One in 12 teachers was absent from schools in England during the first week of term, according to the latest data, the BBC reports.
Last week, 8.6% of teachers and school leaders were absent – 4.9% because of Covid, up from 3% on December 16th. This includes large numbers isolating as contacts rather than with a positive test. It’s striking that 3.7% were absent for non-Covid reasons.
The Telegraph reports that class sizes have reached up to 120 pupils, crammed into sports halls, as schools leaders back calls to cut the isolation period to five days.
School leaders have backed calls to cut the Covid isolation period to five days after it was revealed that classes of 120 children have crammed into sports halls amid a teacher shortage crisis.
Dame Maura Regan, Chief Executive officer of Bishop Hogarth Catholic Education Trust, said she would “welcome” the move in England.
She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Personally, I’d welcome it, because I think the most important thing is there are many staff that actually have no symptoms, many children that have no symptoms, and I think it’s important to get staff back as quickly as possible.”
This comes after a survey by the NASUWT teaching union found that nearly half of teachers have been forced to cover for colleagues who were off work due to coronavirus as remote learning hit its highest level since lockdown.
Dame Maura told Today that “one of the biggest challenges” currently for schools is “effective supply cover”.
She added: “I think the most important thing we have to remember is that while it’s significant for all children, it’s particularly significant for those students that are actually facing exams, and many of them have had two, two and a half years, of disruption and to then have a lack of quality teaching is actually greater disruption for them.”
On Monday, Boris Johnson said ministers were considering reducing the self-isolation period from seven to five days for fully vaccinated people who test positive for Covid, with the Health Secretary reportedly backing such a move.
Here’s a radical suggestion. Rather than spending a fortune crippling children’s education via mass testing and isolation, why not just go back to the old system for dealing with a winter flu virus in schools. That was the system where occasionally one person would say to another: “There’s something going round.” Tried and tested, and much cheaper and less disruptive.
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It was good to see a non- distanced, non-masked crowd at the Edgbaston test.
No doubt there will be a massive death spike to follow in three weeks.
I’m due to die tomorrow, three weeks after the great London demo.
Funny that, I feel great.
Aah but that’s one of the symptoms !
But remember Annie, according to the MSM that march didn’t happen! Can’t blame a Covi increase on that, because that’d mean spilling the beans!
Alas, then, I’m playing into their nasty little hands by not getting ill!
It was good to see but I believe proof of vaccination was required as a trade off. Children who had tickets were denied entry as they haven’t been jabbed yet. Vaccine passports are coming one way or the other.
Odd then that the jab documentation says (and the studies the jab were approved on) makes no claims about lowering the spread of COVID, just that it MAY reduce symptoms if you catch it after 2 jabs…
As Children have the lowest risk of COVID problems it would be much better to exclude the fat and old.
I did wonder, Dave; it seemed too good to be true for Moronland.
Watching the French Open tennis semi final last night. Crucial point in the match and the french curfew was due to come into operation with the players being taken off the court so that the fans could be ushered out of the staduium. If the curfew had been adhered to some of those fans might have rioted. Telephone calls were made and the curfew magically didn’t apply to those fans on Court Phillipe Chatrier. If this was a genuine public health emergency that curfew would have had to be adhered to to the letter (bearing in mind the obvious issue that a curfew isn’t going to stop the spread of a very deadly disease). No doubt Paris will be braced for that death spike.
FULL LOCKDOWN COMING TO YOU ONCE HE’S SENT THE OLD FOLKS BACK TO AMERICA
Certainly by the autumn we will see another lockdown. They will blame it on either a new mutated strain, concerns of vaccine effectivity or simply the fact that the NHS is in such a bad way it will struggle to cope with a typical flu season. Remember this is all supposed to be for a virus which the government and their health advisors told us in March 2020 is a mild illness for most people (and has demonstrably been proven by the vast number of people who have made a full recovery)
and then of course what will exposure to flu do to the double jabbed? will they need to be hospitalised?
3 weeks to flatten the curve! come on – this time we mean it!
All we actually need is three bulldozers to flatten this government, and all the rest.
All these news are so depressingly predictable.
As if somebody, somewhere followed a script or something…
sorry, it’s just “The Science”; or both?
