Off Topic SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19

It’s definitely political and it’s disgraceful

 

Naturism or the medieval chain mail look?

 

Sounds like deflection tactics to me !

All of a sudden everybody seems to have switched attention to the teachers being the enemy .
Dont see your mam !
Dont get a bus !
Stay Alert !
Ooh but cram kids into schools but only in England !
Good switching away for the authorities !
Not confusing is it ??​

 

In many cases of easing the lock down it's nothing more than guess work as to what will happen, but some schools have been up and running throughout the lock down, it should be possible to see what the effects of opening up schools will be.

 

Apart from the teachers that were shielding, yeah most will have worked through.

Some schools still have a fair few kids in them. Bricknell Primary School was on Hull Live a month back or so because not all key worker kids were offered a place because they had too many children in already - around 200 of their 600 pupils. I think schools were only allowed a maximum of one-third of their enrolment.

Vulnerable children will be those who may have social services involved with their family or they may have additional educational needs with extra plans in place as two examples.

The number of kids in our school has been going up week on week and we are up to an average of 30 which, with our classroom sizes and social distancing measures, created four groups of children.

When the first few years groups are sent back in June, some schools will simply not have enough rooms to put the kids in or enough staff to teach the groups.

The government are pretending its about education but it’s not. It’s simply childcare to get people back to work. I’m fine with that as long as it’s organised safely.

 

Ok I thought you meant vulnerable to covid
Worked through doing what? Why would they be working all easter holidays?
They aren’t all in they are working from home mostly aren’t they? Doing what I don’t know. so you’re up to 30?? Out of what 300-400 kids? Seriously why would you need full staffing for that it’s ridiculous
I understand all this is anxiety provoking etc
But come on get on with it.

 

The majority of schools put staff on rotas to staff the children that were still in school. So not everybody is in every day, no. When not in, it’s doing all the online learning stuff and marking that. Or filming lessons. Or ringing families and checking in with the children. Or sorting out the mess of the free school meals vouchers. Or arranging and delivering laptops and internet devices. Etc.

Personally, I’m not anxious about going back. I can’t wait to see them again. Lots of teaching staff across the country are anxious and I can see why when the “scientific evidence” isn’t really proof (I appreciate this Covid is new to us) and the scientists are using words like “probably” and “suggest” about kids being at risk. Plus, rules we’ve followed as a society suddenly aren’t rules anymore inside a classroom.

Looking at Denmark, France and Germany, we should be okay. Their slight rises in infections went back down again a few days after. Plus, we were probably more at risk the three weeks before we “closed schools” when there was no distancing than we will be when reopened.

I’ll stop boring everybody on the thread now

 

Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion".[1] It is sometimes applied to the growth of bureaucracy in an organization.

 

One small step for Man, one Giant step for Mankind...

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I can't wait to have my full class back, but having spoken to most parents, I won't be seeing them until September, by which point they'll be in the class above. Which is a shame but I completely understand. I teach Year 3 anyway, so my kids won't be in unless they up the phased return.

I'm not going to bite to the churlish, "teachers are lazy" remarks, they're bullshit. That's it. Don't like how much holiday we get? Become a ****ing teacher then . We even get paid to go on holiday, it's brilliant. I get to spend two weeks over Christmas with my family, maybe go away. Six weeks to bum around in Summer.

That being said, I do question the choice of classes going back to work; we've picked the youngest children and the very oldest in Primary schools. The two youngest year groups will not be able to socially distance, no matter how hard we try. That's 200 kids alone, spread across 8 classrooms. But Year 6, who have already technically left (SATS cancelled), they haven't really got much more to learn than they would through our home learning. We've been told it's in preparation for them going to Secondary school, so then, how is being back in primary school helpful? We're not even teaching the curriculum till September at the earliest, let alone proper sit down lessons.

People need to get back to work, but we're not a child minding service. And people have been told if they can't get into work, they can work from home. PM's exact words. And if they can't work from home and have to go in, they're a key worker and their kids are already in anyway. Deal with it.

 

I was wondering why does the test for this virus involve raking about so far up ones nose? and then this flashed across my mind.

 

Your country needs you was a First World War slogan, but let's just focus on the irony of a tax exile using it as a mode of attack.

The next two questions, well, plenty of people were asking them at the time: do a bit of reading dimwit.

The last statement is pathetic and doesn't really deserve a response.

 

It's a fallacy that the UK was politically united during WW2. There was a huge amount of criticism from the media, politicians and the general public throughout the whole period.

 

As a general, uneducated medical opinion, I think schools should be looking to open sooner rather than later, with the appropriate safety precautions - antibac, hand washing facilities outside classrooms and social distancing measures if possible.

However, reading the UK news, I'm wavering on this opinion, because it seems that most fee-paying schools are staying closed until September.. Which to me is worrying, because it's saying the risk, and hence legal action, is enough for them to remain closed, whereas the state sector has to act as the guinea pig and take the burden. Again it seems that working class, lower income Brits are expendable, especially when it comes to money being spent and potential illness and lives being lost. If schools are to open, then all must. If some deem the danger too high and remain closed, then all must remain closed. This is precedent that should be set.