Schools closed until February? (part 3)

TTLF wrote: »

Friends and I at a loss on what will happen. I know last years 6th years had a real tough time but imagine current 6th years with constant fears of lockdowns, cancellations of stuff needed for LC and grinds cancelled/moved online to try continue teaching

It’s a nightmare and my grades have suffered as a result. I find it way harder to focus at home then at school (I’m sure most students do) but I really rely on after school study as a quiet place to focus and try do well.

My Christmas physical grinds were cancelled from Wednesday and moved online which I started today. Im thankful that they had the resources to do that, however it made me realise how horrible working from homeschool is, I got a surge of all the unneeded zoom memories of just sitting in a class call, mic muted eating cereal and paying half attention to my clearly bored and rightly upset teacher try to teach from a crappy laptop and webcam while trying to write stuff down on my desk at a weird angle because of my computers setup. I’m thankful I had a lot more resources than other kids might have but my point is that online school just doesn’t help retain the same info I’ll ever get in a class, even if class is more “boring” I’d prefer it over what could come.


But I also need to think of my health, the new strain isn’t helping things especially for me and I’ve had to cut contact with seeing my friends outside for the rest of winter break after I saw today’s cases and backlog. I don’t know when I’ll return to school but I hope it isn’t In 5 months time and I’ve had to sit my mocks at my desk I’m my room because that’ll be an absolute nightmare.

My geography field study has already been cancelled so I’m not sure what my schools gonna do there, thankfully it’s the only practical work I need to do (don’t do DCG or tech or anything) but it’s still frustrating to see this go down again. It’s pain. It’s actual pain and it’s making me worry a little even though I can’t control it. An extended Christmas break feels great until you realise the seriousness behind it.

I hope everyone’s doing well for themselves recently and hopefully January isn’t as bad of a month mental health wise as it’s looking to be for me

Gosh_idiots wrote: »

My dad is also going through cancer treatment too.. while your situation is unfortunate and obviously would be incredibly stressful.. I still don't think it should be up to the creches to have to remain open to take care of other people's kids. We're in a pandemic. We need to stop mixing or keep mixing to a minimum! Keeping creches open creates an opportunity for so many different kids from all over can mix and carry the virus home to their families.. Schools too! I know there's not a whole lot you can do in your situation but it's just unfortunate that you have to even be in this position. Imo everything should be shut down.. Ports..schools.. Gyms.
Shops.. Keep the grocery stores open with tight restrictions, garages for fuel etc.. But just the bare minimum. Have everyone stay home, protect their families and have a chance to look after their own kids during such a crazy difficult time for many.

wirelessdude01 wrote: »

What you suggest while a great idea and probably what would happen in my ideal world won't be occurring here. When you have the likes of HomeStore and More and Harry Corry still open under the essential shops mandate, people will just go to them for something to do.l and a browse.

Gosh_idiots wrote: »

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Shops.. Keep the grocery stores open with tight restrictions, garages for fuel etc.. But just the bare minimum. Have everyone stay home, protect their families and have a chance to look after their own kids during such a crazy difficult time for many.

Str8outtaWuhan wrote: »

Schools will be back on the 11th , You have to trust our government when they say this.

TTLF wrote: »

Thank you for that, it brought a lovely smile to my face. While I agree with wanting to see my friends, the unfortunate part behind this is they're not as compliant with the rules. (They like going around town taking photos all day) which I'm not so comfortable with. Also I have an underlying health condition so I have to be 3x more careful. I was lucky I could attend school back in September but of course, the situation back then wasn't at the very dangerous situations it's at now. Really unfortunate for me because I was planning to get private grinds to help me in a class I'm failing since it doesn't come easy to me but I doubt I'll be able to properly do that until after the mocks at this stage.

Here's to hoping I manage to maintain my grades during this awful pandemic. In my opinion, I think they need to altar the course even more and hopefully they will if things are looking as they are now and we don't go back. I'd be genuinely surprised if we were reporting +2000-2500 cases a day and told "yep, go back there" with that new strain.

Even the UK seems to be fighting for closing all schools although I'm not sure how well this article is.
https://news.sky.com/story/teaching-unions-tell-pm-do-your-duty-and-close-all-schools-in-england-to-limit-covid-threat-12177145

It won't happen but even small clarity would be a small ease. We're going into the "real knuckle down stage" of the LC and now I'm already missing 3 extra days of education and the one and only field trip I was looking forward to.. (Geography is my favourite subject ) so I guess I'll try motivate myself to keep studying in my room, but it's going to be a tough one.

Once again, thank you for your kind words.

C__MC wrote: »

Why not close the schools for a month as holidays ?
Work the Month back in june , alter jc and lc exams for july. I wouldn't have an issue with this.
Online learning just dosent work

Clouron wrote: »

I agree though, online learning doesn't work, it was OK in absence of alternate during a crisis. But it's only info exchange, not real learning..

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

Schools will be back in some physical capacity on the 11th, id put money on it, they've completely cut close contact testing now so in a weeks time far less will be tested and numbers will be down. They will bend every rule in the book to get them fully opened on the 11th

jester77 wrote: »

Germany is not extending holidays. They pushed the mandatory return of children back 1 week, the children have the option to attend school or study from home.