THE FIFIETH REPUBLIC!

[StaffRepFeistyClub]

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If you are NOT staff and just have a general education query please start your own thread.

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Sounds nasty @TheMoth .

When was thread 1, I was trying to think last night? Not sure if I'd discovered you crazy wonderful lot at that point. I know I lurked for a while before posting as "not a teacher"!

So, what exactly is going to be different in our schools from March 8th?
No improved ventilation.
No vaccines for staff.
No rotas/reduced numbers.
No social distancing.
No effective testing.
No masks.

It's literally "everybody back on the bus" as before and ffs stop whining about it.

I assume there is going to be absolutely nothing different in Primaries

Just abandon visors on their own cos they are shit and useless. That is the only change for us.

Our school (primary) had masks for adults in communal areas already, except for medical exemptions obviously. I don't see anything different for us.

NEU have sent out invites to a 5pm zoom call on Monday.

I think it'll be tight for me to make it, but will be interesting to see what they say.

They are urging reps to meet with heads to push for a staggered return etc.

I think there's little they can do in the next week and a half that will have an actual impact though?

50th?! Thanks staff.

Omg look at this!

@SansaSnark

NEU have sent out invites to a 5pm zoom call on Monday.

I think it'll be tight for me to make it, but will be interesting to see what they say.

They are urging reps to meet with heads to push for a staggered return etc.

I think there's little they can do in the next week and a half that will have an actual impact though?

Staggered starts isn’t going to happen now though, is it .

I just (very) selfishly want to be vaccinated if I’ve got to go back with no risk mitigation whatsoever.

I wonder how pissed off the parents will be when they have their kids home again because ‘bubbles’ are popping left right and centre just like during Autumn 2!

Literally no change in primary as far as my school is concerned.

Yep. Deffo feels like back EXACTLY the same as before. My head doesn’t like wearing a mask, but equally doesn’t teach and rarely needs to be in a corridor. We will deffo go down the ‘we can’t enforce it so let’s not even bother trying route FFS’.

Do any of you work in schools that run iPad/laptop/chrome book schemes at all? Or know anyone that does and might allow me to ask them about it?

@MrsHamlet thanks for sending me in the right direction... I’d have been rattling around that broom cupboard on my own 🤣🤣🤣

Hi MrsHP
We talked about vaccines again today in our union meeting. NAS are getting nowhere.

Interesting, Warrior. Karam Bales of the NEU tweeted the other day that a 'campaign group for no safety measures in schools' tried to ruin his life with formal complaints.

It really is scandalous that any worker who works in a room full of lots of people is not being vaccinated. Teachers, supermarket or police. It's basic manners!

I'm not going on any threads about vaccines again, seems to be the latest way to bash.

I actually think this is the only safe space on MN.

@noblegiraffe

Interesting, Warrior. Karam Bales of the NEU tweeted the other day that a 'campaign group for no safety measures in schools' tried to ruin his life with formal complaints.

Yes interesting!

Reading her paper, there's no difference between children and adults. Studies were done when they were shielding. Kids don't get as ill so weren't in hospital and getting tested there, as early on in the pandemic.

Also, OMG, watch Mary on here! It's a wonder she didn't swear at him, and nice telling off when he kept interrupting (after all, she'll have had the practice!)

"Don't mansplain to me!"

twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1364717183947993088?s=21

If you have it, how are you coping with growing anxiety? I feel like an elastic band ready to ‘ping’.

Other than pictures of Cillian🙂

Can Mary, Jackie Weaver and Noble run the country for a week, please?

Do any of you work in schools that run iPad/laptop/chrome book schemes at all? Or know anyone that does and might allow me to ask them about it?

I do

Has anyone heard from Piggy? Hope she is ok.

extend the working day - how dare he. Just because school finish at 3.30 does not mean my job is done ffs

Gravedigger are getting vaccinated. And undertakers. I get that they're kw, but they're not exactly sociable jobs. Well, apart from the cheeky ones Mrs Hamlet presumably knows.

@TheMoth

Gravedigger are getting vaccinated. And undertakers. I get that they're kw, but they're not exactly sociable jobs. Well, apart from the cheeky ones Mrs Hamlet presumably knows.

Gravediggers?

Weird. I think the reason they aren’t vaccinating people who come into close contact with others is that there are simply shit loads of people.

Police, shop staff, food production & teachers should all be vaccinated. But that’s so many people it’s too overwhelming for the government to tackle.

Probably not all that many undertakers and gravediggers.