Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Bruce Wayne]

Well those figures show that over 50% of teachers have still been working at least 5-7 hours a day for the month of April. And around 25% have still been working 7-9 or more. Those teachers haven't been having much of a holiday have they. And again, why should kids who have been working from home miss out on an actual holiday?

Because society should be catered for the most vulnerable? I've no concern at all for middle class families as it looks like they have been keeping up. Working class families however, appear not to be. It's well known that poorer kids regress during the holidays, so we'd be adding that to three or four months of regression before the holidays.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

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It is CQC's statutory obligation to investigate deaths in care homes, nursing homes and care in the community. No wonder there are angry relatives and friends.

Ring of steel round care homes, even before the rest of us went into lock down, Johnson and Hancock are on the record, in Parliament and daily briefings...

 

[mill]

I don’t really get that chart. What’s it saying?

 

[Bungle]

I’m still massively in two minds about the school thing.

As a parent do I want to risk my daughter being exposed to a virus we can’t combat yet? (No matter how low the odds are for her). Do I want to expose others? Expose children with vulnerable people at home? Expose teachers? Plus she’s of an age where she cant go to school and given the geography round here the drop off and pick up side of things will be problematic (and difficult to fix really).

However, on the other hand I’m really concerned about the effects this will have on her if it was long term. She needs to be around peers first and foremost. In a classroom setting. Taught by professionals. It’s a great little school and I don’t want her missing out on those experiences at all. Plus I’m looking at it from a privileged perspective. There are a lot of vulnerable children out there. It reminds me of my old primary school headteacher. She hated school holidays because she worried about the vulnerable kids. She said at least she knew that they were getting a proper meal each day when they were in school. It’s easy to think that everyone’s experience of lockdown is similar to our own.

I’m massively conflicted by it all. If I’m honest, I don’t really have any confidence in this government that their actions are well intentioned. I’m not trying to get into a political debate here, this is just my personal opinion. They’ve shown in the past their intentions and the lengths they are willing to go to and so I don’t feel particular comfortable with their decision making. At least that their motives are right.

This isn’t a political view by the way. It’s not about ideology. I know there are lots of valid economic, social and political philosophies and we all just pick the ones that suit us most closely.

It’s that those people, particularly the inner circle, are callous and self serving. They don’t care about the working classes. They are on record what they think about them. Also on record what they think about vulnerable people.

That’s the issue for me. I don’t have faith they’ll do the right thing which makes it harder.

I got the weekly newsletter from the kids primary school this morning and the level of frustration from them in that is evident.

They obviously can't say the government are clueless tossers outright, but that's what they've said in a roundabout way and I have every sympathy for them. They've mentioned that guidance is changing multiple times during the course of the day and schools that had put plans in place for returns have had to rip those up and start again. I've pretty much written this school year off now and unless something drastic happens mine won't go back until September.

I was fairly adamant ours would go back to school at the earliest opportunity but having seen the communications coming from the school and seeing how the government have handled this overall it doesn't seem the right thing to do for either the kids or the teachers. I'm praying that Fortnite and Minecraft are providing some sort of solid footing for any future occupation they might havr that incorporates heavy weaponry and construction.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I don’t really get that chart. What’s it saying?

https://teachertapp.co.uk/what-are-teachers-doing-at-home-and-where-are-you-doing-it/ explains the full research

 

[Lee Smith]

Because society should be catered for the most vulnerable? I've no concern at all for middle class families as it looks like they have been keeping up. Working class families however, appear not to be. It's well known that poorer kids regress during the holidays, so we'd be adding that to three or four months of regression before the holidays.

Ok, so it's a class thing then? So you'd be ok with "middle class" students having a summer holiday as they're more likely to have been keeping up with the curriculum? But working class kids would have to work through it?

 

[Barnfred 55]

The kids went back to school in one town in Finland on Thursday ,now one pupil has tested positive and seven and kids and four teachers are in quarantine !
Yet they are doing their utmost to get the Premier league going again .At the moment that is insane .

