More than a third of schools have at least one in 10 teachers absent due to Covid reasons, as some students refuse to wear masks in class or take tests, according to teaching unions. MailOnline has more.
Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Headteachers, said schools so far are largely managing staff absences well, but that education chiefs have warned of trickier times ahead.
A survey by the union found one in three school leaders are experiencing staff absence levels of over 10% as a result of soaring Omicron cases.
A majority (95%) have at least some pupils off for Covid-related reasons at the start of term – and 29% said they had more than 10% of their students absent.
Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has admitted that staff absences are likely to rise in schools in the weeks ahead, amid warnings that heads should prepare for as many as one in four absences.
Mr Whiteman told BBC Radio Four’s Today programme: “Our members are doing everything they possibly can to keep the show on the road and to make sure face-to-face education continues.
“Our survey of 2,000 school leaders this week tells us more than a third have 10% or more of their staff away for Covid reasons at the moment, but they’re managing that reasonably well, with only 7% of those having to collapse classes into larger classes, and just 4% sending children home.
“That’s on absence rates of about 10%, and the government is warning everybody to expect absence rates of about 25%, so it’s going to be incredibly difficult.
“But yet again what we can see is school leaders and their teams stepping up and rising to the challenge.”
Worth reading in full.
Meanwhile, “huge numbers” of pupils at six secondary schools in the North West are refusing to do LFTs and wear masks according to the NASUWT teaching union. It says one Lancashire school has only 67 children out of 1,300 willing to follow guidance.
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Due respect to the majority of students at the six schools in the North West who appear to be able to think for themselves. Lets hope that thousands of their peers follow suit.
“Meanwhile, “huge numbers” of pupils at six secondary schools in the North West are refusing to do LFTs and wear masks according to the NASUWT teaching union. It says one Lancashire school has only 67 children out of 1,300 willing to follow guidance.”
EXCELLENT EXCELLENT NEWS. Good for the students, there’s hope for us all if the next generation are telling this lot of charlatans to go and stick it where the sun don’t shine. Brilliant hats off to you girls and boys!!
Sadly teaching is no longer about the students, policing no longer about protecting the people, medicine no longer about caring for the patients
our children are struggling more than ever before with mental health issues, it’s almost impossible to get an appointment with a mental health worker because they’re in overload as a direct result of what these teachers and their unions have done to them. There’s been an unprecedented number of children who have committed suicide, this has to be laid at the door of the teaching unions and the head teachers and teachers who have imposed these ridiculous restrictions on children whose risk from this virus is so small it’s not recordable. However, parents have to take some responsibility too, testing their children at home every five minutes, queuing up to get an experimental drug jabbed into their children for what? How many parents have actually taken the time to research what they’re giving their children? How many parents are aware of the yellow card scheme? How many of our children have to die or be permanently damaged before we say enough is enough!
If people would ditch their masks and stop the testing this ‘virus’ would disappear!
Spot on.
A challenge devised by their own union. What tosh it all is, it’s all about THEM, and children, as ever these days, are the losers. Where is the great howl of protest from teachers generally? Are they ALL lily-livered, unprincipled cowards?
The Head Teacher of our daughter’s school sent out his usual weekly newsletter yesterday and included the ‘evidence’ provided by the DfE for mask wearing. He’s just following ordersobviously.
Ivermectin help reduce the severity of vaccine adverse reactions. If someone is suffering from a post vaccine syndrome, FLCCC clinicians and a growing network of colleagues have reported significant clinical responses to ivermectin. Because Ivermectin has 5 different mechanisms of action against coronaviruses, the medication is also effective with the different variants of the virus. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
And allow medical staff have it too – there is absolutely NO need for this enforced absenteeism to disrupt medical services.
Chaos in schools is just what Teacher Union ( their Marxist Leaders) want to see
“Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi admits taxpayers paid power bill for his stables.
A Tory MP has apologised and promised to repay part of a £5,822.27 expenses claim for his energy bills after it emerged taxpayers were paying for the electricity supply to his stables.
Nadhim Zahawi, a founder of the market research firm YouGov, said he was “mortified” to discover the error”
Here is a photo of Zahawi looking mortified:
“Mortified”, also known as “Shit, they found out that I’m a lying bastard”
Teachers need to be told to get their arses in to work no matter how poorly they are. And reminded that most have had two years paid leave and enough is enough.
What private business could survive for two years with large percentages of staff constantly throwing sickies?
The government are deeply in the shit for this and are only letting this go on because it suits their agenda.
Any chance government and unions could think of our children?
Just for a change.
Not a chance 🤬
I am so delighted to see that pupils are rebelling against this disgusting “rule”! Shame on the teachers and so-called “leaders” who are insisting upon compliance with the most stupid pointless and worse emotionally and mentally damaging of rules designed only to prolong the fear.
Old Bald Fat Guy sez ‘sadly’ children are refusing (idiotic and invasive) lateral flow tests and not submitting to the (USELESS) wearing of masks.
“This is a public health emergency”
…for Old Bald Fat Guys.
Throw him in the canal.
To gauge the psychology of the NASUWT’s Damien McNulty, take a look at his delivery in this video.
Not once through the 9 minutes and 3 seconds of this recording does Damien McNulty make eye contact with the person he’s speaking to. By implication, this means he’s also not making eye contact with the audience he’s speaking to – the audience he knows the recording is being created to be shown to.
We’ve all met this type at some time or other. That freaky weirdo that never looks you in the face or eye whilst they and you are talking. People generally quickly get away from these types and have nothing more to do with them.
