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The Fifty Seventh Republic - the joy of bank holiday marking

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StaffRepFeistyClub · 03/05/2021 09:57

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.

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Mistressinthetulips · 08/05/2021 20:18

I haven't sworn at anyone for months but if I stay too long on another thread it's going to be inevitable. Hmm
Noble maybe you had antibodies - wasn't the MMR booster the one where you were given a strange multiple prick test thingy first?

JanFebAnyMonth · 08/05/2021 20:18

It kind of is seen as the school’s fault though, isn’t it.

Piggywaspushed · 08/05/2021 20:21

Omerta = code of silence...

hedgehogger1 · 08/05/2021 20:25

My school is getting rid of year 11 and 13 in a week. They are going to be doing online courses instead of coming in

noblegiraffe · 08/05/2021 20:27

MMR wasn't introduced til 1988, Mistress. I definitely had rubella separately at secondary school and I imagine I had whatever separate measles/mumps vaccines were going (my mum would have made sure of it!) but we moved around a lot so the records probably got lost somewhere.

MrsHamlet · 08/05/2021 20:28

When I went to get my last holiday jabs, they discovered I'd missed something as a child so I got it then too. That was a sore arm day.

noblegiraffe · 08/05/2021 20:28

@JanFebAnyMonth

It kind of is seen as the school’s fault though, isn’t it.
Well from reading the 100 cases school thread, it's the fault of poor people up north who probably weren't complying with LFTs or masks.

Not the contagious airborne virus. That doesn't spread in schools so can't be to blame.

Piggywaspushed · 08/05/2021 20:29

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RigaBalsam · 08/05/2021 20:31

@hedgehogger1

My school is getting rid of year 11 and 13 in a week. They are going to be doing online courses instead of coming in
A week wow. I think my LA has agreed half term but school still won't admit it. ( they save incase the government change it)
Piggywaspushed · 08/05/2021 20:31

MN has become very right wing/anti vax/ even more Londoncentric.

I can't believe so many women think like that.

There were some interesting views on why Labour are doing so badly this morning on the site. Total blinkers on. Total belief their issues are widespread issues.

noblegiraffe · 08/05/2021 20:33

But the alternative is marking my A-level papers, piggy.

I think the bit I hate most about marking is when you mark a 'borderline' question up then think 'shit there was a previous answer like this and I think I marked that one down', and have to hunt back through the papers to check. Or when you look at the markscheme and have a rethink about what counts, then have to remark.

RigaBalsam · 08/05/2021 20:33

@Piggywaspushed

MN has become very right wing/anti vax/ even more Londoncentric.

I can't believe so many women think like that.

There were some interesting views on why Labour are doing so badly this morning on the site. Total blinkers on. Total belief their issues are widespread issues.

I am disgusted with Hartlepool. Just up the road from me. From what I gather it's Brexit, the vaccine and Keir.

Refraining from the monkey hangers analogy.

JanFebAnyMonth · 08/05/2021 20:34

(Having Covid, I mean, not specifically the Indian variant although I’d guess that could get quite racist too....)

RigaBalsam · 08/05/2021 20:35

@noblegiraffe

But the alternative is marking my A-level papers, piggy.

I think the bit I hate most about marking is when you mark a 'borderline' question up then think 'shit there was a previous answer like this and I think I marked that one down', and have to hunt back through the papers to check. Or when you look at the markscheme and have a rethink about what counts, then have to remark.

Drives me insane. Its like remarking it all again. Also the trickle effect. You think you are done but about six kids are absent so they slowly trickle in having to mark each paper separately.
MrsHamlet · 08/05/2021 20:35

Yep noble
I'm 46 essays into my pile of 54 and my eyes are bleeding. Arguing online is much more fun than reading about travelling (and not getting bloody paid for it even though it's a bastarding exam)

Piggywaspushed · 08/05/2021 20:40

I don't think it is Keir : most on the doorstep mentioned the vaccine. But the Hartlepool mayor (Tory) is popular and has done some genuinely good things. It sounds like the Lab candidate was awful too.

noblegiraffe · 08/05/2021 20:40

From what I gather it's Brexit, the vaccine and Keir.

Really interesting discussions going on on twitter about home ownership, degree-level education and whether people in the region are leaving to live in London, or leaving London to live there. There seems to be Tory councils falling to Labour unexpectedly as well as vice versa that correlate.

Check out ❤️ Sam Freedman ❤️ (I actually love him).

Piggywaspushed · 08/05/2021 20:41

I have an AS candidate who has literally scored a generous 25%. And I feel awful but he is virtually illiterate.

Last week the Autumn exams were announced as only having ASs in about 4 subjects so he can't even resit to have another bite/prove us wrong.

Piggywaspushed · 08/05/2021 20:43

Oh God, yeah, whoop whoop for Cambridge and Peterborough! One of the seats the Tories crowed about winning in the election was Pboro.

I heart Andy Burnham. But Sam Freedman's OK.

RigaBalsam · 08/05/2021 20:44

@Piggywaspushed

I don't think it is Keir : most on the doorstep mentioned the vaccine. But the Hartlepool mayor (Tory) is popular and has done some genuinely good things. It sounds like the Lab candidate was awful too.
A few of my friends from there aren't impressed wirh him. Anecdotal I know. To then vote Tory is extreme bit then thats the situation we are in. Ben Houchen had a lot of good publicity locally too. Ugh!
Piggywaspushed · 08/05/2021 20:44

I never thought I'd see the day when the Tories became the party of the North and Labour the party of the soft south....

Piggywaspushed · 08/05/2021 20:45

Noble do you know what Sam F's surgery was for? He was obviously v ill.

Piggywaspushed · 08/05/2021 20:47

Someone on N wrote that Keir was 'another human rights lawyer' with disdain.

a) why is that bad?
b) how is he 'another'??

Piggywaspushed · 08/05/2021 20:47

N= MN

noblegiraffe · 08/05/2021 20:47

It turns out that the real problem with Labour was Angela Rayner who has just been sacked as party chair and campaign co-ordinator. Shock

Keir can't sack her as deputy though, just like Corbyn couldn't sack Watson.