FridgeMagnet
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Re-opening Schools?
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We've already got a local school with one member of staff testing positive, less than a week after re-opening.
www.theargus.co.uk
School confirms staff member has tested positive for coronavirus
A MEMBER of staff at a school has tested positive for coronavirus.
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
I'm really pleased to be back at school. It's a bit weird as a lot has changed for us in secondary so I'm having to adapt but it's great to see my classes again. A positive is that because we have to focus so intently on making and implementing these changes, a lot of extra stuff has been pared back meaning I get to concentrate on the quality of my lessons and teaching which is what I like the best - although workload has increased in this respect, as we have to teach at school but also provide lessons etc for children at home. Whilst I'm actually at work it all feels fine. I hope it stays that way. I really, truly believe that my students and my own children should be in school.
(btw spanglechick - my eldest is applying for secondary this year and your school is on the list - the word locally about your school is hugely positive)
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Was talking to a teacher pal earlier about these early school outbreaks and wondering if the staff involved had actually infected each other in the run up to the kids actually returning? Those days when heads get all the staff in together to get ready for the return with people coming straight back from their travels... 
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Seriously?Apparently the school that Boris Johnson visited on August 26th to explain how safe schools are has just been closed.
Was talking to a secondary teacher friend last night. They're putting the kids in bubbles according to year groups and these bubbles will stay in one place with the teachers moving round. When he asked how the teachers would remain safe, he didn't get much of an answer. Likewise about kids from rural areas all coming in together on the same buses. He's got pretty bad asthma and is quite worried about catching it I think.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Seriously?
It might not have been the entire school closed, at least it wasnt when I last looked at the story some time ago, but its at least partly true.
School visited by Boris Johnson less than 2 weeks ago confirms Coronavirus case | ITV News
Castle Rock School in Coalville is among a number of schools across the Midlands that have asked students to stay at home today following a confirmed case of Covid-19.
www.itv.com
nogojones
spelling is overrated
I'd be dipping it in my bosses tea then. They get paid more to deal with this sort of thing
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Two days it's taken for my college to realise teenagers can't or won't stay safe and have introduced mandatory face coverings in all communal areas and corridors. This has made me a bit happier
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MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Mrs Q has had her first full day at school,she was in yesterday but only Y7 and Y12 were present, today the rampaging hordes were back. Apparently they have found a flaw in the cunning plan already, they have staggered start times for the kids but a lot of parents have been dropping them off on their way to work and a lot thus get dropped off before their allocated start time so Mum/Dad can get to work.
This has basically resulted in the kids milling about enmasse on the pavements outside the school rather than milling about in the school grounds.
This has basically resulted in the kids milling about enmasse on the pavements outside the school rather than milling about in the school grounds.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
My co-tutor is being treated for cancer, and I'm type 2 diabetic, so under our College's rules, we're banned from the premises. Result.
At the other place, I'm effectively second-in-command, so if I say "We're not going in", everybody else has to say "How high?"
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Our students seem to be pretty compliant with the new rules, which mostly boil down to where the are and are not allowed to be.
Because we wanted as many kids as possible to still have practical lessons (dance, drama, music, technology and PE) in specialist spaces, there are some bits of extreme logistical fine-tuning to get classes from their bubble’s zone, to the space in question, without crossing any other zones. Lots of access through fire doors and tours around the usually “out of bounds“ areas behind buildings and through rarely used gates. Which aren’t always unlocked.
Also, we have nowhere near enough loos to have one set of each gender facilities per year group. This means, hilariously, that there is a single cubicle for all 80-odd boys in the sixth form.
But everyone who is responsible for having to make it work is being very positive and resilient whenever we find out yet another flaw in the endlessly complicated plan as it’s put into practice. School is quite a positive place to be, right now. We’ve never been a draconian kind of place with absolute and inflexible rules about stupid stuff... our kids know that sometimes a plan changes and everyone has to adapt.