According to Science – What a Lack of Eye Contact Says About You:
You think you’re better or have a higher social standing than the person you’re speaking with, or to. You have an abnormally introverted, socially anxious or neurotic personality. You haven’t organised your thoughts and/or are unprepared.
To sum-up Damien McNulty in my own terms: He’s a neurotic individual with low levels of intelligence and high levels of innate arrogance. His probable continuous attempts to bully others throughout… Read more »
Damien McNulty, isn’t Damien the…
Damien, the primary antagonist of The Omen franchise. He is the Antichrist and the son of the Devil.
He’s reading his script because he’s got no idea what he’s talking about
The children start the revolt.
Good on you kids, spread your defiance to other schools in the area. It’ll spread faster than Omicron!
Good.
I have one or two teacher and teaching assistant (no strong union) friends.
Guess which group has to bear the brunt of doing any actual face to face teaching (unmasked in primaries) lest they catch the deadly disease off the unmasked walking/seated bio-hazards.
And you wouldn’t believe the kafkaesque rules deemed necessary to keep everybody safe.
It’s almost like they’re observing what’s going on around them and responding based on the evidence. You could call it… learning?
Bravo to the youngsters who have seen through the Emperor’s New Clothes arguments about masks.
“This is a public health emergency” says Damian McNulty. What a pathetic moron. He doesn’t realise how great the news he conveys is – that kids are actually finding the courage to reject the tyranny. I wish I could see more of that in my neck of the woods. I suspect but don’t know that the schools to which he refers may be in Pakistani communities. We live near a very large Pakistani community and have many friends within it. They are not buying any of this whatsoever!
Pupils refusing to obey absurdities, complained the unions.
Pupils refusing to wear masks is even happening in the Isle of Man, which has cheered me up no end.
I’m suspecting an awakening and pushback via some social media movement invisible to, and uncontrollable by, teachers, governments and public health ‘experts’, and long may it continue.
Tik Toks revenge😁
The ‘Fourth Wave’ should be that caused by all the politicians and members of SAGE being dumped unceremoniously in the canal!
“More than a third of schools have at least one in 10 teachers absent due to” …………. Them being lazy bloody shysters who are being paid in full to be off and keeping their full annual leave entitlement….. Tbh I’m surprised it’s only 10%.
I’d suggest teachers and their union leaders grow a pair and go for 6 months work experience in a supermarket.
There they can experience what its like to be faced with the general public everyday, turn up for work everyday, and not continually whinge about catching a little germ with 99.8% survival rate..
Schoolteachers abstain from whingeing? They’d never cope 🙂
The only reason ‘schools are in chaos’ is because lazy, militant teachers won’t teach.
A brief note on homo moronicus auto-lateralflowtest-icus
Repeated worry-guts self-testers unquestionably deserve contempt, but it’s worth putting our contempt on one side for a moment to consider how their behaviour works.
The first time they put a stick up their nose and they wait nervously for the blue line, their emotions kinda go wheeeeeee…. Anticipation. Heart flutters. Endorphins.
Then they get the reward: aaaaah.
But in the back of their mind there are the questions “Was I really negative?” and “Should I check again tomorrow”.
So they check again tomorrow… and again it’s
endorphins……aaaaaah….b-b-but?
And that’s the person hooked.
This is called a “habit”.
Their endorphins will now come out to play as soon as they think of the packet that contains the test and they walk over to open it and begin conducting the ritual.
They get off on the anticipation.
Then one day the blue line says positive…and their head goes “nee-naa, nee-naa“. “Where’s my will?” etc.
This is the moment that the idiot so deeply desired. Oops, I mean this is the moment that they dreaded so much.
The poor moron’s emotions go through the roof.
This is “real life” for them, after spending so much time… Read more »
It occurs to me that all this compulsive nasal probing is just a form of socially acceptable nose-picking.
Mass humiliation!
Teacher leave those kids alone
Good to hear that kids won’t wear masks. That is following the science. And if bedwetting teachers are frightened, perhaps they should get another job, ideally a real one.
Some union members should perhaps take a look at their own health, before calling school children disease spreaders.
Or even their mental health
Yes! Go on, kids. Keep shunning those infernal masks and tests.
You don’t need no edukashion!
Edjerkashun, surely?
Teachers logic
The rulers have got plans for the children… There have been a number of indications, going back to before the pandemic.
Guess which group a hit against is most effective, for depopulationist purposes.
It’s those who are not yet fertile but who otherwise would be in the future. And particularly girls.
This current crap about schools – what’s it all about? Might we be talking about the compulsory mass “vaccination” of children when the pi or rho or sigma variant comes along?
The anti-educational sh*thouse prisons called “schools” will be deeply involved
Omicron – why did they want the rate of so-called “cases” (i.e. when you eventually get a positive test after taking several) to be so high? Getting sheeple onto the treadmill of repeated spikings every few months was only part of it.
We should recall the Israeli “wargame” in which they “imagined” and prepared for a future SARS variant that affected children especially.
And here’s one of the reasons why they can do this:
“Gayle McCreanor
@gayle_mccreanor
BBC R4 presenter this morning cut off a guest who answered their question with sportsplayers’ concerns of heart attacks after the vaccine.
Presenter apologised for the “bad lines” then immediately lied and said the guest had voiced concerns about heart attacks with long covid.“
https://twitter.com/gayle_mccreanor/status/1479394227662594049
#DefundTheBBC
It’s not complicated.
Why are we allowing the regime to force us to fund a machine for lying to us and manipulating opinion?
What kind of half-witted infants in adult guise would allow such a thing?
That is some quality seamless lying from the BBC and their little establishment shill. So smooth, suggests there’s a default lie already prepared for such off piste accidents. From 2 hrs.55 here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00132x9