@UsforThemUK and @lensiseethrough we may disagree on what safety measures are needed in education, but surely your horrified at the government failing to provide funding for the most disadvantaged students in society?
@IsabelOakeshott you recently claimed you and your media colleagues are strong at scrutinising the gov and you were very vocal about vulnerable and disadvantaged pupils during lockdown.
Here's the perfect story for you to demonstrate that
@MAbsoud you are regularly saying we need to rethink masks in secondaries due to what you consider to be a balance of harms. Will pediatrics be speaking up about the failure to financially support are disadvantaged students? What harm will this cause?
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1/🧵So we enter another cycle of the covid news narrative.
GBD group put out another letter
Typical RW outlets amplify it to top of the news agenda
GBD representatives cover the broadcast media with interviews
Much of the scientific community calls it out
2/ Worth considering how the organised well funded and well connected GBD and the skeptic network uses the techniques of science denial. See how many you can spot in the various threads ill link into this
3/The false binary argument they make between remove all measures and permanent lockdown misrepresents their critics and allows Johnson to claim he's the sensible middle ground no matter how much of a gamble he takes.
Pilots for Daily Testing to replace isolation are starting.
Finally got a copy of the operational handbook and official FAQs
Government isn't following the science
2/ Basics: Close contacts take a LFD at the start of school for 7 days to avoid isolation.
All the experts I know say these tests aren't reliable enough for this purpose.
Book says LFDs will catch the majority of cases, this is a bit of an assumption, but it will miss cases
3/ Close contacts doing DCT can only go to school, they must isolate when not in school. This is because they know this does carry a risk. So why are they doing this, seems like the DfE are balancing risk of higher transmission with reducing isolation.They'e trying to be clever🤦♂️
Executive Elections are starting, I encourage all members to vote, read the candidate booklet, attend a husting, members have real influence when they get involved, mass involvement makes better policy in my opinion.
Unfortunately not enough members actively participate in union democracy, this is across all unions and the unions suffer because of it. If you want a better union, get involved, if you want the union to represent you, then use your vote. Candidate choice does matter
1/ 🧵Crackdown on behaviour, banning mobile phones, where have I heard this before?
Leaked DfE policy discussion document August 2019.
The one that talked of backing "reasonable force" to improve discipline, and measures likely to see an increase in exclusion
2/ Thread here with more details on the leak.
Those in the room recognised that the policies would have a disproportionate impact on students from certain backgrounds, particularly Black Caribbean.
3/ Even the language is telling "the SEND lobby" are treated as a nuisance, interesting that UsForThem got meetings with ministers while SEND parents campaigning for their children to get back into school were repeatedly fobbed off.