has now become. (It felt far less dangerous in my hairdressers than in the classroom, only those being seen were in, everyone in masks, no magazines or coffee - 6 people in a room the size of my classroom, no one face to face)

HercwasanEnemyofEducation · 20/02/2021 09:00

I'm sporting a post baby mullet which really needs a trim but I'll cope. DS had his cut in December but now looks like a Gallagher brother again.

Monkeytennis97 · 20/02/2021 09:05

@Piggywaspushed

I have not had my hair cut since 2019...

Managed to savage DH's this week.

I've not had mine cut since 2017!
RandomGrammarPun · 20/02/2021 09:07

Well ove just been accused of having an agenda, by entering into a discussion in entirely good faith.

I think those ppl will find it's them with the agenda... Dismissing everyone who has died if young as "probably obese" is wicked, isn't it?

Monkeytennis97 · 20/02/2021 09:11

@RandomGrammarPun totally agree.

SaltyAF · 20/02/2021 09:20

@RandomGrammarPun

Well ove just been accused of having an agenda, by entering into a discussion in entirely good faith.

I think those ppl will find it's them with the agenda... Dismissing everyone who has died if young as "probably obese" is wicked, isn't it?

Well that's me some for then, and it'll all be my own fault.

I've really not looked at much schools-based news in a while. Is there any truth in the articles that claim the summer term will be extended by two weeks?

MsAwesomeDragon · 20/02/2021 09:21

I'm obese (I was just overweight at Christmas but have gained half a stone since then). And diabetic. I don't want to catch it. Yet it seems like I don't count to those people. It would be fine for me to be in ICU because my health conditions are "self inflicted".

RandomGrammarPun · 20/02/2021 09:27

Yes, all of those of us who are overweight or obese, it's our fault.

Diabetic type 1? Not your fault, but.. Erm, underlying health condition, innit? What can you do? Not my circus, not my monkeys. People are wicked and selfish.

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