Parent group UsForThem has urged parents to fight back against teaching unions and over-zealous health authorities that have urged schools to ignore the easing of Plan B restrictions in schools. As of today, the Government has advised schools to drop the requirement that children should wear masks in classrooms and won’t have to wear masks in communal areas from January 27th. MailOnline has more.
Parents have launched a campaign to prevent “overzealous” schools from imposing masks in schools after teaching unions threatened to derail Boris Johnson’s easing of Covid curbs.
Head teachers in England are set to ignore the Prime Minister’s bonfire of Plan B restrictions by compelling pupils to wear face coverings in classrooms.
Britain’s big teaching unions have accused the embattled Tory leader of making the decision to save his own political career as he handles the fallout from ‘Partygate’, rather than basing it on “sound public health and scientific advice”.
The National Education Union warned against lifting Omicron measures “too quickly”, claiming it could lead to “more disruption” for schools.
Its general secretary Dr Mary Bousted called the removal of masks “premature’” adding: “Rather than announcements aimed at saving Boris Johnson’s job, (the) Government should be exercising a duty of care to the nation’s pupils and the staff who educate them.”
Geoff Barton, the ASCL’s boss, said: “There is a danger that we are heading once again for a situation in which the Government gives the impression that the crisis is over when in actual fact there is huge disruption continuing to take place in education.”
Parent group UsForThem, which campaigned to get classrooms reopened during the pandemic, has now urged its supporters to bombard MPs and ministers with letters to “stop overzealous local public health authorities from unilaterally implementing face masks in schools”.
Worth reading in full.
UsForThem has published a template letter on its website that parents can send to ministers in the Department for Education, copying in their MP, if their child’s school is still insisting they wear masks in classrooms.
— UsForThemUK
NEW CALL TO ACTION
#UNMASKOURCHILDREN
Send this quick template email to your MP & @educationgovuk ministers to stop overzealous local public health authorities from unilaterally implementing face masks in schools. @nadhimzahawihttps://t.co/c1Mb1kC7Nr
(@UsforThemUK) January 19, 2022
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Happy to report that in my institution, we dropped it like it’s hot. Sad, but not surprised to see that not every school has done the same. Big respect UsforThem, your contribution to overturning this madness won’t be forgotten.
Good to hear a few kids already able to breathe in oxygen without (physical) restrictions in 2022.
Aren’t they lucky.
If that were the case, the schools would have never been closed nor would the pointless mask theatre ever have been considered. Typical hysterical big statist unions getting in the way of actual sound public health.
I had the misfortune to venture onto the Twitter of the Head of the NEU earlier, and read some of her thinking about the current situation.
Does anyone have a net.? A big one..?
Geoff Barton was an extremely good Headmaster at King Edward VI in Bury St. Edmunds, and in general was someone who had his head screwed on the right way round. However, since going to be a Big Cheese at ASCL, his main concern is with the adult teaching staff, rather than the pupils. I suppose that’s inevitable when anyone takes the Union Shilling.
Could those skirts be any shorter?
It’s a matter if honour with self-respecting schoolgirls to have their skirts as short as possible. Sad to see that the boys have not observed the equally important step of un-tucking their shirts. Perhaps having no face makes it harder to be rebellious.
The mark of a true ‘lad’ was to wear the tie as short and fat as possible, wound far too many times. If the end went past the second shirt button from the collar, it was considered a serious faux pas….
ha this is so true
The boys want to wear skirts and put make up on now as well!
A down vote means nothing; state your opinion. At that age, and especially to go to school, my daughter would not have been let out of the house looking like that.
Do you know what she looked like when she arrived in school?
Actually yes; she has always been very honest.
It’s called manners and morals I believe. You know?
El Sabio is trolling, likely on behalf of 77th Brigade or some other government boiler room.
I think you mean rayc, no, Rowan?
Exactly! We had thick clasp belts, which were perfect for holding a rolled-over skirt in place!
At least these girls are wearing thick black tights. We didn’t!
That you are fascist toward your own kid does not mean everyone else must follow.
Its called good parenting.
Very well said.
Teaching your daughter self-respect is fascist? And yes, it is self-respect, because gentlemen/real men do not like “easy” women – where’s the fun in that?! I want my daughter (and my son, for that matter) to have fun and learn self-respect.
Well said.
Saves time and money?
Definitely, well said, that too!
Do not let financially irresponsible people into your life. Apart from the
governmentmafia, obviously. They have a way with our money, don’t they…We are eroding respect for anything; ourselves, eachother, our planet. Nothing is cherished any more.
Maybe try next time recognizing that your daughter is a human being capable of deciding about what is respectful for herself instead of “teaching” her that she should be ashamed of the fact that she has legs and worried about “gentlemen” who think about her being “easy”.
