Sixty Seventh Republic - under temporary guardianship

[Hercisback]

In the absence of staff and her fabulous thread titles and witty openers here is a 67th thread. The broom cupboard is overflowing so time for another Republic. Hopefully we hear from staff soon.

Stolen from thread 66.
'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.'

twitter.com/john_actuary/status/1448971799480487938?s=21

www.ascl.org.uk/News/Our-news-and-press-releases/ASCL-survey-shows-Covid-is-continuing-to-cause-hav?fbclid=IwAR16i375Zqb2HP5qpHHDcP8C5TLnEfYDWItBXFULKk_uCSmN93bIrhfvsBw

And Eton’s gone into lockdown….

Why are they reporting on what's going on in one school? Why not all the others? Local school to my work has 1000 children off with covid. That's not been in the news.

Meanwhile, my child's school now has 10+ positive cases that they are happily telling us about. We've not told anyone about positive cases in my own school.

Yes of course you’re right rule.

1000 children?? And they haven’t gone online??

Happy Saturday all!

(You might not want to read this depressing thread about school vaccinations

twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1449288811318493185?s=21 )

Just reading the consent stuff for DS’s vaxx. Really strange process - school sent it out with warnings that they can’t discuss it - you have to contact School Immunisation Service. One can imagine how many parents will ignore that bit!

But it says you have to give consent within 72 hours. And obviously I’ve heard of the problems where late consents lead to no vaxx. Our letters were emailed out via sims on Thurs afternoon. Does that mean we have to reply (online form) by Sun afternoon?? If you have a query and realise you need to contact the Immunisation Service, bad luck if you’ve left it to the weekend, time runs out!! Is this really how it works?!?!

No wonder take up isn’t that high!

I have to say, if I’d been in charge of sending this out I’d have double checked what the situation was and then sent a warning about timings in CAITAL LETTERS to parents!

DS1 now has the ‘not covid’ virus so our house is once again full of coughing and tissues. I want to embrace the opportunity to relax, really I do, but I also really want to get outside and feel a bit more ‘normal’ now. Hopefully this means we’ll all be healthy by half term, though there’s still DS2’s turn to catch something…

Oh no Atta. Are you convinced it’s not Covid, presumably he’s had a neg PCR but…. (several buts are available atm!)

We LFTed yesterday and it was negative, but I’m considering booking a PCR for tomorrow. He’s autistic with sensory issues so the fewer tests we need to take the better.

We're in the area affected by the Wolverhampton lab. I've had the "not Covid" thing, LFT and PCR both negative, but it was vile. Lots of staff off at my place, pos LFT, neg PCR, now isolating and v ill, actually it IS Covid.

Our LEA has "recommended" people presume it is Covid if they have positive LFT, neg PCR with symptoms and/or have been in contact with someone positive, but children aren't being tested at all (primary) so it's staff catching it from children "with a bit of a cold". Also so hard at this time of term when everyone feels like they've been hit by a truck fatigue-wise.

Interestingly I have never been told to get a PCR by Zoe even though I've had multiples of their symptoms, others report Zoe sends them for PCR if they so much as sniff. Wonder why?

I never have either!

Interesting. Zoe has sent me for a few tests. Including one when i had no symptoms at all.

@cornercupboard if you don't mind me asking, how do you know if you're in the area affected by Wolverhampton? I've been waiting for 48 hours for my results, but am not close to Wolverhampton. Mind you, I guess a lot of other labs are getting more samples than usual because of Wolverhampton being closed.

chocolateisavegetable well I'm just presuming we are, since we're in the SW! Anecdotally anyone I know with Covid now has had a neg PCR but pos LFT.

Thanks @cornercupboard - I just wondered if there was a website where you could check! My result has just come through - negative. Which means it's the non-Covid, but still horrible, virus. Well, I hope that's what it means anyway (LFTs have all been negative)!

I’ve just booked DS1 for a PCR. I couldn’t cope with the guilt of sending him in next week if i wasn’t sure he was negative. We’re definitely not in an area affected by the false negatives (positives are rife here!)

Do we know what the issue was in the SW? Faulty equipment? Rogue tester?

Shitty lab practice due to the lab being set up by people with no lab experience but were Tory chums I think.

And no QC.

@AttaGirrrrl

Do we know what the issue was in the SW? Faulty equipment? Rogue tester?

Am wondering whether we’ll ever know exactly but there’s enough evidence already of problems.

We're not SW bit loads of staff and kids got pos lft followed by negative pcr and with all the symptoms and really, really ill with it. Staff still (of v unwell), kids in and mildly unwell staff in, of course.

Urgh reporting in from a Covid-filled house.

Luckily no-one is really ill but it’s so frustrating. 100% has come from school. So many children off for a couple of days with headache, tummy bug etc. People just aren’t testing. And so many children in school who are household contacts…negative pcr initially but then, surprise surprise end up positive by day 5 or 6. After passing it around the class of course.

Sorry to hear that Prof.

Dangling roughly whereabouts are you? It’s definitely not just the SW is it. There were even some reports from Scotland …. goodness knows how.

I'm not entirely clear about how a lab in Wolverhampton badly affected results in the SW and not, say, Wolverhampton. Where were Wolverhampton tests going?

I've been wondering that too.