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Thread | Exams?
at 20:58 4 Jan 2021
Sorry if this is a stupid question. I have twins who are both in year 11, and just wanted to check if people took from tonight's announcement that all exams have been cancelled, or if some of the exams will be cancelled?
It was the wording "not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer ......" that confused me. In my head, the 'all' could mean literally all of them are cancelled, or the all could be interpreted as not all of them will go ahead (but maybe core subjects like English and maths might for example).
I guess the details will come out, but I just thought I'd check in with the twtd community to see what other people's interpretation was.
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Thread | School Contradiction
at 14:51 11 May 2020
I'm a parent, and I am looking to gather some views on the primary school reopening, if anybody has some. No problem if not.
To me, the potential reopening of schools in early June looks unsafe. The biggest signal of this to me, is that if it were safe, then high schools would be reopened then also. Sunday's announcement made it clear that year 7, 8 and 9 students won't return before September, and instead high schools were covered with some wide brushstrokes of an 'ambition' to get students sitting exams next year (year 10 and 12) into school at some point before the summer holidays.
If it is unsafe to reopen the high schools, then the only conclusion for me is the primary school opening is unsafe, and a decision has been made based on economic benefit instead.
I understand the logic, regarding getting people back to work, and the need for childcare arrangements. I also understand that for parents, making childcare arrangement for a five year old in year one, is much more challenging than for a thirteen year old in year nine. However the clear contradiction in the decision, shows the government aren't following the science, but instead following the economy. We were told the economy would be second, behind safety, but to me this is clearly untrue on the school decision. Do you think I'm wrong in thinking this?
I understand that no decision has zero risk attached to it, and that perhaps some easing is needed so that the economy doesn't crumble to dust. It seems apparent that opening either a primary school or a high school would push the R value up by some amount. It just also seems very clear, that the R amount rise would be smaller for a high school when compared to a primary school (based on social distancing being easier to implement to 15 year olds compared with 5 year olds, and the school pick up and congregation of people being less for teenagers compared to young children). If we are easing out of this, don't we make decisions that rise R by the smallest amount possible? |
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Thread | Food Box
at 14:28 28 Mar 2020
I read about Morrisons £35 food boxes earlier in the week, and thought they seemed a good idea. Website states box will feed two people for a week.
No chance. Mines just arrived, and £35 is a joke for what you get. To context, I'm a couple pounds under twelve stone, so not a big big eater.
It's a good idea from Morrisons, but no way should they be charging £35 for what they send. |
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Thread | Tax Years
at 21:23 26 Mar 2020
Sorry if it has already been discussed, but does anybody have a sense of whether this tax year (due to end 5th April) will be included in averaging the last three for self employed people?
Do you think the three years are :
April 2016 - April 2017
April 2017 - April 2018
April 2018 - April 2019
Or :
April 2017 - April 2018
April 2018 - April 2019
April 2019 - April 2020
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Thread | Self Employed
at 23:15 25 Mar 2020
Apparently going to be an announcement on Thursday for us self employed.
Is anybody feeling confident it will be at the 80% mark? |
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Thread | Advice needed please
at 11:58 24 Mar 2020
Could I ask for some advice please. I received a text from NHSNOREPLY this morning, regarding staying at home. Was everybody sent this message based on last night's announcement? Or am I receiving this because of an underlying health condition (in my case asthma). Thank you |
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