The Sixty-Fifth Republic - The Covid School Phoney War under way so who will the gold medal and who will get the wooden spoon?

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Baiters, haters, goaders, and bashers can jog on somewhere else.

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You can sit on chairs but keep the windows open. You don’t have to upload LFT results during the holidays. You do not have to wear mask - free choice

Nothing surprising in that report, Jan tbh, particularly about suppression of delta variant data.

They obviously leaned on the ONS too to put out their ‘teachers are safe’ data that was a pile of arse

Reminds me of this thread from October www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4048343-The-rate-of-infections-in-schools-is-being-suppressed-from-public-knowledge

Oh god are we going back to those special magic covid repelling walls that surround schools?

Nah we’ll be back to ‘teachers aren’t dying, think of the uncomplaining supermarket workers and get on with it’

Wrt to the "teachers aren't dying" - did anyone ever produce any decent numbers on teacher infection rates

Was one of the reports not that school staff were infected at the same levels as healthcare workers but died at a lower rate (healthier on average?)?

Teachers are often young women who aren't in poverty so less at risk from serious covid than e.g. bus drivers or factory workers.

There was something dodgy about the statistics cutting off at 60 or something, so ignoring a large number of deaths in people who had teacher as their occupation on their death certificate.

Yes, and I think we talked at the time about lower paid and support staff in schools, other than teaching assistants, obviously, coming into contact less with others/students etc, whereas in hospitals, porters, cleaners , nursing assistants etc all in the firing line. Also, I bet lower paid staff in schools are healthier overall than in hospitals, warehouses and public transport. Just a hunch.

Oh god are we going back to those special magic covid repelling walls that surround schools

Surely not. It will be children only get it mildly. And teachers have been vaccinated.

I wish they would allow the over 12s to get vaccinated.

Us4Them are now campaigning against vaccine passports which is weird as children aren’t being vaccinated.

It’s like they’re not a grassroots parenting organisation concerned about keeping kids in school after all.

@noblegiraffe

Us4Them are now campaigning against vaccine passports which is weird as children aren’t being vaccinated.

It’s like they’re not a grassroots parenting organisation concerned about keeping kids in school after all.

Who’d have thunk it!

Amazing that cases are now dropping, isn’t it? Wonder what’s changed in the last week!

The average attendance rate in our (primary) classes in the last week of term was around half. So yes, lots of people I suspect, very keen to preserve their holiday departures, and as you say, likely to be correspondingly reluctant to get tested.

Crikey someone on Data has just said that some schools in Notts and Brum don’t finish until TOMORROW, 😮

Yup. I looked this up for another forum. I thought they were like Leicestershire and broke up on the 9th/16th. Derbyshire might be the same. Down here I think the LA has today as the last day, but I don't think any schools are still in. They mostly finished Friday.

@JanFebAnyMonth how are they still going!

I finished last Wednesday and can honestly say, there's no way any of us could have done another week and a half! We were on our knees!

Has the leaked Hart conversations been discussed here?

Someone leaked the private discussions of the anti-lockdown Hart group who are affiliated with Us4Them and bloody hell. The idea that they’re a bunch of mums around a kitchen table is well and truly destroyed.
twitter.com/karamballes/status/1420159234524725259?s=21

The thread is worth reading…Cambridge Analytica guy advising on how to change minds about mask wearing, some guy with some schools software in 4,500 schools who used it to send a ‘don’t vaccinate kids’ message to teachers..it’s just

Thanks, will have a look

Hope The Guardian or whoever publicises it.

In the spirit of keeping you up to date with my shedding of edu-shite in the run-up to retirement, I handed in my notice to cease employment today.

Ta -daaaa :o

Excellent news echt
Are you counting down the days?

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

Yup. I looked this up for another forum. I thought they were like Leicestershire and broke up on the 9th/16th. Derbyshire might be the same. Down here I think the LA has today as the last day, but I don't think any schools are still in. They mostly finished Friday.

I interviewed at a school that went through today too. Can't imagine still being in work by now! I've already moved on to next year and set up my classroom.

@echt

In the spirit of keeping you up to date with my shedding of edu-shite in the run-up to retirement, I handed in my notice to cease employment today.

Ta -daaaa :o

👏👏👏.

Excellent, echt! How do you feel?

I have finished my UCAS subject reports. Going to do a few of the A2 maths textbook exercises before starting on the form tutor reports. I do find it a calming activity to do calculus (not so much the trig ).

The thread about the discussions around the leaked Hart chat has been taken down while MNHQ have a look at it.

???

Happy handing in notice day, echt

@MrsHamlet

Excellent news echt Are you counting down the days?

Not quite, as the year doesn't finish until 17th December, but milestones pass. I don't think I'll get to the sleeps until Term 4 in October.

Oh wownoble, hadn’t got to that, but presume you had, no obvious (to you) reason why, then?