The broom cupboard 3 - for briefly stranded republicans

[TheHoneyBadger]

First in tops up the gin supplies and turns on the tea urn.

Schools in Wales to be given air cleaning ozone machines, on R4 atm.

And now there’s a scientist saying there are better ways eg proper ventilation! Here’s the official announcement:
gov.wales/fresh-start-new-term-investment-help-improve-air-quality-schools-colleges-and-universities

He says CO2 monitoring important, but there was no mention of the fact that it requires action if levels are shown to be too high!

Hope everyone has had a lovely holiday. Anyone getting the back to school dreams? Not sleeping well as still have no idea how it's going to look in September.

Mine started last week eitak22- our brains cruel joke!

Now Gav has started to shift the blame on to parents and away from him, do you think we might start to see a change on the daft things posted Mumsnet from the permanently outraged at any form of mitigation?!

On second thoughts, probably not-some of the things that they have been writing on Rule’s thread shows there is nothing rational there

And to follow Gavin implying it’s ‘other people’s fault’, here we have Johnson doing the same:
inews.co.uk/opinion/boris-johnson-cheek-devon-cornwall-encouraging-covid-spread-1173952

I don’t know I don’t think there needs to be extra legislation for covid, but that’s not to say there shouldn’t be parental/dependency paid leave improved/as standard/legislated for. There are loads of parents who wouldn’t have anyone to look after their child if they had chickenpox for example - mine definitely wouldn’t have been able to go to childcare. At my school we get five days paid dependency leave, but I don’t know what is standard/legal …

I do take the point that some people might be able to have someone else look after their child for other things than covid though, but I still think lots wouldn’t have that option and therefore some kind of protection for parents/carers in that scenario in general would be good rather than only specially for covid if that makes sense?

Can't believe that plonker on twitter Struggling to believe he is actually a teacher anywhere!!

Who is back this week? I am back a week today - need to get organised for term starting!

@PumpkinPie2016

Can't believe that plonker on twitter Struggling to believe he is actually a teacher anywhere!!

Who is back this week? I am back a week today - need to get organised for term starting!

So glad he doesn’t teach at my school - somehow I doubt he teaches anywhere.

We’re back for INSET tomorrow. I’m in denial as we were late finishing. I know I used to get 5 weeks for the year in my last job but it feels like it’s been a very short summer.

somehow I doubt he teaches anywhere

This is what I was thinking-surely someone somewhere recognises him?!

We are back Wednesday this week-so not ready.

[quote JanglyBeads]And to follow Gavin implying it’s ‘other people’s fault’, here we have Johnson doing the same:
inews.co.uk/opinion/boris-johnson-cheek-devon-cornwall-encouraging-covid-spread-1173952[/quote]
He's been doing that all along. The September increase last year was blamed squarely on teenagers and young people mixing. The man is completely and utterly incapable of taking responsibility for anything, professionally or personally.

I can believe he’s a real teacher, just not one that is objective. Bet his head loves getting his emails. PITA, possibly narcissist.

On the plus side, can you imagine if he was still defence secretary?? Raab is bad enough.

Well, now....where to begin?

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/30/call-for-schools-across-europe-to-stay-open-and-be-made-safer-covid

Crikey Gav handling Afghanistan withdrawal, yes that is just a rirdiculous thought.

Wonder what his dancing’s like.
Gove seems to be getting vaguely admiring coverage for his “dad dancing”.

@eitak22 I am not back until a week today and had a back to school dream last week

I dreamt that I got up late on the INSET day and then couldn't get ready quickly as DS and DH were taking ages in the shower etc.

I haven't had my usual one yet. My usual dream is that I arrive to the first lesson with a class but I haven't made a seating plan or planned a lesson so all the kids behave really badly and it's basically chaos! No doubt I'll have that one this week!

Yes but I think the key difference is children with other illnesses are not legally mandated to isolate at home and they can't do that on their own. It's a pandemic and even healthy children who are not 'ill' in the usual sense of the word ie. having no symptoms will be mandated to isolate. I don't see this as being the same as usual childhood illness and childcare issues. It would be illegal to put that child into childcare and they are meant to stay at home.

It wasn't an issue last year because if your child was positive you too were legally mandated to isolate and therefore employers had some duty to work around that. Now that you don't have to isolate and are expected to still go to work there has to be something in place to deal with that. I do think it's exceptional circumstances and it should be government led rather than individual employees having to try and negotiate with individual employers.

5 days is very generous. We get one I believe.

I'm back on Wednesday but seem to be firmly in denial about it.

I dreamt I had my first lesson with Y7, they had nothing to write on, I couldn’t find any new exercise books, only those from last year’s Y9, and was getting increasingly flappy while Y7 looked at me like I was an idiot.

Which reminds me I need to stock my classroom. Thanks, dream.

Oh gosh Honey I hadn’t even thought that all through properly - the big difference that “household members don’t have to isolate” makes. I imagine govt will realise that in about three months. Possibly when a mother takes her employer to court for trying to make her work when her child is isolating.

Honey for Health Secretary /Work and Pensions Minister!

I can still remember my back to school nightmare from last year where the schools layout had changed entirely and I didn't have a timetable and there were no room numbers on doors anyway and then when I did find my classroom there were pillars all over so I couldn't actually see half the students and I had a panel of observers with clipboards. That was vivid.

Strangely I'm having vivid sex dreams now rather than anxiety ones Must've been Gove's dancing...

I'm sure it would suit them fine to have yet more 'economically inactive' women to massage the impending unemployment figures and free up space for men (not that they want most of the part time, shitly paid jobs that Mother's of young children are often forced to take even when overqualified).

Yes sorry for harping on about it but I can't believe there's nothing to account for the fact that a child can be legally made to isolate whilst their parents don't have to. I wonder if that's a deliberate move in not having household members isolate - employers have no obligation to work with you because legally you haven't got a leg to stand on now whereas before you were obeying the rules of track and trace.

Your harping on is utterly justified honey!

Thank you Jan. If the sun ever shines perhaps we should have another pub garden meet before we descend into darkness and covid restrictions which allegedly won't happen but I can't honestly see how they can be avoided with the plan as it stands.

I don't have any resources in my room - yet. The delivery was held up, so we have no exercise books, no pencils even. Let's hope it arrives tomorrow. Erk.

We have inset this Thursday and Friday, kids in from next Monday.

Im the big 40 tomorrow and Im struggling to get motivated to do any work!