Re-opening Schools?
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SpookyFrank
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Teachers/parents; are kids wearing masks at all where you are? Here they're expected to in communal areas but I think that might only be happening in Devon and Cornwall.
It's fucking daft anyway. Clearly the classroom where kids are sat shoulder to shoulder for an hour at a time is when there's the greatest risk of transmission.
It's fucking daft anyway. Clearly the classroom where kids are sat shoulder to shoulder for an hour at a time is when there's the greatest risk of transmission.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
Masks in classrooms as well as communal areas at my daughter's school in Lancashire, following positive cases in years 8, 10 and 11.
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
school policy is masks no longer required. but vast majority are choosing to wear them in class. (wales)
Steel Icarus
maybe I'm a maze
elbows
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‘It’s scary’: record Covid absences cause concern in England’s schools
Parents and teachers share their views as confirmed or suspected pupil infections exceed 100,000
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Still wearing masks in communal areas and in classes in Edinburgh. Still mandatory so only a few deniers saying it gives them panic attacks - my boys report most kids wear them.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Starting from this week I believe. You can take them to specific walk-in centres here and they're sending out appointments from next week. Mine are going on Friday.
baldrick
hmmmmm
Schools will be offering them from next week as well. The school vax team will be at ours on the 30th iirc.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
Daughter at home today awaiting the results of last night's PCR test.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Have any of these wankers even tried to explain why it wouldn't transmit in schools? What's supposedly the magic factor that makes them the exception to everything we've been told for the last year and a half?
elbows
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My local news has a useful guide to how many pupils in primary & secondary schools have been testing positive in various towns round here. Are other peoples local news doing the same?
www.coventrytelegraph.net
School Covid outbreaks lead to almost 700 new positive pupil cases
The number has rocketed since last week
Not in the news but...
My testing team are going to a junior school which has had a major outbreak of Covid since opening.
Kids, teachers (including head and deputy head) and parents all testing positive. So we are going there for two days with PCR testing for all contacts including siblings etc.
The school may close as a 'circuit breaker' depending on the result.
My testing team are going to a junior school which has had a major outbreak of Covid since opening.
Kids, teachers (including head and deputy head) and parents all testing positive. So we are going there for two days with PCR testing for all contacts including siblings etc.
The school may close as a 'circuit breaker' depending on the result.
Sounds a bit late for that.
Pretty much the story of the UK pandemic
elbows
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Its never too late to make a real difference in terms of specific people in specific places getting it or not. Even when its too late to have avoided a spike in numbers and specific outbreaks starting in the first place. Its a bit like when people were tempted to feel defeated when things go out of control nationally or when individual measures werent enough on their own to turn the tide.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Went to a proper superspreader event the other day, a Secondary school Open Evening. Hundreds of parents and kids from Primary Schools across the area crammed into a (despite their best efforts tbf) poor ventilated auditorium with kids and teachers from the Sec. School. Less than 5% of adults in masks.
Same where I work. Feeling awful today
That's pretty much the day to day experience of us teachers. Just less adults and more children.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Oh I know. But add the influx of kids and parents from every primary school in the area just in case the virus hasn't made it in yet....
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planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
We have an Estyn (Welsh equivalent of Ofsted) inspection next week as they've decided it's safe to go back into schools now. This week we've had 20% of staff and 20% of our attending kids off with positive PCR tests (we are a very small school).
Be interesting to see if they come in masks. Because only 20% of the staff do (and about the same number of pupils).
Be interesting to see if they come in masks. Because only 20% of the staff do (and about the same number of pupils).
I know but I don't believe there isn't a school that's riddled with it.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Steel Icarus
maybe I'm a maze
My college has- halfway through this (third) week - sent an email including a Covid reporting form and the info that there is an Outbreak Management Plan triggered if 5 staff or students OR 10% of staff/students who may have been in close contact test positive within a ten day period.
We have three things going through college like wildfire right now: a very nasty cold including splitting headaches; sickness and diarrhoea; Covid. No mandatory masks/distancing/pretty much any mitigation is having a huge impact. But as the dozen or so learners off in my dept due to Covid or suspected Covid are spread across different groups we carry on without any mitigation.
Had two learners separately come onto site to say they think they have Covid and what should they do about it
We have three things going through college like wildfire right now: a very nasty cold including splitting headaches; sickness and diarrhoea; Covid. No mandatory masks/distancing/pretty much any mitigation is having a huge impact. But as the dozen or so learners off in my dept due to Covid or suspected Covid are spread across different groups we carry on without any mitigation.
Had two learners separately come onto site to say they think they have Covid and what should they do about it
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