Schools and Covid 19 (part 5) **Mod warnings in OP**

If the monitors are easily blown off shelves, can they be selotaped / bluetacked / screwed / weighted down ?

That's horse sh1t, so far the vast majority of people have behaved very well and done what was asked of them. I never said that kids should be test as close contacts, just that their families be informed. For the record my mother is not a hypothetical vulnerable person she's only only 77 but has had Parkinson's for 20 years, has cares coming in every day to make sure she's OK and i visit every weekend my sister mid week. If we are told that there was case we can stay away for week and ask a family friend or neighbor to check in on her and make sure she has everything. Simple stuff nothing that is going you keep you from going to the pub.

I dont drink alcohol and havent been to a pub for years. So get tour kids tested weekly and stay away if synptoms. Your mother is vulnerable to all viral infections. And i assume she is vaccinated so the risl of her getting a severe infection is low.

‘I don’t work in a school but I know everything that’s worth knowing about schools, about the practical reality of Covid measures in schools and about teachers’ attitudes to their jobs.’

It must be a privilege to be such a font of knowledge.

Lots of chat about remote learning today in my childrens schools, by teachers to parents

Ours speak to us every day at collection, principal, vice principal and HSLO also have daily interactions with us.

They have conversations with us, about out children and about school in general. And yes, today they were making sure we were all set up for remote learning and the reasons why it was important to get it set up now.

Why would this be unprofessional? Not like they were discussing the terrible ride they got after coppers...

i can see schools shut after xmas for a month or 6 weeks

That won't be happening

Don't think that will happen, vaccine has reduced incidence of severe illness relative to case numbers. You might see certain sectors have reduced capacity, opening hours again but I don't think schools will close again unless a vaccine-resistant strain emerges which is hopefully unlikely.

Delta so good at spreading other varients not getting a chance so far.

Do you have HEPA filters in class yet or are you relying on opening the windows. Noting is stopping you from telling parents of a case, "guide lines" aren't laws and what will they do to you, there is a shortage of teachers, tell the boards of management to back you and do whatever feels right.

Schools went out a message to watch out for kids puking and then testing positive no other symptoms thankfully have you seen that?

I work with somebody who had TB, the HSE contacted the company, we meet with them and HR no name was mentioned we all knew who it was, We all had to get tested, sometimes it has to happen and on the scale of things it's 1 out of 10 so get over it get on with it and do it.

I don't give a rats ass if its xyz's job to do it, if it needs to happen and it's not then somebody else should step in. As far a GDPR breaches of it's tiny, "a child in you child's class tested positive please be vigilant". Companies do much worse all the time and nothing ever happens to them.

Our cub scouts had a positive case who had been at a meeting. They were told by the HSE that they were to do nothing. The advice was (at the time) still that they should be tested if they show symptoms whether they're close contacts.

My own son got it in school. Turns out there was another child with it a few days earlier but noone was told. I don't know if the school were even told. I let the parents of his table mates know.

As for measures like eating in the hall, unfortunately we have 1 hall for 1200 students so that wouldn't work for us. Nor cleaning classrooms during short breaks with one fogger as there are just too many rooms.

But the staff shortages are the biggest problems, both teachers and SNAs.