Schools to close again.. Covid

Any chance we could please not do this again?

Everyone should be working to the best of their ability from home. It is up to management, boards of management etc to police their individual staff. Not us here

Debating it on boards is just a crap shoot

So you were not really interested then … just looking for another reason to attack me.

@HazeDoll teachers are doing exactly what you say. There are multiple examples of teachers doing 1 email a week or less during lockdown. Parents on many threads confirming that, and other teachers on this thread saying the same.

Were you getting much subbing in the first term? I really hope we do reopen, we have a couple of sub teachers/trainees, not being paid for them is a nightmare, must be even harder for people in that position.

We had kids too really dreading the lockdown, in fairness the staff and support staff are unreal but the level of wrap arounds we can offer in person are just so different.

Health issues and teaching & learning issues aside, my main issue with returning to online teaching is that the very vocal ISSU will be howling for predicted grades next week, without any real basis for it.

No - not wishing to be disrespectful - not interested in a private explanation (public explanation might have value) from an anonymous person on such a forum. Why would I be? You have your own circumstances and that's your business. My only difficulty with you is after admitting you made little effort yourself you turned hunter on other imagined targets guilty of the same misdemeanour.

And if you call what I've done "attacking" you, you have a very sheltered existence indeed.

I can't figure it out since the changeover. Might be worth asking in feedback?

Yes, things will move with great agility and that debate will be front and centre very quickly. But I think no matter what happens with schools opening that's inevitable anyway. I even have come across people in the current Fifth year who are already talking about it for their year on the basis that they were deprived of their JC exams, and TY so disrupted. And I have come across teachers who favour it too.

As for predicted grades this year - I think even if schools open it'll be looked for. And in any event absenteeism will be so rife that schools opening will simply be for show. Will make no difference to disrupted learning. In fact it'll add to it as teachers will be able to do neither in-school or on-line satisfactorily with half a class in front of them.

I count 7 or 8 personal insults which are definitely against site rules. Pathetic that some on here feel the need to resort to that level instead of debating the issues I am raising.

LOL “turned hunter”! I’m stating facts which teachers on here would prefer to ignore.

And yes I am getting attacked and personally insulted. If this was happening in your class to a student who had a view that the majority of other vocal students didn’t agree with would you tell them they had a “sheltered” existence? Interesting pedagogical approach!!!

I’m a bit shocked that you think the personal abuse - and it is exactly that and specifically against site rules - I’ve been subject to is “fair, reasonable and civil”. Again, I’d worry if this is the standard you apply to your teaching.

You should block me and join the other posters in their echo chamber. No dissenting voices will be tolerated, right?

I have directed no personal abuse towards you. If you think otherwise report the post.