How long will it take before the vast majority of people have had enough of this nonsense
As long as they and their immediate and/or extended families are unaffected – very long indeed. A mix of laziness and plain cowardice.
the day of reckoning will have to come eventually though. The government cannot go on printing money forever. We are already starting to see inflation take off and the money taps are still wide open.
And it will not be pretty when it erupts – I can guarantee.
I remember queueing as a child for basic provisions in a long queue in front of an empty shop, because we knew (from a sympathetic source) that the delivery will be in the next few hours.
Oh, and the galloping annual inflation was around 150% or so if memory serves well. That is what living under dictatorship was.
But that’s exactly what this stinking Government wants.
And Biden wants them opened further
Their brains have been stuffed up their arseholes and they cant find it..
David Icke called this ‘scripted’ from the start…
Ahead of us by a year, David Icke is a good watch/read.
Let us go?
They never will.
But the walls of the prison exist only in the ruins of the zombie mind.
Just walk out,
So true. Everyone needs to just get on with their lives.
In the words of Miriam Carlin as Paddy in the Rag Trade: “EVERYBODY OUT!”
Wow, showing your age there Helena
Montezuma will continue to put off the day of reckoning by keeping us all locked up
Not just happening in Sport. The large Flying Legends Airshow planned for July bit the dust at the end of May after one of the Pig Dictator’s briefings.
“In the light of yesterday’s message (27.05.2021) from our Prime Minister, and the uncertainty surrounding the UK opening fully for business, it is with deep regret and a heavy heart that we must cancel this year’s event. We understand the government’s careful position but cannot safely stay the course in the light of the potential loss and lack of clarity so close to show time.
We sincerely apologise for the disappointing news but the circumstances are truly out of our control”
https://www.flyinglegends.com/flying-legends-2021-cancelled
I will be amazed if all restrictions are lifted on June 21st. My expectation is at best some meaningless tweaks but no practical change. This will continue indefinitely unless or until either a) the general population takes to the streets and starts disrupting infrastructure (blocking roads etc) or b) major businesses disobey government “guidance”. I think the latter is less likely than the former.
I will be amazed if restrictions are not increased on June 21st.
The blocking of roads is due to happen on the 21 June in London. Join ‘We Won’t Move’ on Telegram.
Two guests on Royal Caribbean cruise test positive. All guests were fully vaccinated. You couldn’t make this shit up
“You couldn’t make this shit up” – Oh you could – you definitely could!
Problem is the government and their cronies regularly do.
The problem is that people keep believing this…
It’s mass battered wife syndrome, the state means it this time, honest.
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Many people are incapable of thinking critically. If Boris Johnson and his advisors stood in one of their briefings and said that the moon is made a cheese, pixies live at the bottom of the garden and that science has proven the tooth fairly does in fact exist 95% of the population would believe them and be found down the bottom of their gardens searching for pixies or pulling their teeth out in the hope of getting a few quid.
Probably just reverse transcriptase writing the RNA pseudo vaccine back into their DNA making them make spike protein forever.
P&O Cruises now have a ‘no jab’ – ‘no board’ policy. Oh and complimentary PCR testing whilst on board. Makes a change I guess from complimentary drinks!
Talk about a back-handed compliment!
Who would want a drink when you can have a PCR test!
Whatever you think about the vaccines, why would stupid b***ers on a cruise consent to tests if they’ve had vaccines?
It makes the stupid seaples feel saaaaaaafer.
why would anybody book a cruise at the moment – unless you are planning to throw yourself overboard- when the threat of a lockdown and travel ban at a moments notice hangs over us
Stop calling him Boris
He’s the Prime Minister of the UK, who has spent the last 15 using the organs of the state to wage war on the British People
He’s a traitor
May I just highlight another little point:
ruling by dictats and bypassing the parliament (not that they are of any use these days anyway) makes him a DICTATOR as well.
A textbook definition of one.
It’s funny how Western countries are using States of Emergency to rule by diktat in the same fashion as the dictatorships they used to berate for doing this very thing.
Precisely!
So it stands to reason then that Iraq or Iran or Syria (to name just a few) should send an army to invade us and their air forces to bomb all our major cities to the ground in a bid to ‘liberate’ us.
Absolutely. They should also start a search for the well known war criminal: certain Anthony Blair, but then that may be very tricky indeed, since nobody heard of the man since he left the world stage.
