The Sixty-Second Republic - Pop da pop pop, the beat don't stop until the break of term

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People are going to start pulling kids out to avoid losing any of the school holidays I reckon

I suspect this will be the case.

I’ve got a holiday booked first week of hols (in U.K.). Really concerned on of the kids will have to self isolate over that holiday period.

I’ll still send them in obviously and just keep my fingers crossed.

WOOHOOOOO FINISHED MY EFFING REPORTS

It's like the end of Autumn 2 all over again, isn't it? Attendance is going to drop right down 10 days before the end of term. Can't blame them tbh.

well done @RuleWithAWoodenFoot

I agree attendance is starting to fall.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

WOOHOOOOO FINISHED MY EFFING REPORTS

. Such a good feeling!

Sorry Fawkes.

Have read scientists saying the last few weeks of term are going to be choppy in schools....

Oh silly me! The delta variant spreads in schools. All the previous various didn't spread in schools. So I guess some variants will spread in schools and some will not - glad that has been sorted

I think that is what I have been told on the data thread but I not sure .... quite frankly I am beyond caring.

Yes, that is what you were told.

It's all very 1984.

Well as we have said all along.

There will be swathes of mnetters who spend a good part of lockdown shouting down teachers and schools indulging in historical revisionism.

People are going to start pulling kids out to avoid losing any of the school holidays I reckon
If I was in their position and could do the same then I would.

Attendance is going to drop right down 10 days before the end of term.

I'd pay for some of mine to be off.

Evening all!

They're dropping like flies at my school too - no confirmed cases that I know of, but lots off with symptoms awaiting tests/results. We are also having a hard time convincing parents that they need to keep their coughing children home and get tests, and that the siblings of the coughing children shouldn't be in either. It's going to be a heck of a week.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

Attendance is going to drop right down 10 days before the end of term.

I'd pay for some of mine to be off.

But you know full well it's not going to be those children who are away, don't you??

They rarely came on my threads. When they did, I wasn't impressed. Confidently getting things wrong.

"An announcement is expected to be made in coming days to give schools time to prepare for the return in September, likely to be replaced with a testing regime.

A senior government source said: “We will have a different system when schools return in September which combines proportionate protections when someone tests positive with trying as much as possible to keep schools open.”"

www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jun/28/ministers-set-to-end-automatic-isolation-for-pupils-in-england

proportionate protections means??

[quote noblegiraffe]"An announcement is expected to be made in coming days to give schools time to prepare for the return in September, likely to be replaced with a testing regime.

A senior government source said: “We will have a different system when schools return in September which combines proportionate protections when someone tests positive with trying as much as possible to keep schools open.”"

www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jun/28/ministers-set-to-end-automatic-isolation-for-pupils-in-england[/quote]
Hmmm, so looks like it’ll be back to daily LFD in secondaries instead of isolation of close contacts. What about primaries, I wonder?!

Will be interesting to see the results of the trials in schools. If they are published. They had better not conflate them with trials of adults in workplaces.

I am so fed up with this spouted garbage about 200 + sized bubbles all being sent home because of one case. it's just such bollocks. And yet everyone believes that if one child in year 10 tests positive 200 kids get isolated. Do they my arse..

proportionate protections means??

Sit the positive kid next to the window (that doesn't open).

Is the thought that by September adults will be protected, and covid possibly dwindled to more like a common cold in terms of severity?

The cases we have had this week have all been asymptomatic or v mild. I can see the frustration from other students and parents for students to be off school isolating for a mild illness. I know some children have got long covid so am wary of this.

But how will they police the daily LFTs? The public are wising up to the fact that they are a bit shit, and they are also bored of doing the tests. Many can't seem to get their kids to comply.

And some children might actually be pretty poorly!

A girl in my year 12 said she has never felt so ill.

I was supposed to end with saying I'm not sure what the correct path is now. Repeated isolation is causing a lot of resentment and hospital admissions are relatively low. I think I would accept daily LFT from September in place of isolation.

No doubt some are pretty poorly. I guess I'm trying to look from the position of a student/parent who has had 3-4 periods of isolation and never been ill. That can't really keep happening indefinitely.

I agree LFT rates are falling, no one can be arsed and some have actively stopped because they don't want to know.