Re-opening Schools?
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8ball
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Perhaps kids getting Delta, then Omicron, then BA.2?
Yes. Have had a lot of parents asking how this is possible and what is happening next
Now I tell them to contact their MP
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Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Several of my students off still, including two who were in sessions of mine this afternoon and who have both tested positive since they got home. Our department is under some scrutiny at the moment and though Covid is rife among students and staff you can bet your sweet bippy the Quality Team will be demanding to know why attendance to English and Maths is shit and if the missing students are working from home during their illnesses.
Meanwhile I'm one of about twenty people I've seen wearing a mask out of hundreds
Meanwhile I'm one of about twenty people I've seen wearing a mask out of hundreds
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I do worry about how much school my eldest is missing (Year 1), not that he’s even had a confirmed case but due to time off when we had it and couldn’t take him in, plus now 4 days off for sickness bug as you have to wait 48 hours before going back in (he had this on Wednesday, good for a few days then threw up everywhere Sunday night). Teacher was also off for the previous week (not Covid but the other nasty cold going about) with the TAs/LSAs holding the reigns. Very disruptive year so far.
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
yup I keep wearing a good quality mask even though virtually no one on campus does
I don't care even if students and colleagues think I'm a bit odd
I don't want to be unwell for even a couple of weeks right now
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
BB2 is in year 4 and as far as we know no one in our house has had it. (Kiss of death right there).
Her form teacher went home after a positive test at lunchtime yesterday, she’s doing online Zoom teaching for the rest of the week, these people are so committed to their jobs, truly wonderful.
2hats
Dust.
Given that innate immune response probably plays a greater role in young children than (an as yet largely untrained) adaptive response (DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.148694) and given that omicron-lineage appears to (at least try to) sidestep features of the innate immune response (DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.20.476754) and given vaccine performance in the very young (may need multiple low doses), then this might not be entirely surprising.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
21 members of staff off in Mrs B's school today; 19 with covid. She's back in today after two negative LFTs in a row.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
A nearby school had 180 out of 700-odd kids off with covid this week.
Others have sent entire year groups home for want of staff.
Others have sent entire year groups home for want of staff.
Not seen this in the news
mr steev
magic thought wizard
Pupils at a secondary school near me are doing a 4 day week, with each year taking a different day off to cope with shortages
Riklet
procrastinación
I hope all the daft cunts saying there was no reason to vaccinate children and whipping up (social) media hysteria are happy with themselves.
You only have to look at the data to see that children are currently a key part of covid transmission. Higher rates for all "parent aged" adults everywhere. Much lower for older people and also for younger adults, despite likely socialising etc. And extremely high rates still in under 12 age groups...
You only have to look at the data to see that children are currently a key part of covid transmission. Higher rates for all "parent aged" adults everywhere. Much lower for older people and also for younger adults, despite likely socialising etc. And extremely high rates still in under 12 age groups...
elbows
Well-Known Member
Fine to moan at them but in the UK the establishment proved itself more than capable of fucking up the vaccine timing for children and younger people without the influence of such groups. It wasnt treated as a priority at all, claims that childrens education was a priority were not matched by timely policies on this front at all.
Getting children back to school.
www.theguardian.com
DfE is ‘criminalising parents’ in England, say families still shielding from Covid
Parents facing prosecution for home schooling say vulnerable children and relatives’ safety comes before school attendance
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Getting children back to school.
DfE is ‘criminalising parents’ in England, say families still shielding from Covid
Parents facing prosecution for home schooling say vulnerable children and relatives’ safety comes before school attendance
My school's big focus at the moment is attendance. Cheered me right up to get home after work on friday and see the email with this week's attendance stats; big red down arrows for all year groups. Because where we are is in the middle of the biggest covid spike in the country right now. So some tosspot getting paid three times what I do for actually teaching has spent their entire week pissing in the wind.
Agent Sparrow
the age of slippers and migraines
Seems that jabs have finally been approved in England for all 5-11 year olds. Could have done with that a couple of months ago given I’m pretty sure we got it from my youngest!
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
School is closed tomorrow because of Eunice.
Not really a covid thing at all I'm just really, really happy about it
Not really a covid thing at all I'm just really, really happy about it
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Next week is half-term, today and tomorrow were down as inset days. For training. The new scip, called team teach. Or how to physically handle a pupil without getting sued.
Anyway. I turn up and it's 3 centres together, at least 40 staff. All in a small building. Like fuck am I going in there but nice head immediately grabs me and tells me I can do it with one other colleague in a separate classroom. So far so good. For me anyway. Because one of those 40 staff is my mate who has come back on the 10th day of his Covid. STILL POSITIVE. Coughing like a good 'un. Back because the sickness policy will kick in (because of half-term) if he doesn't. How fucking ridiculous is that? Pressured into doing that?
He didn't get sent home. And nobody complained because I work largely with a bunch of idiots who think Covid is over or just a bit of a cold. These are people who know I'm vulnerable. And these are people who have seen another senior member of staff be hit with long covid in a way that you wouldn't wish on anyone.
Fuck them. I had a good day away from them.
And fuck their stupid sickness policy where 10 days triggers a meeting but allowing someone knowingly with covid in a room with 40 staff is acceptable.
And yeah closed because it's armageddon here tomorrow.
Anyway. I turn up and it's 3 centres together, at least 40 staff. All in a small building. Like fuck am I going in there but nice head immediately grabs me and tells me I can do it with one other colleague in a separate classroom. So far so good. For me anyway. Because one of those 40 staff is my mate who has come back on the 10th day of his Covid. STILL POSITIVE. Coughing like a good 'un. Back because the sickness policy will kick in (because of half-term) if he doesn't. How fucking ridiculous is that? Pressured into doing that?
He didn't get sent home. And nobody complained because I work largely with a bunch of idiots who think Covid is over or just a bit of a cold. These are people who know I'm vulnerable. And these are people who have seen another senior member of staff be hit with long covid in a way that you wouldn't wish on anyone.
Fuck them. I had a good day away from them.
And fuck their stupid sickness policy where 10 days triggers a meeting but allowing someone knowingly with covid in a room with 40 staff is acceptable.
And yeah closed because it's armageddon here tomorrow.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
One of the office staff is now in hospital with pneumonia, though don’t know if it’s Covid related, I know she had it last year. Could be the other thing going round at the moment which I had a few weeks back. She will be vaccinated as she’s not an idiot, and one of her daughters works in one of the testing labs which she often talks about.
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