Broom cupboard 4 - soon be time to think about heating this place

[TheHoneyBadger]

Will post this on the end of the other thread too but I have just found this:

If you are identified as a contact and asked to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace, including by the NHS COVID-19 app you may be entitled to a payment of £500 from your local authority under the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has been told to self-isolate you may also be entitled to this payment.

^Presumably that is all of the 'thought' that has gone into the situation I've been talking about. Still doesn't tell us if we would be seen as taking unauthorised leave or able to work from home or anything - need union specific advice on that.

@noblegiraffe

So long as it's not a dress-up day. I suck at dress-up days.

It involves no dressing up. I also hate dressing up days. It involves 'discovering the tomb,' sketching artefacts and trying to work out what they were/who owned them/how they were used, and then piecing together information from different sources to see if we have found King Tut or not.

@Twistytail

A lurker in need of advice.

Household is 2 teacher adults plus 1 primary child.
1 adult developed symptoms (cough and temp) in the night last night.
All did LFT this morning. 2xadults positive, 1xchild negative.
All did pcr. All results back this evening and negative.
Adults did another LFT. Adult with symptoms is positive other adult is negative.
What to do in morning????

That's a tricky one. Presumably the guidance says you're all fine to carry on as normal? In your shoes I think I'd be tempted to re-test at least the symptomatic adult, but I'd be interested to see what others think.

Adult with symptoms stay off work and PCR again, everyone else in school. Not sure what else you can do.

And how do I teach? Children will be coming near me when they and their families don't know the risks. Don't think I am going to sleep tonight. Hoping to develop some symptoms during the night.

Really really tricky. You could say you had symptoms......

(I do NOT understand why a neg PCR trumps a pos LFT. Yes LFTs aren’t reliable, but their positives are reliable! I would ask this on Data but they’re meanies....)

Maybe the positive LFT you had was contaminated by the symptoms positive one?

Take another LFT in the morning. But if you’ve had a negative PCR, and your partner, you can’t isolate…

I wish there was some way I could tell all the families so they could make an informed choice as to whether they send their children in. I think it is going to be a.long few days.

Glad I didn’t just have my bitter glasses on, I thought it was a criticism yet what was the alternative?

Obviously I teach in a grammar so we went to live teaching Day 1 of Lockdown 1, complete full timetable which actually had its disadvantages so much so we didn’t teach so many live lessons in lockdown 2 tin order to give pupils screen free time.

However, I am no blinded that not every pupil I teach is representative of the whole of England. If a pandemic had hit when I was a child in the 80s I would have starved. That’s not hyperbole. My one meal a day was my school dinner. We didn’t have breakfast, snacks and would eat toast or cereal for dinner. As @ChloeDecker (I think) said, where is the discussion why it had to be schools who fed children. And then the article has the nerve to say Boris criticised the state of the FSM lunch boxes as if schools have shite meals to kids. Fuck off!

I needed to get that out 😆 Once a council estate kid, always a council estate kid!

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9990599/Why-jabbing-millions-kids-no-risk-Covid-simply-teachers-work.html

Just fuck off!

Actually isn’t this article an example of ‘hate speech’?

And then the article has the nerve to say Boris criticised the state of the FSM lunch boxes as if schools gave shite meals to kids. Fuck off!

This! A thousand times this! Talk about rewriting history.

I hear you Mother. I wasn't in your shoes as a child but my DH was, and a significant proportion of children at my school are. Those in power have simply no idea.

That Fail article is pure poison. Inaccurate, badly written, and filled with senseless vitriol: I don't know who Dan Wootton is but he should perhaps remove the beam from his own eye before criticising the way teachers conduct themselves at work.

@motherrunner

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9990599/Why-jabbing-millions-kids-no-risk-Covid-simply-teachers-work.html

Just fuck off!

The comments I read are largely very supportive of teachers. What a horrible article though.

Really happy to hear the news about vaccinations yesterday and then today suddenly having a wobble about vaccinating my own teenage son. He will do it if we tell him too. What if I do, primarily to protect other people, and he is in the small percent who suffer complications? I need to read something to sway me Shouldn't be hard to find a thread on here about it!

Have just skimmed that article. If someone wrote it in my class I'd make them redraft it with some decent reasons for their views, as ones that are demonstrably false don't carry any weight twat

Dan Wootton is a scrofulous being whose picture should feature in any media dictionary under ‘Slimy, mendacious journalist’.

I did like the head of the Leeds MAT on Ch4 news last night who said vaccinations of 12-15 yr Olds were the responsibility of the child/parent and the NHS and any discussion or disagreement about the roll out should be between them and nothing whatsoever to do with the school.

Gosh how about society is so fucked that it was bloody schools who had to feed children and 'go visiting' aka checking children are alive and vaguely safe because they're known to be at risk and living in abusive households where they are neglected even at the best of times let alone in a lockdown when social workers are 'working from home'? Surely that's the headline issue here?

What the fuck has happened to the press?

So many children in poverty that schools had to operate as emergency food banks. Social Services so unfit for purpose that schools had to voluntarily do welfare checks to ensure safety of at risk kids. No , those bad schools prioritised 'going out visiting' and making food parcels instead of remote learning

That's made me quite cross if you hadn't noticed

I would vax teens to avoid disruption for them. (Trips/important days). But mainly as we dont know about lc and what it is . Vax reduced 50%in adults.
My main concern is what covid does to brains. What is the brain fog and will it increase Alzheimer's risk or parkinsons?
My dc friend 10yo parents had covid. about 8m ago. The dc has missed loads of school. Who knows what is wrong but if it were covid related there is no treatment obviously.

Gav has cleared his desk to make way for……?

It can’t be anyone shitter. Can it?

Please god not PP.

Eeek, not finding out till tomorrow apparently....

Bye, bye Gav. Don’t let the door smack you on the arse on the way out.

Or do. I don’t care.

(Noble, It'll be a tory, so yes, probably just as shit as the Gavster)

So glad Gavlar has gone, but who will replace him….

And why has Raab the incompetent got deputy PM?!