The Forty Ninth Republic - Announcement Week - Roadmap and Exams - Be more Bob

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Perhaps he's working hard on the exams announcements coming shortly.

The new ofqual guy sounded pretty competent on the radio. You could almost hear his eyes roll when he said that the exams announcement would be joint with the DfE.

They said the number one thing was masks on that thread. Which isn't true : it was rotas.

That Drive and Listen thing looks awesome!

@JanFebAnyMonth

And as someone has pointed out on another thread, we have now got what we said we wanted, ie masks in classrooms.

(I know there's a lot more we wanted to, this was a minimum wasn't it?)

In Primary?

Gav really is AWOL these days isn't he?

No, he has been very busy, haven’t you seen? All the Free Speech laws around university thing that seems to be pretty redundant and more willy waving. Interesting that the free speech crowd have a massive crossover with the Great Barrington crowd and Us4Them-type anti lockdown groups.

That’s who Gav’s mates are.

I'm happy about the free speech thing if it means women are allowed to talk again...

True no masks in primaries, I apologise!

Just spotted this gem in the Guidance
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In exceptional circumstances, if parents or carers cannot arrange to have their child collected, if age-appropriate and safe to do so the child should walk, cycle or scoot home following a positive test result^

Oh the fun cartoonists could have with that one.

(Cos it's obviously a joke, right?)

Ok. Who did this?

The masks thing is an interesting one though isn't it? The BBC says some secondary schools, not all. I'm intrigued as to how that will pan out.

@piggywaspushed

They said the number one thing was masks on that thread. Which isn't true : it was rotas.

And primary is going back just as before! Grrrr

What happens if you don’t want your child to be tested? Are they not allowed to ever go to school again?

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

Ok. Who did this?

Excellent! Feel like this whole plan is very conveniently just in time for the May local elections.

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

Ok. Who did this?

OMG - that is fantastic

I think the guidance said that children who aren't tested just come back when the rest of their year group does.

What is bob, what have I missed?

@HercwasanEnemyofEducation

I think the guidance said that children who aren't tested just come back when the rest of their year group does.

Good, no detriment then

@RandomGrammarPun

I'm happy about the free speech thing if it means women are allowed to talk again...

Agree with you there, RandomGrammarPun.

@Cantaloupeisland

What is bob, what have I missed?

Mrshamlet's star pupil. Am sure she'll explain.

Ds won't be being tested. We'll happily do at home if/when allowed but it took him half an hour of psyching himself up to get it done last time -he's not going to be up for doing it in school. Nor am to be honest.

Haven't taken part with the lft's at all yet. Will happily do it at home myself but not in public.

@RandomGrammarPun

I'm happy about the free speech thing if it means women are allowed to talk again...

Probably not. The DfE couldn’t come up with any examples where it would have applied.

Still a bit baffled by the lft testing - say a positive turns up on the Monday in a year 11 student, surely then everyone who was on the bus with them and was in close contact with them at school before their test needs to isolate for 10 days. Therefore they could literally potentially be in school for an hour then immediately out for 10 days as a close contact. Can you imagine?

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

Ok. Who did this?

@TheHoneyBadger

Still a bit baffled by the lft testing - say a positive turns up on the Monday in a year 11 student, surely then everyone who was on the bus with them and was in close contact with them at school before their test needs to isolate for 10 days. Therefore they could literally potentially be in school for an hour then immediately out for 10 days as a close contact. Can you imagine?

You sound a bit like you’ve expected the government to have thought this plan through.



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