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Any Other School Staff Going On Strike?

Nobby said:
They are not choosing not to teach, they are teaching remotely and in the case of my wife, the decision was made by the head, not her.

She spent yesterday planning lessons for tomorrow. They are all now binned and she is now sat upstairs on Sunday teatime planning remote lessons to deliver tomorrow as well as dealing with comments from parents. All on her own time, like every weekend.

But hey she's choosing not to work and should only get 80% pay
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That’s fair enoigh but many will not be able to teach from home. What happens to them?
 

Chalks said:
That’s fair enoigh but many will not be able to teach from home. What happens to them?
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All they need is a laptop and broadband, in the 1st lockdown all her school could teach remotely. So it's a non issue.

The problem was getting the parents to make the kids do the work
 
Hardyman's Yugo said:
I don’t know where you got that from but it isn’t correct. Only thing I can think of is the responsibility of an employee to notify the employer of anything which could be considered an imminent danger to health or safety, or of anything that is wrong with the employers health and safety arrangements. That is the ‘Management Regulations’ which are basically a reinforcement of HASAWA.
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It's section 44 of the employment rights act.
 
Chalks said:
That’s fair enoigh but many will not be able to teach from home. What happens to them?
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If you've got the internet, and a desktop, laptop or even smart phone you can teach from home.

Considering the work teachers do from home as a necessity of their job, I'd be very surprised if many are managing to hold down a job without the above at their disposal.
 
Nobby said:
All they need is a laptop and broadband, in the 1st lockdown all her school could teach remotely. So it's a non issue.

The problem was getting the parents to make the kids do the work
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If the parents work full time even from home this is a pretty challenging task. If the remote learning improves then that will make things a million times better than what I experienced last year.
 
Chalks said:
Yes she has had it, but doesn’t stop her spreading it to others .If she and many others chose to not go to work what would happen then? Would they get the support the teachers are?
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The question about does the vaccine prevent transmission is currently unknown.
Health care workers at least have access to PPE although my opinion is that except for red areas it isn't good enough (which for me has been borne out by my own experience in acute hospital care where literally scores of my work colleagues have been infected). My wife is a teacher. She doesn't want schools to close. She just wants it to be safer than they are currently. If we can't make schools safe then at least protect the staff with vaccination. Something which has occured to me (although I haven't yet formulated a final opinion) is that if schools are driving the current massive infection rate then maybe we should be vaccinating kids as well as a priority - if vaccines do prevent transmission then this would be a good idea but as I have already said we don't know if they do. My final point is that we also don't know if there are long term health implications for kids who are infected even if they do have no symptoms or a mild illness.
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Hansel said:
The question about does the vaccine prevent transmission is currently unknown.
Health care workers at least have access to PPE although my opinion is that except for red areas it isn't good enough (which for me has been borne out by my own experience in acute hospital care where literally scores of my work colleagues have been infected). My wife is a teacher. She doesn't want schools to close. She just wants it to be safer than they are currently. If we can't make schools safe then at least protect the staff with vaccination. Something which has occured to me (although I haven't yet formulated a final opinion) is that if schools are driving the current massive infection rate then maybe we should be vaccinating kids as well as a priority - if vaccines do prevent transmission then this would be a good idea but as I have already said we don't know if they do. My final point is that we also don't know if there are long term health implications for kids who are infected even if they do have no symptoms or a mild illness.
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I’m not sure any of the vaccines are certified for under 18s currently.
 
Seems some schools are opening some are not. I’m talking primary schools in Hartlepool. Forgive me for thinking that if these teachers were not getting full wages a lot would not be so keen to down tools.
It’s not as if there has been an abundance of teachers getting the virus.
 
Chalks said:
I’m not sure any of the vaccines are certified for under 18s currently.
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That would make them unlicensed like many meds given to kids. The current emergency authorisation also means that the vaccine is currently unlicensed in adults as well. The proposed change to scheduling and proposal to mix and match different vaccines are also not borne out by trial evidence. It's a shit situation. Someone would have to decide if the benefit to kids (and the wider population) exceeds the risk. I don't know the answer. Like I said I haven't made up my mind on this one.
 
T_Bone said:
Seems some schools are opening some are not. I’m talking primary schools in Hartlepool. Forgive me for thinking that if these teachers were not getting full wages a lot would not be so keen to down tools.
It’s not as if there has been an abundance of teachers getting the virus.
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I know a few teachers and none of them want the schools to close, they still have to go to work anyway to teach vulnerable and key worker kids plus sort out remote learning for the others. Also Many teachers have children themselves to sort out due to schools being closed.
Worst of both worlds.
I don’t think it’s a case of just wanting time off on full pay.
 
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Andy_Roker1983 said:
I know few teachers and none of them want the schools to close, they still have to go to work anyway to teach vulnerable and key worker kids plus sort out remote learning for the others. Also Many teachers have children themselves to sort out due to schools being closed.
Worst of both worlds.
I don’t think it’s a case of just wanting time off on full pay.
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I do.
 
People saying government not making a decision - they have made one it’s that schools go back apart from ones they’ve said.

Now it might not be the decision which is right or that people want but they have made a decision
 
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