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covcity4life

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,466
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Williamson’s announcement is sending my anxiety through the roof about workload and COVID implications
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You got an extra week off!!!

Lol
 

clint van damme

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,467
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Williamson’s announcement is sending my anxiety through the roof about workload and COVID implications
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if you've got a colleague who voted tory offer to make them a coffee and wank in it.
Stress relief and retribution in the flick of a wrist.
 
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David O'Day

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,468
Sky Blue Pete said:
981 deaths is awful. Whoever decided to keep London tier 2 and to open up at Xmas should resign
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But he's PM
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,469
covcity4life said:
You got an extra week off!!!

Lol
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Erm no I didn’t it’s teaching a practical subject remotely
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,470
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Williamson’s announcement is sending my anxiety through the roof about workload and COVID implications
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I’m sorry bsb
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,471
clint van damme said:
if you've got a colleague who voted tory offer to make them a coffee and wank in it.
Stress relief and retribution in the flick of a wrist.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly hardly any teachers I know vote Tory
 

covcity4life

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,472
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Erm no I didn’t it’s teaching a practical subject remotely
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I'm joking.

Not sure what i will be asked to do. Wont ask for a few days so don't get asked to prep lol
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,473
Sky Blue Pete said:
I’m sorry bsb
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He is strongly hinting that schools will function basically as medical centres and staff to carry out tests. Then he goes on about world class education but still won’t let me teach properly. If you put teachers up the vaccination list then we actually could deliver one
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,474
covcity4life said:
I'm joking.

Not sure what i will be asked to do. Wont ask for a few days so don't get asked to prep lol
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Sorry CC4L just on edge as is the missus
 
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clint van damme

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,475
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Perhaps unsurprisingly hardly any teachers I know vote Tory
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there's always one contrary c**t in any situation.
 

covcity4life

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,476
clint van damme said:
there's always one contrary c**t in any situation.
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No there aint
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,477
clint van damme said:
there's always one contrary c**t in any situation.
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Actually I think my HOD did
 

chiefdave

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,478
Secondary schools and colleges in areas of England with very high rates of Covid infection rates will not open to all pupils in January, the education secretary says.
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Most of the country is in tier 4, the highest tier possible at present, so surely all those areas are very high rates of infection and therefore schools will be closed?
 

clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,479
Brighton Sky Blue said:
He is strongly hinting that schools will function basically as medical centres and staff to carry out tests. Then he goes on about world class education but still won’t let me teach properly. If you put teachers up the vaccination list then we actually could deliver one
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there was a headmaster on the radio from a school in Essex who said they'd used every spare bit of space to set up for social distancing and keeping bubbles apart, now he's been told he has to create a testing area before they go back, it's a fucking shit show.
Yet they get it un the neck constantly form the Daily mail brigade. Wankers.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,480
clint van damme said:
there was a headmaster on the radio from a school in Essex who said they'd used every spare bit of space to set up for social distancing and keeping bubbles apart, now he's been told he has to create a testing area before they go back, it's a fucking shit show.
Yet they get it un the neck constantly form the Daily mail brigade. Wankers.
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Replicate that across the country with schools that haven’t been funded properly for years and it’s utter carnage
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,481
Brighton Sky Blue said:
He is strongly hinting that schools will function basically as medical centres and staff to carry out tests. Then he goes on about world class education but still won’t let me teach properly. If you put teachers up the vaccination list then we actually could deliver one
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While I do get vaccinating the most vulnerable first, I am a bit surprised that key workers, who are expected to keep society functioning, aren't given some kind of priority.
 
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clint van damme

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,482
Deleted member 5849 said:
While I do get vaccinating the most vulnerable first, I am a bit surprised that key workers, who are expected to keep society functioning, aren't given some kind of priority.
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they are being, just teachers aren't included, which is ridiculous and an act of spite from the tories.
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,483
Deleted member 5849 said:
While I do get vaccinating the most vulnerable first, I am a bit surprised that key workers, who are expected to keep society functioning, aren't given some kind of priority.
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Are they not at all!
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,484
clint van damme said:
they are being, just teachers aren't included, which is ridiculous and an act of spite from the tories.
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Yeah, I meant tbh not just teachers, but supermarket workers etc. too. Stick the people (and their families!) who have to go in first,the rest can wait.

Although I suppose once you add families, that probably *is* just about everybody who's pushed out into society atm...

Ignore me, then(!)
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,485
Deleted member 5849 said:
While I do get vaccinating the most vulnerable first, I am a bit surprised that key workers, who are expected to keep society functioning, aren't given some kind of priority.
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If someone wants me going in to teach remotely and in school at the same time with deaths pushing 1,000 a day then perhaps so...

