Sixty-Eighth Republic - still under temporary guardianship…

[MrsHerculePoirot]

In the absence of staff and her fabulous thread titles and witty openers here is a 68th thread. The broom cupboard is overflowing so time for another Republic. Hopefully we hear from staff soon.

Stolen from previous threads…
'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.'

Thanks-I thought as much.

So, schools are vital, must never close but staff can’t have their boosters. Hooray.

Oh sorry, I can't even make sense of what I was trying to write.

I think they should put school staff on the booster list now to prevent what is currently going on in my school - 7 staff off for the next week isolating.

Hope you feel better soon Rule do as little as humanly possible.

Just found out my daughters Year group in primary school has 15 positive Covid cases. Year group has about 55 kids in it.

Yes - you might not get observed though. Your Head should swerve you. I got observed as an NQT back in the day - we got outstanding at that inspection, I doubt it was anything to do with me!

Whew, that's good. I don't know how many teachers they'll observe anyway. But I can see that my school is doing what it can do to be ready.

My boss just texted me to basically say don't do any work please, even if you feel 'better' - I want you to come back properly well. So that was nice.

Just found out my daughters Year group in primary school has 15 positive Covid cases. Year group has about 55 kids in it.

Yes, it was only when I asked for someone to pick my child up from school on the WhatsApp that I found out how many kids had it. I also worked out from that how we probably got it, considering my child is still negative.

Lots of parties first week of half term. My MIL took my child to those parties and hung around. More than one positive case at those parties, MIL would have been a close contact for more than one child. My child didn't catch it, for whatever reason, but MIL did, passed it to FIL, who has an auto immune issue. He got ill quickly, gave it to my partner (they hugged more than once, I avoided that), who has the same auto immune issue. MIL develops it a day after FIL. Partner develops it 2 days later, then me 4 days later.

Child floats through on a wave of luck. So far.

I was so pissed off I didn't get my second jab till end of July when we'd broken up for the summer but now it's looking like a good thing.

Yes, that's the current sentiment at school that's it's unfair that the 23-28 ish year olds who got their second jab even as late as September are much better off than the 45-49 year olds who might have been done by April or May but won't qualify for a booster.

FFS Royal mail was meant to have delivered my PCR by 3 and all our priority boxes last pick up is 4.30 so will have to wait till tomorrow now (if it arrives) I don't drive so don't have the luxury of a drive through one. Now I'm going to have to take Monday off and feel terrible about it.

I'm lucky to have a walk through about ten minutes from the house, though I do prefer a drive through as I like it if they do it for me (they sometimes offer). I never feel entirely sure that I've done dc' properly so I don't fully believe the negative result.

I wonder about child's negative PCRs (she does them herself, and it all looks OK). Not convinced. But LFTs are neg too. Who knows.

Totally get the slack jaw affect @Rule 😂 that was me as well. Brain back working just taking the body a little longer! I found paracetamol and ibuprofen helped with the really weird aches I had in lower back and legs.

Bollocks.
Crushing headache and a bit achy last night so I've done my lft a day early and got a really strong positive.

Oh no! Get a pcr quick so you have all the t and t stuff sorted for work. Do a food delivery order while you're not too fuzzy headed - loads of squash, tea, lemons, honey, salt and vinegar crisps, cucumber, marmite rice cakes and drugs. That's my advice!

Oh no @DrMadelineMaxwell hope you feel better quickly.

Thanks. Supposed to be at a christening today so I'm glad I tested. No classic symptoms yet.

Pcr for dh and I booked for 9am.

If I'm positive he has to get a PCR to rule out having to isolate so we just booked it for both of us.

@DrMadelineMaxwell hope you feel better soon and DH manages to avoid it.

Thanks. Me too! He doesn't 'do' being ill and hates missing work.

Wales rules say he can go back as soon as he gets a negative.

I'll do an online shop if I get a positive pcr and decamp to sleep in dd1's (away at uni) room.

Just catching up. Sort to everyone who has tested positive - take care of yourselves and don’t rush back to work too quickly, make sure you are fully recovered.

We’ve never had so many pupils off as we have this term, it’s clearly just running rampant and our vaccinations don’t start until much later in the month.

That should say sorry

@noblegiraffe

I was so pissed off I didn't get my second jab till end of July when we'd broken up for the summer but now it's looking like a good thing.

Yes I got mine end of May. Just shy of 50. Poo!

We’ve never had so many pupils off as we have this term

Same here Medra lots of double vaccinated staff off too.

Despite being asthmatic I got my 2nd jab finally in July.

Am tucked up in bed with my kindle.

The friend I went to the there with in Liverpool on Wednesday has just done an lft after I told her about mine and she has a strong positive too.

So we are blaming the theatre trip!

Sorry to hear more people are testing positive-hope you’re all ok.

This headline has really pissed me off.

OR… ‘work in a school with no risk mitigations at all and don’t qualify for a booster.’

Am I ruining Christmas?!

Children having covid over Christmas will certainly fuck it up for many. Is that not a concern?