I recognise that my daughter is a human and she knows that she is in charge of her destiny and that what I say is offered freely and lovingly. She decides everything for herself, I also teach her independence, don’t worry! But there’s a time and a place for legs (and all the rest!); school ain’t it. I remember very well how the male teachers at my secondary school perved over the girls and it was sickening – one Maths teacher even talked to me privately about how he was particularly fond of looking at a particular girl’s body (she was a friend of mine, and I told her about it) – I think it was a cackhanded attempt at making me like him, but I never stayed in the room with him after class for help on anything, ever again.
Masks and the rest of this hell are teaching children (not ours, not on my watch) that they don’t own their bodies. Wake up, rayc.
So, there are no particular minimums of material where you might draw the (hem) line then?
She has other bits as well – if they are not on partial or full display, does this mean it is because she is ashamed of those bits?
What is wrong with knee-height (or just above)?
As far as you are concerned, is the
skythigh the limit?And I guess things like minimum age for alcohol, ciggies, marriage etc, are other examples of repression and fascism?
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I’m just very happy I’m not your daughter, ElSabio.
rayc, you’re really not here for proper discussion, are you?
May I ask – do you have children of your own?
Fascist …. fascist? What are you on ferchrissakes?
It’s because people don’t give a toss/can’t be arsed, or mistakenly think they are acting beneficiently towards those that they are responsible for, that things are going downhill.
‘Fascist’ …. give me strength.
I know I shouldn’t, but sod it – you are a twat.
That you appear not to give a toss about children (I prefer not to call them kids) and society does not mean everyone else should act likewise.
Comment of the hour… if not the day.
Welcome to modernity…
Great, isn’t it?
Relax, amigo: they’re probably boys.
Because dictating masks is bad, but dictating skirt length is okay, I see…
You’ve obviously never raised children.
Who is old enough to remember the expression “pussy pelmet”?
I knew it by ‘fanny pelmet’ but I think we’re talking about the same thing.
Perhaps they should be wandering the corridors in burkas? ‘Letterboxes’ as the Jolly Jibes Bozzman likes to call ’em!
Anyway, never mind their short skirts – do you find their masks sexy?
No. Flaunting her wares at that age, and in that situation, shows a lack of good parenting, and a head teacher who should perhaps look for another job: cleaner in a strip club comes to mind.
I rather suspect you would like them to be.
No.
You gather that from what he has said?
Funny old world. On the one hand, every male is a paedophile-yet-to-be-uncovered; any non-geriatric gets the full blur treatment on the telly – and on the other, it is not unusual/perfectly ok to see barely-teens walking around wearing next to nothing outside of school.
Long past time that the educational Marxists were consigned to the graveyard of history.
We need to push for the mask BS and the vaccine BS to be fully exposed lest the ring pieces in power push them out again, because they will just as soon as they can given the chance.
I heard the other day –
‘Why don’t they swap school desks for resturant tables and then the kids can sit safely all day without a mask on?’
Problem: They’d also need to swap teachers for bar staff who seem to have a much larger general COVID resilience … hold a sec, coming to think of that, I know what the problem must be: unions! Apparently, getting unionized greatly increases one’s risk of dying from COVID, hence, teachers are more at risk then bar staff, and being in the same room as a unionized teacher greatly increases this risk as well, which is why puplis are much more in danger than patrons.
Had we known this from the start, we could have outlawed all unions and/ or exclusively locked-down union members and the pandemic would have faltered in April 2020!
Always pays to think things through.
It’s what you get when you accept or even ponder to the concept of businesses and organisations being above the law and able to do what they want.
Deliberately divisive, purposefully sadistic child abuse. The people continuing to advocate for this are sick and a genuine threat to children.
It’s an article of faith to these doomsday cultists that forcing children to eat shite and say it’s delicious is a virtue.
Interestingly, Dr. Mary Bousted claims that Boris is trying to save his job… Doesn’t that imply that he is trying to please the people, the demos? Surely, this is what you might expect in a democracy?
One would actually hope that politicians would spend a lot of their time trying to save their jobs by figuring out what people want them to do.
Hm. Don’t forget that the zombie masses were screaming for Boris to lock them up and stamp on their faces.
And banging saucepans on their doorsteps to celebrate it all….
George knew a thing or two…
Huge disruption in education? Wonder what could be causing it.
Top Marx to the teachers?
Sadly, bargain basement Stalin.
When will the unions realise they dont get a say?
Their opinion and thoughts are irrelevant and have been for many years. Fine if they want to opine to their members in private correspondence but they should receive no publicity or coverage in the media. It only inflates their already deluded sense of their own importance.
