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28th December NEU Press Release
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Karam Bales Profile picture
29 Dec
1/ Oh @halfon4harlowMP this interview is a shocker for selective quoting, and it appears you haven't read or understand what SAGE have said about school and students

This is full of fallacies
2/ "Transmission is low" You're quoting the PHE report on infectiousness of children, this line has done a lot of work in UK media and also in other countries but its a misquote
The report said they had "low confidence" in this statement, see for yourself
3/ Report did say they had high confidence schools returning would have significant impact on RO, they said the reports findings of low transmission could only be applied to schools during lockdown with limited student numbers and shouldn't be applied to September opening
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28 Dec
1/ Lot of media coverage for UsForThem in the last few days.

For a small grassroots organisation they've managed incredible coverage and access.

While DfE won't answer NEU FOIs on how many workers have died, UsForThem get into government meetings in no time

How?
2/ UsForThem Summer newsletter was sent to me.

When you consider parents groups campaigning for more safety measures in schools, considerations for CEV families campaign just as hard, UsForThem have done very well in media coverage.

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3/ They even got a meeting with Johnson, for grassroots they are particularly legitious liking pre-action letters.
Take great pride in preventing masks being worn in schools.

Bit of an anti union vibe going on

And I guess having a mysterious non disclosable advisor helps.
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27 Dec
@MaajidNawaz on @LBC
"Infamous Neil Fergusson"
"Suspicious pro lockdown"
"Exporting the Chinese lockdown method"
"Chinese propoganda"
Lockdowns are a Chinese conspiracy to undermine the West
Raising issue of pro lockdown bots, no mention of pro herd immunity bots and GBD bots?
So he's smearing Lancet and Richard Horton of potentially being Chinese stooges, raising issues of Chinese spies.

He says pushing for global lockdowns are good for China,China is growing after a harsh lockdown, but if we do the same its for Chinas benefit and will hurt us
The way he's just gone about attacking and smearing a long list of scientists, just stopping short of accusing them as apologists for genocide, yet he won't accept people criticising those behind the GBD.
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26 Dec
Having experience of working with teenagers targeted by County Lines, decriminalisation would severely damage the ability of these gangs to profit, making fast money is a key pull factor for these students who see parents working hard but still struggling to pay the bills
Worth pointing out that its not just poor neglected pupils that are being drawn into county lines, I know middle class educators who set clear boundaries, and a group of privately educated very privileged students who all got temped into this world.
Its happened for years but the gangs are becoming more organised, better resourced, more violent and more manipulative.
County lines also comes from lack of a national strategy, London had a crack down and they just jump on the train to places like Reading.
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22 Dec
1/ Thread: Summary of the Test&Trace Q&A for school leaders.
Friend sent me a link so I could see what they had to say.
Attendance was low, but don't worry you didn't miss much, "more guidence on the way" was a stock answer
2/This meeting covered testing everyone in secondary and colleges in the first week back, the aim is to test everyone twice with LFTs by 11th Jan and then to be set up for daily testing of close contacts to avoid isolation.
"Still working out details" was also a common answer
3/ There was some acknowledgement that LFTs are less reliable, they accepted there could be false positives, "a positive test needs to be confirmed with a PCR, these are the gold standard"
What are LFTs? Silver? Bronze? Scrap metal?
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21 Dec
So schools are believed to be driving the new strain, DfE guidence was drawn up predicting low transmission.
Rethink now
If you consider the front page of DfE guidence it still says decisions should be made at a local level.
Remote learning can still count as a full education, government has defined this.
Every whole school risk assessment is now out of date due to new evidence

Every individual risk assessment is also now out of date

Particularly in Tier 4

Hancock "school age students are driving transmission"
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