Any Other School Staff Going On Strike?

andyj73 said:
.. My nephew left Unison and joined the other Teacher's Union after they wanted to keep kids off the last time. Have heard others have too.. Glad my youngest kid goes to Venerable Bede. I couldn't praise the staff school enough ..

.. Well done btw ⭐ ..
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Unison isn’t a teaching union. It represents support staff though.
 


PTR said:
I'm seriously thinking of asking HR to put me on furlough, and teaching her myself. The missus is likely to get a request to be a vaccinator before long, so she'll be going full time on that. 6 year old can't look after herself, and key-working schooling wasn't really schooling last time round (they didn't do the same work that the teachers were setting them!), and childcare means no schooling at all.
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Our school are not going to open. Had a mail from them today.
 
janey said:
They did suspend them for NHS staff we’ve been doing them all of the way through!!! As told to
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It must be hard at the minute. Part of you is probably wanting to keep going for the sake of the families you work with and then part of you will be thinking about you and your Mams safety. Everything all the way through has been left to individuals to decide.
 
Botchie said:
A lot of the civil service are working from home and have been since March. How does a prison officer, nurse or copper do that? You like many are completely missing the point. Nobody is refusing to work. They are offering to teach remotely and continue the provision for key workers children and vulnerable children. Every single worker, regardless of their profession has the right to question their employer if they don't feel safe going to work.
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I'd support this 100% but the remote learning must be with adequate teaching support which from my experience wasn't in place last time. Not blaming teachers here as every decision has been last minute kneejerk not giving enough time for teachers to plan and prepare properly.
 
Billericay Dichio said:
Yes I am. Please address my point.
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You don’t have a point. You just made a broad statement that is categorically incorrect in a large number of cases. How does a child recover from 6-8 months of lost education? Care to explain that?
Botchie said:
A lot of the civil service are working from home and have been since March. How does a prison officer, nurse or copper do that? You like many are completely missing the point. Nobody is refusing to work. They are offering to teach remotely and continue the provision for key workers children and vulnerable children. Every single worker, regardless of their profession has the right to question their employer if they don't feel safe going to work.
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Remote learning, particularly at primary level, puts the onus on parents to teach rather than teachers. Are the teachers going to give 50% of their salary to parents, who’ll end up doing 50% of their job for them?
 
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janey said:
They did suspend them for NHS staff we’ve been doing them all of the way through!!! As told to
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My wife has been working as a district nurse in the NHS and they have continued home visits as normal.

For the next period she won’t be doing that as she has started giving the vaccine jabs today.
 
Billy2Sheds said:
I'd support this 100% but the remote learning must be with adequate teaching support which from my experience wasn't in place last time. Not blaming teachers here as every decision has been last minute kneejerk not giving enough time for teachers to plan and prepare properly.
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I just don’t see how remote learning works at primary school level they are too young to sit in front of zoom/teams
 
Baloo said:
Ok. I mean the oddest thing about it is that they both have the same avatar, but that could just be a coincidence as well.
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It's clearly the same person, from some of the details they've posted on here. Not that there's anything wrong with having accounts on more than one forum, even if it's a bit weird when it's for two different football clubs.
 
Teachers aren't some left wing organisation man, the Governemnt trying to pin all their mistakes on hard working people

its absolutely not safe to have schools open, its mental
Billy2Sheds said:
Agreed and we could be failing 1000s of young kids as I can't see it only being 2 weeks either.
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its not safe man.
 
TravellingMackem said:
You don’t have a point. You just made a broad statement that is categorically incorrect in a large number of cases. How does a child recover from 6-8 months of lost education? Care to explain that?

Remote learning, particularly at primary level, puts the onus on parents to teach rather than teachers. Are the teachers going to give 50% of their salary to parents, who’ll end up doing 50% of their job for them?
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I have a primary aged child too. Do I want her at home instead of in the classroom and playground with her friends? Of course I don't. However if we were promised that this would be for a short period of time to suppress the infection rate and get enough people vaccinated so we can open up to a level relative normality then I'd take it. I wanted as many restrictions lifting as possible before Christmas, however the new strain and the vaccine changed the game. The government have it within their gift to do something about it so they need to stop pissing around with tiers and trying to keep everyone happy.
 
Botchie said:
I have a primary aged child too. Do I want her at home instead of in the classroom and playground with her friends? Of course I don't. However if we were promised that this would be for a short period of time to suppress the infection rate and get enough people vaccinated so we can open up to a level relative normality then I'd take it. I wanted as many restrictions lifting as possible before Christmas, however the new strain and the vaccine changed the game. The government have it within their gift to do something about it so they need to stop pissing around with tiers and trying to keep everyone happy.
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But cancelling education is destructive to some kids. A lot more than your kid by the sounds of it who’ll take it in his/her stride
 
TravellingMackem said:
You don’t have a point. You just made a broad statement that is categorically incorrect in a large number of cases. How does a child recover from 6-8 months of lost education? Care to explain that?
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1. They won't lose that much if we act quickly
2 Remote learning - government to provide the tools as promised
3. Stop wasting time preparing children for exams they won't take. Cancel exams now and concentrate on the actual subjects. Teachers are spending time teaching children how to take exams - it's utterly stupid given the situation we are in.
4. Use the time saved by not taking exams to teach more of the curriculum.
5. Add two weeks of school by removing two weeks from the summer holidays holiday.

That's off the top of my head. A little bit of planning and a lot less posturing by the government and things can actually happen.

Now you come up with five ways to cope with the supermarkets shutting down for two weeks.
 
The King of Um said:
It's clearly the same person, from some of the details they've posted on here. Not that there's anything wrong with having accounts on more than one forum, even if it's a bit weird when it's for two different football clubs.
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And on one forum the school cleaner is a he, on the other its a she, so they're both on strike apparently and sending those letters if it's the same person or would prefer to say it was their partner doing so.... very easy to jump to the conclusion that the accounts are designed purely for subversive/topical persuasion activity.
 

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