If they want to influence their members then so be it (though it should be the other way around), but their members should be aware when deciding whether or not to be influenced, that its the governors, the teachers and the parents that run the school for the benefit of the children. So if the ‘influence’ runs counter to that then they should leave and find a different job.
These Demon Headmasters need shackling and exorcising.
Isn’t ignoring gov orders a ‘crime’, irrespectively of whether the motive is liberal or procrustean?
So how can they not be arrested?
The NEU conference 2021 called for ‘social justice’, labelled the school curriculum ‘racist’ and said it supported free speech, except for ‘fascists’ – who must be silenced.
Cultural Marxism 101.
If Bozo and Co were really serious about sorting out education the first thing to do would be to call all the teaching union heads in to a meeting at Downing St and then simply tell them the government instructions are non-negotiable. Any head teacher not complying will be dismissed.
Even if the unions threatened strike action they would have little backing from the membership. Those that went on strike couldn’t last more than two months and given the last two years two months would be a small price to pay to restore order.
It’s not as if teachers would have much parental support.
Call ’em out.
Anyone know what the status is on the Austria vote on mandatory jab today? Could be historical moment and very bad news.
I just heard from an Austrian acquaintance that they voted for the mandates.
jeez
History has taught them nothing. Perhaps now somewhere to put the unvaxed.? Maybe somewhere on the Polish border? They could get them there on trains.
They’d have to route through Berlin.
Or through the Czech Republic. Or Slovakia (by bus). But why worry? Apparently one third of Austrians haven’t been ‘jabbed’ and that’s far too many to fit into their prisons.
And they’ve had all these weeks to sort something out.
Exactly – so who knows how the public will react. We all know on this forum that not even half a percent of those will give in – so a formidable force.
Oh F.
But this means all hell is going to break loose. How on earth are they going to enforce it? There’s going to be a massive blackmarket in fake passes. The police will be under huge stress, playing the government’s lackeys. Well, anyway, I guess we’ll see….
Also potentially large and more violent protests. i understand the numbers out there across European nations are astonishingly high
On the ‘News’ here in Finland just now, they’re pushing for little kids to wear masks in schools.
https://yle.fi/news/3-11249610
Remember YLE is the State propaganda channel. They’re still coming out with crap like this:
“Speaking at the weekly coronavirus briefing on Thursday morning, Liisa-Maria Voipio-Pulkki also said that while the third booster dose of the vaccine is not as effective at preventing infections, it does offer good protection against serious illness.”
Austrian police are supporting the public.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/hundreds-of-austrian-police-ask-govt-to-cancel-vaccine-mandate-vow-to-be-there-for-the-people/
The Austrian Ministry of the Interior reacted to the letter by saying that “the people who signed [it] can be assigned a clear political orientation.”
“can be assigned”
You think your mind has been comprehesively boggled – then something else comes along and boggles it more. Unbelievable. Absolutely fookin unreal.
Intoxicated by power/importance. Spiteful scumbags.
Parents should vote with their feet. Take them out of school, like we did in October 2020, as soon as they went back after the first “lockdown” and we witnessed (first and second hand) the UTTER NONSENSE of bubbles, distancing, the lot.
The teachers were saying covid-19 is like smallpox, FFS!
I have noticed huge improvements in my kids. I feel like they’re mine again. Should have never sent them to school in the first place.
I recommend spending the small amount of money on ixl.com and Simply Piano. Both my wife and I have full time jobs. Teaching your kids – especially with tools like the above – is nowhere near as hard the system would make you believe; I already knew that anyway.
Oy vey!
Well, this can’t be good:
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/01/meningitis-b-soaring-due-to-a-lack-of-immunity/
See how serious COVID is?
That or their immune systems have been fucked by the vaccine and they can no longer cope with exposure to that virus.
More performative nonsense on BBC 6 o’clock news tonight. Yes I know, I know. Senior “Nurses’ standing around socially distanced with masks discussing lord knows what. The sound was on mute. Then school students with muzzles on.
The BBC will be the last institution to recant, sometime around 2027, by which time viewing figures will be in single figures.
The end of the nappy mandate has resulted in our work place mandating masks in the office etc for the very first time. Yep. Despite everything here come the nappies. The justification is “work places can now put in any measures they wish”
The building risk assessment for transmission does not recommend masks, they have included the noted harms and also the full BEIS guidance in the risk assessment and the building manager has said “no” to masks for two years. And yet today a mask mandate has been given, just because of the personal beliefs of senior managers. It’s beyond insane.
How on earth do you overcome such nonsense ? Credit to the buildings team they have always tried to avoid mandate / masks and all the theatre wherever possible. They must feel gutted tonight.
Whaaaaaaaat?
Yep. I know. Absolutely mad.