Because we wanted as many kids as possible to still have practical lessons (dance, drama, music, technology and PE) in specialist spaces, there are some bits of extreme logistical fine-tuning to get classes from their bubble’s zone, to the space in question, without crossing any other zones. Lots of access through fire doors and tours around the usually “out of bounds“ areas behind buildings and through rarely used gates. Which aren’t always unlocked.
Also, we have nowhere near enough loos to have one set of each gender facilities per year group. This means, hilariously, that there is a single cubicle for all 80-odd boys in the sixth form.
But everyone who is responsible for having to make it work is being very positive and resilient whenever we find out yet another flaw in the endlessly complicated plan as it’s put into practice. School is quite a positive place to be, right now. We’ve never been a draconian kind of place with absolute and inflexible rules about stupid stuff... our kids know that sometimes a plan changes and everyone has to adapt.
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
coming from the parent side of this (i.e. please, god, open soon 
) i have so much respect for all the teaching and support staff involved in making even a stuttering start possible. and the work they've/you've been putting in since the whole shitshow started.
just wanted to add my support for what it's worth to all of you finding safe/healthy/supportive conditions to work in.
(and apols if that's so far from reality atm i should just shut up
) x
) i have so much respect for all the teaching and support staff involved in making even a stuttering start possible. and the work they've/you've been putting in since the whole shitshow started.just wanted to add my support for what it's worth to all of you finding safe/healthy/supportive conditions to work in.
(and apols if that's so far from reality atm i should just shut up
) x
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Two colleagues have now had kids sent home to be tested because they were witnessed coughing.
polly
Well-Known Member
coming from the parent side of this (i.e. please, god, open soon
just wanted to add my support for what it's worth to all of you finding safe/healthy/supportive conditions to work in.
(and apols if that's so far from reality atm i should just shut up
Yes, all this. I have just had two consecutive virtual meetings with my kids' new teachers and the other parents, and in the Q&A people were actually bitching about not having homework yet and the new set up for PE
This is in the knowledge that a child in one cohort has CV19 symptoms so the teachers must have been exposed. Arseholes.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
We had a good one today.
Directly told in a meeting, in these words, that the school must absolutely not be allowed to close due to teacher incompetence of passing the virus from teacher to teacher.
Because of course, in a school that's been told the pupils don't have to socially distance, it would be impossible for a pupil to pass it around the school in a day, having, as they do, multiple close contacts with all staff.
It'd be our fault.
Wankers.
Directly told in a meeting, in these words, that the school must absolutely not be allowed to close due to teacher incompetence of passing the virus from teacher to teacher.
Because of course, in a school that's been told the pupils don't have to socially distance, it would be impossible for a pupil to pass it around the school in a day, having, as they do, multiple close contacts with all staff.
It'd be our fault.
Wankers.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
That's the solution give the virus a stern talking tooWe had a good one today.
Directly told in a meeting, in these words, that the school must absolutely not be allowed to close due to teacher incompetence of passing the virus from teacher to teacher.
Because of course, in a school that's been told the pupils don't have to socially distance, it would be impossible for a pupil to pass it around the school in a day, having, as they do, multiple close contacts with all staff.
It'd be our fault.
Wankers.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
In any kind of decently unionised society, a comment like "due to teacher incompetence" in that context would be grounds for some fairly serious threats of industrial action.We had a good one today.
Directly told in a meeting, in these words, that the school must absolutely not be allowed to close due to teacher incompetence of passing the virus from teacher to teacher.
Because of course, in a school that's been told the pupils don't have to socially distance, it would be impossible for a pupil to pass it around the school in a day, having, as they do, multiple close contacts with all staff.
It'd be our fault.
Wankers.
It always floors me that the education system is proud to place teachers, etc., on a pinnacle of trust when it suits them, but at the same time regard them and their thought processes as no better or more advanced that those of the kids they teach.
There's a bitter irony in the way that our most essential professions - teachers, doctors, nurses, associated professions, care staff, etc - are all, to a man/woman, the very professions this government seems to target with the crassest insults, and worst support.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I know you're joking, but you'd be surprised how embedded the delusion of total power over everything is within some bits of the education system.
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