Who is going to turn around these huge numbers of extra regular tests in enough time for them to be meaningful? If it takes a day or two to get the result what’s the point?
 

clint van damme

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,486
Deleted member 5849 said:
Yeah, I meant tbh not just teachers, but supermarket workers etc. too. Stick the people (and their families!) who have to go in first,the rest can wait.

Although I suppose once you add families, that probably *is* just about everybody who's pushed out into society atm...

Ignore me, then(!)
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I definitely think there's an argument for extending those classed as frontline workers and teachers should be in that category for sure.
 

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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,487
Nobody else has had to turn their place of work and job responsibility into that of a part time tester while being expected to do their normal job as well, unless I am mistaken.

The worst thing is Labour fecking agrees with it
 
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hill83

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,488
chiefdave said:
Most of the country is in tier 4, the highest tier possible at present, so surely all those areas are very high rates of infection and therefore schools will be closed?
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The cases per 100000 rate.
Coventry is 240. Where my mates brother lives in Essex is 1600.
I know it’s not purely based on that but both areas are now tier 4.

So to answer your question. Not a clue mate.
 
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xcraigx

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,489
Sky Blue Pete said:
981 deaths is awful. Whoever decided to keep London tier 2 and to open up at Xmas should resign
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981 deaths is down to the lag in reporting over Xmas. We went from 700 odd a day in the days before Xmas, then 3-400 for 4 days and now we are catching up. Expect tomorrow to be higher again. Scotland were giving 40 odd deaths a day before Xmas and have announced less than 50 in total for the past 6 days.
 
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Ian1779

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,490
If anyone thinks that the logistics and infrastructure will be in place for 3500 secondary schools to deliver mass testing on Jan 18th has to be contender for the thickest, most moronic imbecile ever to be created from 46 chromosones.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,491
Stop calling Van Tam ‘JVT’, it’s not the fucking Eton WhatsApp
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,492
Schools are safe, says Boris

Let me out of a fucking box then, says BSB
 

Ian1779

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,493
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Schools are safe, says Boris

Let me out of a fucking box then, says BSB
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Boris unsurprisingly is talking out of his arse again.
 

cowboy1850

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,494
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Nobody else has had to turn their place of work and job responsibility into that of a part time tester while being expected to do their normal job as well, unless I am mistaken.

The worst thing is Labour fecking agrees with it
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How come strike action is never mentioned in the education sector? I understand that some people won't want any actions to have a negative impact on the kids but I haven't worked in a sector that is so messed up.
Got to be honest, the academy I work for don't really seem to care about the kids anyway.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,495
Ian1779 said:
Boris unsurprisingly is talking out of his arse again.
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Indeed. Make everyone stay home or reinstate full normality in schools.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,496
cowboy1850 said:
How come strike action is never mentioned in the education sector? I understand that some people won't want any actions to have a negative impact on the kids but I haven't worked in a sector that is so messed up.
Got to be honest, the academy I work for don't really seem to care about the kids anyway.
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Most of the public think we are lazy wasters who couldn’t be bothered to get a real job. Striking just backs that narrative
 
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Ian1779

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,497
cowboy1850 said:
How come strike action is never mentioned in the education sector? I understand that some people won't want any actions to have a negative impact on the kids but I haven't worked in a sector that is so messed up.
Got to be honest, the academy I work for don't really seem to care about the kids anyway.
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Like BSB said - there has been a narrative in the media over the last 10 years that education staff are lazy, overpaid and scared of hard work, so we don’t get supported by the public. Now we’ve even been sold out by the Leader of the Opposition - so now not even Labour have our backs.
 
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chiefdave

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,498
The situation in Greenwich is weird.

The local authority tried to close schools early before Christmas due to an increasing rate of infections. This resulted in the government threatening them with legal action and forcing them to stay open.

The government then shut schools early before Christmas due to an increasing rate of infections.

Couple of days ago a hospital under Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust declared a major incident and was turning people away.

On today’s list of London boroughs where the return to schools will be delayed Greenwich is nowhere to be seen. It has a higher rate of cases than areas that are on the list and the surrounding areas are on the list.

Make sense to anyone?
 

chiefdave

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,499
Ian1779 said:
education staff are lazy, overpaid and scared of hard work
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Certainly not my view but I think getting public support for a strike during a pandemic would be very tricky.

As you say this is something where Labour should be totally behind the teachers.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 30, 2020
  • #38,500
chiefdave said:
Certainly not my view but I think getting public support for a strike during a pandemic would be very tricky.

As you say this is something where Labour should be totally behind the teachers.
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They aren’t. But Starmer isn’t the crazy commie so it’s OK.
 
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