How will schools be able to go back in September? (Continued)

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

I'm alright Jack.

Glad I'm out there and was during the pandemic working to keep you on full pay.

And thank you for helping keep the €350 rolling in for so many of us

Great to be back this week and students have been excellent.

Realistically it's a matter of time before partial or full closures on a school by school basis, but there's a willingness amongst staff and students to work things as best we can.

First off thanks and well done to teachers for their part in getting kids back to school- I was in two minds about weather to go down the home school route or not but ultimately my daughter wanted to go back to school. Her mood, demeanour and out look has been brilliant being back in school seeing her friends and her teacher. All your efforts are very much appreciated!


Secondly this thread in weird-
We all know by now that Covid-19 is a roller coaster, one day/week things look positive the next quite the opposite. The way these ups and downs are shared and portrayed here is mental- posters who pop in to link articles they’ve read (or not) but only post negative stuff, then when there are positive things posted there is actually an air of begrudgery from these posters.

Ultimately we live in a world where we have to learn to live with this- there will be further ups and downs, school closures, clusters etc
Most countries are muddling their way through this, some with more success than others but even then it’s ever changing- one week we should be more like New Zealand now Sweden are back in a favourable position after being the bad(worst) example a few weeks ago!

Let’s hope the school situation can be managed, there’s no perfect solution and I know there are some who doubt strongly that it will, but seeing kids back in school and happy to be learning amongst their peers makes you realise we owed it to them to try.

Hopefully we’ll look at Reeling in the Years somewhere down the road (not too far hopefully) and say- ‘Ah remember that Covid stuff, mad wasn’t it‘ before changing the channel and forgetting about it as part of history.

Anyone know of any secondary schools where masks aren't required attire in the classroom?

Hello, just for anyone who read my earlier post about being "extremely vulnerable" category and being only judged as high risk by Medmark.

Finally today they signed me off. They really put me through the ringer, I had to send six emails today alone and all documentation was sourced on my lunchbreaks. I so hope that anyone else in my position is not left waiting too long. All I could think when I heard about the two schools in Dublin and one in Clare were "I hope there are no staff working there who could die because they weren't signed off in time".

Now begins the wait to see if I got infected during work in the last week. I'll be doing my job remotely, whatever that means. It's all still to be figured out but I know for sure that tonight as soon as my head hits the pillow I'll be able to sleep because I won't be wracked with worry about the hundreds of people I'll potentially be coming into contact with when I wake.

Hope everything is going well for everyone else with their new term. There was such a buzz of excitement around the place and all the kids were so delighted to be back. I've never seen them behave so well or work so diligently. I'm very sad that I won't be in the room but hopefully some time in the next year there might be a vaccine and I'll be first in line to get it so I can get back in to them and do what comes so naturally again.

s1ippy wrote: »

You're definitely not alone in your situation.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/hundreds-of-teachers-at-high-risk-from-covid-19-told-to-come-to-work-1.4345104

I can't even imagine having to go into a workplace for six to eight hours a day with unpredictable, unmasked children and be told I can only wear a visor and a felt mask with a window in it so they can see my mouth fogging up (actual situation in my cousins school - she is very high risk and waiting on an appeal from Medmark).

I don't know if anyone here has worn a visor and mask while running around the place for a while. The amount of condensation that forms on the interior of them is tropical.

Fair dues and I hope you didn't get unlucky during the week, though I'd imagine, being clued in, you took every precaution. It was probably a relief for a lot of the reasonable parents of kids in the class to know the person responsible for their child was somebody who is taking the situation seriously. It must have been fairly stressful for you.

Bike visor spray will help the visor not fog up

wirelessdude01 wrote: »

Anyone know of any secondary schools where masks aren't required attire in the classroom?

My sixth year daughter doesn't have to wear one in Business because there aren't that many students in the class so they can manage social distancing.

caveat emptor wrote: »

So given we don't really know the long term effects of this disease what's an acceptable number of kids infected. Should we wait for a kids hospital to be under pressure? In Germany doctors are warning of that.
The infections in schools and daycare centres is not being covered in the media in Germany.
Seems to be part of the strategy. There's 800 closures of classes there but it's not reported.
People having to collate the info from local papers. I wouldn't hold them up as a shining example. Their hospital capacity vastly outweighs ours.
Already a school has had to close in Limerick due to staff having to isolate.

There's really not an awful lot of news in something that is absolutely going to happen anyway. As has been said there is no zero risk but a lot of downsides to kids not going back to school.

caveat emptor wrote: »

There's one white lie dismissed. Of course it'll never be known here as it won't be made public. (on purpose)

i.e "kids don't transmit it in school"

Who is being lied to?

We were told school transmission would be uncommon we weren't told it wouldn't happen, in fact Ronan Glynn has said that cases were to be expected in school.

"He said that while there are no "zero risk options" for reopening schools or any other environment, "international evidence shows us that child-to-child and child-to-adult transmission of Covid-19 in schools is uncommon".

There will be coronavirus cases among children over the coming days and weeks, as there have been throughout this pandemic, he wrote".

Locotastic wrote: »

"He said that while there are no "zero risk options" for reopening schools or any other environment, "international evidence shows us that child-to-child and child-to-adult transmission of Covid-19 in schools is uncommon".
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Depends on how you define "uncommon", it's uncommon for a cat to get Covid.

Also the international evidence he has hung his hat on, is pretty slim and no where close to consensus, particularly when applied to the Irish School System.

But what they are essentially telling us is, it is uncommon for humans under the age of 19 to transmit Covid to any other humans in an indoor environment.

Because "science".