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

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Swipe at the unions in there too, I notice.

Is this the week we are meant to be hearing about the results of the GCSE consultation as well. Hope it has been more thought out than the return to schools, but I very much doubt it.

U4T must be a little perplexed - children's "mental health" problems: all solved by the Great Return? No, they must be muzzled, clutchpearl, clutchpearl!

Face nappies! God forbid!

“The tests are voluntary and will operate "based on trust", officials said.
But it remains uncertain how parents will feel about carrying out the lateral flow tests, which are usually swab tests, taking a sample from the back of the throat and and from the nose.
Schools will continue to provide some testing facilities for those children whose parents might not be able to carry out testing.
When schools return face masks will be required in some secondary classrooms, where social distancing is not possible. But this is expected to be reviewed again during the Easter break.”

So actually it’s we say there’ll be extra measures, but not really.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-56153751

When schools return face masks will be required in some secondary classrooms, where social distancing is not possible

So virtually all secondary schools then? Well state schools anyway. Private schools are possibly a little different.

I read somewhere that there will be some "flexibility" to allow schools to test pupils.

I can't find it now.

But I suspect some parents will just send them in refusing a test.

The tests are unpleasant and their precious ones won’t like them so parents won’t do them. Waste of time even suggesting they can be done at home. This has come in as an afterthought to the schools doing them in December. Some bright spark realised they would not get an army of volunteers, as suggested then, to perform the and staff couldn’t teach and test at the same time. Result - let the parents do it, which we know they won’t. They won’t as they have been told every thing is safe now due to the vaccination programme.

God I hope this doesn’t all go tits up.

Vaccinated kids sat shoulder to shoulder. Mostly unvaccinated teachers moving from class to class. And everyone goes home to a mostly unvaccinated family.

Covid levels are not low by any stretch of the imagination. I can’t see how this is going to be ok.

Thank fuck my husbands vaccine should have kicked in by 8th March.

That is so so typical that mask thing : fudging and hedging everywhere.

It seems like totally fuckwittery to me to lay out plans like this and start promising that people can mix inside in May and be completely back to normal by June when they have absolutely no idea what impact sending 10 million children and hundreds of thousands of school staff back into the classroom at once will have?

It seems likely that a significant amount of the population won’t be vaccinated until July, does that not matter?!

Our LFT are going to be done at home, and obviously cannot be compulsory or request the result. I wonder will anyone do them? I heard so much about their ineffectiveness on here that I'm not sure I will myself, though I am in favour of regular testing.

Roadmap was meant to be data not dates!

@ItsIgginningtolooklikelockdown thanks for the rescue - I was going down the rabbit hole ! Although I did need a good rant. I'm going to get signed off with stress as I can't do this without a vaccine. I'll just cry all over the students. Now where's that 🍷

It didn't look like the best environment for anyone's mental well being, mumneedswine
Cheers

@ItsIgginningtolooklikelockdown

Our LFT are going to be done at home, and obviously cannot be compulsory or request the result. I wonder will anyone do them? I heard so much about their ineffectiveness on here that I'm not sure I will myself, though I am in favour of regular testing.

I do mine but the lack of accuracy and indeed monitoring of the process, is laughable. I’m basically shoving a thin cotton bud up my nose to show willing but not trusting the results one bit.

4 staff with stinking colds in today! But...but...but they did their LFTs last night so they must be just colds and not Covid. Give me fucking strength.

I wonder if they will still be able to prevent primary teachers or students wearing a mask in class

Primary teachers in local schools have been wearing masks

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We have been wearing masks in corridors in primary, but not whilst teaching.

Are teachers meant to wear a mask? We should but I’m going to need some sort of gym teacher set up.

What happens if a kid refuses to wear a mask? Suspended?

You know when you have a little catch up with your class about what they have done over a holiday?
Bloody hell, mine were Social Butterflies! Beach meet ups with friends (nearest beach 15 miles away), garden meet ups with cousins, cousins’ boyfriends and puppies. Building dens with their friends not in school. Sleepovers with friends not in school ffs.
Why am I bothering, I might as well go and lick the door plate of the main entrance to my nearest hospital!

I think the guidance said masks wouldn’t be needed for certain subjects-PE etc for example.

I'm going to go and visit my family on 7th March too.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

I'm going to go and visit my family on 7th March too.

I actually really want to see my parents before we all go back. Both me and my parents will have had first jab and be past three weeks then too...just outside but with a hug would be amazing.