The Sixty-fourth Republic - good luck to those still gliding towards the holidays especially after euro final

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We are still waiting advice on chairs and masks but keep the windows open. You don’t have to upload LFT results during the holidays.Do not sit on the chairs and do wear a mask.

Congratulations echt !

That kinda sums it up re the Covid secure doggy daycare @saucery, doesn’t it?

@JanFebAnyMonth

That kinda sums it up re the Covid secure doggy daycare *@saucery*, doesn’t it?

Yep. The difference between that approach and the tone of the Yippee! All back to normal in Sept! tone of the recent school newsletters is marked.

Just in the news that 1/4 of secondary pupils were off last Thursday.

600000 off for non covid reasons. School is so important eh? What will U4T say??

Just went an investigated, piggy because that sounded a lot. And it's more than 1/4 off.

"Pupil attendance in secondary schools adjusted for Y11-13 not expected to attend was 73.6% on 8 July. This is down from 76.9% on 1 July and 82.4% on 24 June."

Primary was 85.1%.

Covid absence in secondary was 13.5% and 9.8% in primary.

Why are loads of secondary kids absent for non-covid reasons?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-57820776

The article implies they’re off because of worried parents, MH issues including fear of failure, but mainly parents ensuring they don’t have to isolate and miss a booked holiday. Don’t know if any of those are true about substantial numbers of pupils though.

Why are loads of secondary kids absent for non-covid reasons?

CBA, mainly, I suspect.

It’ll be those “exam orphans” of whom Halfon spoke last week....

Day after the semi final?? Holidays? All the other terrible illnesses ?

Powers that be don’t want my help with catch up ☹️.

I’ve put my application for the one extra day a week job and discovered that a few admin colleagues who want to maybe get rid of some aspect of their current full time posts are interested.

At least those who are interviewed might get early sight of the new pastoral head if she comes in to do that!

@Piggywaspushed

Day after the semi final?? Holidays? All the other terrible illnesses ?

Good points piggy, however @mrshamlet probably wins with CBA

Perhaps we should ask the MN massive where all their kids were last Thursday?

Well that sucks Jan :(

Your powers that be are idiots, Jan. Total idiots.

Jan. they obviously don’t know a good thing when they see it.

@Piggywaspushed

Perhaps we should ask the MN massive where all their kids were last Thursday?

Well, it's been a couple of days since Nob started a thread.

I started TWO yesterday!! I need a break.

A lot of them will be protecting their holidays by having this week off.
Boss got cross today with a parent complaining we'd set no work for her child. We don't routinely set work for absent kids anyway but when parent said they were taking the week off to protect their trip to centre parks, it did not go down well.

Boss got cross today with a parent complaining we'd set no work for her child. We don't routinely set work for absent kids anyway but when parent said they were taking the week off to protect their trip to centre parks, it did not go down well

I don’t think parents realise how much time it takes to set extra work for a kid.
I was so impressed with my Year 8s today. ALL of them were in.

They do seem to think I can mark test papers almost instantly though.

I don't think they care, either!
Basically, they've pulled their child out of school a week abd a half early expecting live lessons to occupy them. We're not doing that, and she's "ill" (not covid) so we're not setting work... and now they've seen their arse.

Oh it's my son and I who create inequality not a society that accepts men abandoning responsibility for children and paying a pittance towards their upkeep and the institution of work doing little to accommodate single working mum's except creating lots of underpaid (but lots of skills needed) 16hr a week contracts knowing they'll tap into the overqualified but hand tied population of single parents. Got it

Sun's shining here.

So glad we're nearly at the end. I've got 3 lessons and a free tomorrow - lessons mainly constituting of documentaries. Friday I have one lesson to teach then they're all in forms till they go home just after lunch.

My HT would take the same line, MrsH. We're just not in the mood for any shit at this stage of the game.

I started a "no alcohol during the week"pledge this week. Gone to shit already.

SO jealous of people who are breaking up on Friday. We have to limp on until next THURSDAY, ffs.

Callme - that is sick and wrong! When do you go back?