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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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 for school staff to let off steam.

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

If you are NOT staff and just have a general education query please start your own thread.

Do not give the staffroom password to non-staff as it attracts the wrong sort of crowd.

Other requirements for staff room entry include the ability to find the staff room, the ability to find a clean mug in the staff room, knowledge of the photocopier codes, and the ability to sniff out where the booze is stashed - Thirsty Tuesdays, Fizz Fridays now in operation.

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

Oh no piggy!
Hope he's ok. Cant believe a whole year at school to then get it during holidays - this virus is crazy!
Q is how many kids have already had this twice by now.
Dd2 had diarrhoea and vomiting during isolation. But think that was too much chlorine from our pool.

You have probably just missed the opportunity to not have to isolate as a contact (aka potentially spread
it as a fully vaxxed person).
Possibly a look round parliament?

Yup HS. Very very galling.

Oh no Piggy. Hope he feels better quickly and no-one else gets it!

Interesting news coming out about teen vaccines this afternoon! My 17 year old is v pleased.

From BBC article on announcement today:

Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, England's deputy chief medical officer, said there were plenty of vaccines available, adding: "We have the supply and I'm expecting this to start in a very short number of weeks indeed."

"There is no time to waste in getting on with this," he said, highlighting that children will start going back to sixth forms and colleges soon. "I want us to proceed as fast as is practically possible."

Hmm.

I'd get lynched for saying this on other boards but I cannot bear Van Tam

I feel the same @Piggywaspushed since he downplayed school transmission in the Winter.

Yip. I find his manner quietly aggressive too.

Yes, he used some really dismissive wording and tone re school transmission at several of the pressers.

Agree @Piggywaspushed. It just seems that even “the scientists” are in bed with the Gov.

Hope your ds recovers soon piggy. Rotten luck to catch it during the holidays when you (and he!) have got through such a difficult year in such tough circumstances.

Yes I went off him.

dangling I’ve PM’d you, don’t know I Fb you’ve seen?

*don’t know if you’ve

Here is next week's shitstorm in the making

www.tes.com/news/dfes-state-vs-private-schools-level-grade-gap-fears

Oh no Piggy! I hope DS isn't too poorly and makes a swift recovery.

🙁 Hope he's through it soon, Piggy. 💐

Don't know what to say about the TES story. I think it's what we've been expecting. (I have a results-awaiting, state-educated dd.)

That explains the stories last week about wealthy parents putting pressure on schools to bump results, piggy

I wonder how MN would take a ‘children on FSM should have their grades bumped by one’ campaign.

Is anyone other than the DfE surprised by that?!?! FFS. Twats. Remote learning massively increases the gap.

I'm not sure how mn would react to that noble, but it would be fairer than boosting everyone's grade. Of course it would miss off the kids who don't quite qualify for FSM but don't have any money either.

I wonder how MN would take a ‘children on FSM should have their grades bumped by one’ campaign.
Apoplectically.

Honestly, what a disgrace. 🙁

My mum (74 and long double jabbed) has it and I've been identified as a positive contact cos I spent 5 minutes with her the day before she got symptoms, but apparently DD, who was there overnight, doesn't count because she's under 12?

I dunno, I'm going off what my mum said they said and the fact the contact tracing text only mentions me.

Hope your DS is ok Piggy and your mum Frlrlrubert.

I did think that about going on holiday without the kids when I wrote it Jan. I nearly deleted it.

Have you considered starting a thread with the FSM grade bumping campaign noble?

U4T and Conservative Woman have gone into a Twitter meltdown....

Yes, I was reading an U4T thread. A bit of antisemitism, a soupçon of Great Reset, a touch of transhumanism. A lot of 'who bribed the JCVI?'