With respect, that’s not a little point. That the fat pig dictator has basically ignored parliament says it all. We should have been warned that he would do this when he prorogued parliament. As for our MPs, apart from certain brave individuals, they might as well go to hell, that’s all they are good for.
Just to be clear: I deliberately used “little”, but then you know it.
Ruling by dictat for more than a few months (even if we accept “the emergency”) laids their intentions very bare indeed.
That, in my opinion is the biggest point of all: a lack of even a shred of legitimacy.
yes, funny that, the MASSIVe MSM uproar when he prorogued parliament, for a few weeks, and then when he sidelines parliament in all but name for more than 15 months and…. nothing
He’s Kim Jong Johnson, Boris Corbyn, Jeremy Johnson etc….
I think you do Corbyn a discredit mentioning him above. At least he was honest about who he is and I suspect is actually a full blown lockdown sceptic like his brother.
Too long – make it kim jongson (they doesn’t deserve to be capitalised either).
Once again Johnson = cock, see the Big Lebowski, the Coen Bros. finest
I hate people calling this fucking fraud bastard “Boris”. That’s a stage name and Alexander De Piffel can go fuck himself with a traffic cone, sideways.
“It will now be a pleasant surprise if Boris comes out on Monday…”
No, it will be a pleasant surprise if FatFuck is arrested and thrown in jail on Monday for crimes against humanity.
There’s nothing pleasant about having him as PM, whatever he says or does.
Yes, there is nothing pleasant about the great fat communist turd.
We have the Euro championships starting this weekend with the govt ensuring that the games at Wembley will not be subject to any additional covid restrictions and this will be going on for approx. a month. Meanwhile at Edgbaston there is a test match happening (as Rick below mentions) in which there are no visible signs of any restrictions beyond a small fan reduction.
And the govt plan telling the country that they must lockdown for an extra month while all this continues? Good luck with that±
For whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad….
And yet the cult followers will refuse to connect the dots, despite the lies and all the inconsistencies and contradictions in plain sight.
Way back in wintertime, the time for colds and flu, the players in the 6 nations in scrums, playing,grasping, all were mask free,allowing the dots to be joined up but it passed the public by.
but is is very convenient timing – get the masses distracted with beer and football and the cricket – not to mention wall to wall tennis on the telly and they won’t NOTICE that we didn’t give them freedom day. And sadly, from what I can see, the bulk of people seem to be so dumb this plan will actually work.
Arrest Johnson.
I wonder how many people – globally – you would need to “remove” for this whole charade to end? Not that I’m endorsing such behaviour, of course.
Follow “ze money”
Less than a thousand. In the UK alone you’d only need to remove less than ten.
The spike protein might be a good little helper in that!
I keep thinking of Libya and how Gaddafi ended up: completely off-topic of course!
Just seen that our local church is planning a ‘Back to normal’ event on July 4th. Is this due to divine wisdom or wishful thinking? Sadly I can’t help thinking that it might be the latter if the doomsayers on SAGE get their way. Seems a long time ago that we were just ‘flattening the curve’. Now is the time that SAGE should be flattened!
One of the Methodist churches here is a fucking jab centre!!
Perfect symbol of the madness we have descended into
The Methodists follow money. In many areas they helped refugees gain settlement using government money.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-houston-methodist-workers-covid-vaccines.html
I hope those fired for refusing to risk the experimental jabs picket the hospital.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-accounts-effect-behavior-covid-cases.html
Modellers try to explain away obvious surge of death after vaccination (by adding another variable and a bit more curve fitting correlation explains causation drivel).
Too bad Texas engaged in Neanderthal thinking.
I’m identifying as a Neanderthal.
I went to Neanderthal once.It’s a nice place for a Sunday stroll.
Hee hee – I have seen it suggested that Homo Sapiens virtually eliminated the Neanderthals because they didn’t know how to lie.
46% of those ‘who died with the Indian variant’ had been ‘vaccinated’
Going well isn’t it
How many had ADE, I wonder!?
“As usual, the doom-mongers around the Prime Minister are winning”
I am sick of the repeated attempts by authors ATL to convince us that Johnson is essentially on our side.
Yes, Kim Jong Johnson is a doom-monger.