The kid must have had it before going back to school. He didn't catch it there.

 

[COYBL25]

I got the weekly newsletter from the kids primary school this morning and the level of frustration from them in that is evident.

They obviously can't say the government are clueless tossers outright, but that's what they've said in a roundabout way and I have every sympathy for them. They've mentioned that guidance is changing multiple times during the course of the day and schools that had put plans in place for returns have had to rip those up and start again. I've pretty much written this school year off now and unless something drastic happens mine won't go back until September.

I was fairly adamant ours would go back to school at the earliest opportunity but having seen the communications coming from the school and seeing how the government have handled this overall it doesn't seem the right thing to do for either the kids or the teachers. I'm praying that Fortnite and Minecraft are providing some sort of solid footing for any future occupation they might havr that incorporates heavy weaponry and construction.

Funnily enough I`ve just been reading an email from my lads school, that says the exact same thing.

The headteacher describes the date of June 1st for a return as being " plucked out of thin air " and he reiterates that under no circumstances will the school be opening on June 1st.

In Liverpool it seems that the schools are pretty resolute over this.

 

[COYBL25]

Ok, so it's a class thing then? So you'd be ok with "middle class" students having a summer holiday as they're more likely to have been keeping up with the curriculum? But working class kids would have to work through it?

I don`t think that`s what he`s saying mate, he`s actually agreeing with you.

 

[mill]

https://teachertapp.co.uk/what-are-teachers-doing-at-home-and-where-are-you-doing-it/ explains the full research

Thanks. I see what it’s showing now. I couldn’t work out what was being displayed.

 

[Barnfred 55]

The kids went back to school in one town in Finland on Thursday ,now one pupil has tested positive and seven and kids and four teachers are in quarantine !
Yet they are doing their utmost to get the Premier league going again .At the moment that is insane .

Hopefully none of those in quarantine catch it as it will be further evidence thatthe risk of spreading in schools low, which is good news. Isn't it?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Thanks. I see what it’s showing now. I couldn’t work out what was being displayed.

Aye, it's not the easiest way to display the data.

 

[Jebus_lives]

I got the weekly newsletter from the kids primary school this morning and the level of frustration from them in that is evident.

They obviously can't say the government are clueless tossers outright, but that's what they've said in a roundabout way and I have every sympathy for them. They've mentioned that guidance is changing multiple times during the course of the day and schools that had put plans in place for returns have had to rip those up and start again. I've pretty much written this school year off now and unless something drastic happens mine won't go back until September.

I was fairly adamant ours would go back to school at the earliest opportunity but having seen the communications coming from the school and seeing how the government have handled this overall it doesn't seem the right thing to do for either the kids or the teachers. I'm praying that Fortnite and Minecraft are providing some sort of solid footing for any future occupation they might havr that incorporates heavy weaponry and construction.

This has been a feature of almost everything the Government has done throughout this Pandemic response. I get the feeling they've been in such a hurry to issue guidance and advice that they haven't been going through the necessary checks.

Same with care home pathways, for example, it changes on a daily basis.

 

[mill]

Aye, it's not the easiest way to display the data.

It was the ‘self reported, %’ that threw me a bit.

 

[COYBL25]

Because society should be catered for the most vulnerable? I've no concern at all for middle class families as it looks like they have been keeping up. Working class families however, appear not to be. It's well known that poorer kids regress during the holidays, so we'd be adding that to three or four months of regression before the holidays.

Only my opinion, but the best thing they could do is wipe the block of learning for the period whilst they`re at home, off any future exam papers.

There`s just too much disparity between schools across the country and yet again it`s the kids from poor areas / backgrounds that will suffer.

Without getting political, how can it be right that kids from one school get a couple of hours a day online ( if you`re lucky ) and kids from the school down the road are doing a solid five hours a day in front of a screen with a teacher ?