The following is a direct quote defining emotional abuse of children. It is taken from the DfE document “Keeping Children Safe in Education 2021 – Statutory Guidance for Schools and Colleges”. ANYONE working in an education setting is supposed to be aware of the content of this document and to act on it to keep children safe.
I would simply ask people to consider this definition in the context of any / all of the following:
a) The enforced wearing of masks by children in any educational setting
b) The potential for negative treatment of any child not wearing a mask for perfectly legitimate reasons (including self-certification)
c) The tactics employed by government, local authorities, and individual schools to encourage children to take an injected medical treatment, with or without the express knowledge or consent of their parents or legal guardian.
“28. Emotional abuse: the persistent emotional maltreatment of a child such as to cause severe and adverse effects on the child’s emotional development. It may involve conveying to a child that they are worthless or unloved, inadequate, or valued only insofar as they meet the needs of another person. It may include not giving the child opportunities to express their views, deliberately silencing them or ‘making fun’ of what they say or how they communicate. It may feature age or developmentally inappropriate expectations being imposed on children. These may include interactions that are beyond a child’s developmental capability as well as overprotection and limitation of exploration and learning or preventing the child from participating in normal social interaction. It may involve seeing or hearing the ill-treatment of another. It may involve serious bullying (including cyberbullying), causing children frequently to feel frightened or in danger, or the exploitation or corruption of children. Some level of emotional abuse is involved in all types of maltreatment of a child, although it may occur alone.”
So we will have some schools that become mask free zones and others where the kids will still be coerced into wearing masks all day. Will we see one group staying healthy while the other has dead teachers piling up in the playgrounds? It will be an interesting experiment.
I bet one group will feature healthy teachers teaching healthy kids!
(that is assuming that teaching is what actually happens in schools these days)
Sadly the pupils and their learning ceased to be a priority in schools a long time ago.
In my experience there are still a few excellent teachers around but unfortunately most are ineffective, lazy and quite frankly almost illiterate.
One of our daughters has children who attend Bohunt School in Liphook, in the past the headmaster there has come across as quite level headed but sadly I think during these last two years he has lost his mind.
Face masks have been enforced and the pupils have been punished for not wearing them correctly. Now he has gone against government advice and has insisted that the masks are worn.
I have to ask how many of these head teachers have actually done risk assessments and can supply parents with them. How many of the 91 peer reviewed studies on masks (scientific – not opinion based) have they actually read – because if they had read them they would be left in no doubt that the overwhelming evidence is that it is a scientific impossibility that masks don’t stop the transmission of the virus, they are at best neutral with a possibility of long term damage to lungs and a risk of bacterial infections from long term use. There has been NO study done anywhere on the harms of long term use of these masks!
if is was a cynic I might wonder if they were actually trying to cause harm to our children/ grandchildren!
Parents should vote with their feet – take your children out of school. If teachers refuse to work stop paying them – that’s what happened to a lot of people when everywhere locked down whilst the teachers sat at home on full pay doing virtually nothing!
Hey everyone,
Finally stopped lurking and registered to point you all in the direction of last night’s BBC 6 O’Clock News (and again at 10) if you didn’t already see it. And hey Toby/Will/gang if you’re seeing this:
It’s worth watching this on the iPlayer and searching straight to 6m 15s for an piece on the dropping of the schools mask requirement. And an interview with a schoolteacher whose cloth mask is so loose that it takes (literally) two seconds of him talking for it to drop down and fully expose his nose – prompting him to push it back with his hand.
I somewhat doubt he’ll be doing that when the cameras aren’t on him. So, as has been said many times before, performative nonsense.
There’s another shot in which he’s also shown with it flying low, along with another teacher wearing a disposable mask blatantly wrongly – and an adult size dispo adapting so poorly to a child’s smaller features that it creates two massive tunnels either side for air to flow in/out through the path of least resistance.
Not sure I can post pics as a newbie but if so, the one attached tells you everything you need to know:
Boris needs to break up the public sector unions. They have never worked for th3 good of the public they represent.
I wonder if parents should be more worried about their daughters dressed up in drunken Britney Spears uniform than over what cladding they have to put on their face?
If the vast majority of pupils refuse to wear a face nappy is the school going to suspend/expel them all. I don’t think so.
Just tell the communist teachers’ unions’ to bugger off.
Ultimately, these zealots will be fucked over the same as the rest of us. Why are people so desperate to stay in the cult. Have fun on your UBI with only enough money to buy Billy’s insect pie.
(Excuse language but it’s exasperating)
If science can’t be questioned it’s not science anymore. It’s propaganda. They want to rip on people for taking Ivermectin. I researched and saw the evidence on the internet. Research papers are on the internet for those who wants to see. Top respected world doctors are being under defamation by MSM and vaccine manufacturers. I won’t back down recommeding IVM. You can get yours by visiting https://ivmpharmacy.com