Absolutely. Have a look at Johnson’s speech to the UN in 2019 to get an idea of just what he is all about. Quite happy supporting totalitarianism so its easy the libertarian bs spouted above the line is just disinfo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf4YEyh7erE
Agreed. I’ll admit it; I even campaigned for the guy to become leader of the Conservative Party. If you wound the clock back two years and told me I would consider him up there as one of the biggest traitors this country has ever seen, I would never have believed you.
Betrayed is an understatement.
Totally agree. He is in charge. The buck stops with him. If he really doesn’t agree with what’s going on but he doesn’t have the balls to say so he is unfit to be PM.
To recap, Great Fat Communist Fraud Kim Jong Johnson has reverted to his totalitarian instincts again.
Having already lowered expectations by insisting on a glacial exit from lockdown, he has decided to dash them completely and permanently.
And the great fat communist is a doom-monger.
“You can check out any time you like but you can never leave.” No words have ever been more eloquently written. It was like they saw the future…
Sorry this is slightly off topic but does anyone else appreciate the irony of Boris Johnson flying the short distance from London to Cornwall and all the various other world leaders flying to the UK (for discussions that could easily have been had over a Zoom call) to preach to us all that we need to be more green and that we shouldn’t fly or have cars, or heating in our homes or any enjoyment whatsoever……
That is not off-topic at all – that shows precisely how much they despise us.
Yeah it feels as though they are laughing at us. They see us as their possessions to be controlled and governed in a similar way a farmer views his sheep and cattle.
‘Irony’? Hmm, more like platinumy!
Just Say NO
Not a suprise I’m afraid. I good friend called me today to say a friend of hers was trying to get a licence as a wedding venue commencing on 21st June and was told they could not do so. The police told them they had been informed by the Govt that the lockdown was to be extended by a further two weeks and so they could not do so until 5th July earliest. On further enquiry they were told this decision would not be reversed. Obviously anecdotal, but I am not inclined to disbelieve it.
Guess it would be pointless for us to make any bets that it will be only two weeks.
We know it will not.
They will loosen for the school holiday 7 weeks and start again in Sep. The framework Bunter set up was made for it.
He will open the weddings up but nothing else on Monday. Last straw for me, they are getting no more tax. All earnings over 12.5k are going to be under the radar. Another delay and the NI will go as well. A months council tax has been stopped as the bins haven’t been emptied for 3 weeks. Time for action, beyond ignoring muzzle orders.
Not so sure about the weddings. Maybe they’d already realised that the thought had crossed the mind of at least one of us (#waves) that we could hold loads of social events with unlimited numbers all perfectly officially – ie by calling them weddings. After all – pagan handfastings, I gather, traditionally last for a year and a day and I’m sure we could do variable length marriages to suit. My turn to “get married” (apparently LOL) first and I’ll make it for a week?/few weeks?/few months? and I’m sure we could find a few other people willing to ostensibly get “married” if it was only for a short period of time/ostensibly/if need be…
That’s one of the things that gets me – ie that there are some of us General Public in the know (because they’ve been slipped the info. as to what to plan for unofficially) – and the rest of us General Public are treated like some other category and deemed to be still in a position we are supposed to be told lies too for a more extended period.
Despite it being expected. It’s still really upsetting. What was that leak from a few weeks ago ? About the Government’s plans and made up variant of concern. Ultimately 6 months becomes 7 and 6 is actually already 16 months. Longest pandemic in history now ?
We are still going to be closed when the EU will already be open. Is Johnson that fucking thick ? Surely, unless it really is a plan to wreck society, he can’t remain popular now ?
Upsetting? Mildly. It’s a shame for people working in sectors directly affected by whatever might have changed – they deserve to try and earn a living.
But the covid madness was never going to end on 21st June because the narrative, the Big Lie, is still firmly entrenched.
“EU already be open” Doubtful. What makes you think the madness will end there any more than here?
As to the PM’s popularity, they did OK in the recent elections, and the alternatives from the opposition and his own party are worse.
This war will last decades.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15241170/boris-johnson-june-lockdown-delay/ now 19th July
FT now repeating the Sun story. Its 19 July.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/uk-extend-lockdown-one-month-indian-variant-spooks-country-vaccine-scramble
This was a deliberate play. “Let them set up events, take the pressure off for a bit, then at almost the last minute ramp up the fear again and restrict them – just because we can”.