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which is good news.
The French didn't think so, I suppose Boris might.
Looks like returning on the first of June is a complete non event. Head of our secondary has basically said until the government provide the guidance needed for face to face contact time they won't reopen. Don't blame him, would be a reckless head in the current climate who took it on themselves to reopen when most others werent.
the climbdown continues. The aim is now ” june the first at the earliest”
That was always the stated intention, so hardly a climb down.
Shambolic and chaotic
As much due to media reporting than government policy
the climbdown continues.
If it doesnt go as planned they just blame teachers and unions, win win
Don’t blame him, would be a reckless head in the current climate who took it on themselves to reopen when most others werent.
Like mine, set to reopen on 3rd june
Local school has 16 out of a possible 180 confirmed to attend next week. There doesn't seem to be much support for this from the parents, even in a dyed blue conservative area.
My daughter in Y10 was due back next week 1 day a week. Now delayed to week of 15 Jun on government advice.
i wonder if they will push back primaries? If they dont i feel they will be the exeperiment so see how it will go ahead. Not really fair and reckless to make them open on June 1st
Our head now fighting against any return of staff before August (Scot secondary). Which will be a complete mess when we do return. We need in for resources off the network. To do the blended learning.
Feeling is the deep clean just won't happen before summer so can't go in, union red line.
A primary school here has had to close to the key workers kids going in after one of them and their parents tested positive. So, that's a bunch of key workers without childcare.
Wider opening increases that risk.
I work in a sixth form college in England, but our summer holiday dordn't line up with the usual English one, being two weeks earlier. The 15th June announcement means we'd only have two teaching weeks for our Y12, making any attempt to reopen especially pointless.
I don't think I'll be in work again until 14th August.
My daughter in Y10 was due back next week 1 day a week. Now delayed to week of 15 Jun on government advice.
My secondary school said 3rd, then 10th and now is back to 15th.
Onehundredthidiot, why deep clean? The studies done so far don't suggest the virus stays viable for more than 7 days on any surface, many including cloth is as low as 2 days. Just close the building for 10 days, job done (and the chances of there being much virus on surfaces is pretty low anyway unless you've knowingly had an infected person in recently.
I see they're aiming for at least 4 weeks back for all primary kids. No chance, between the unions, cautious parents, unworkable social distancing and stupidly short days meaning people can't go back to work there's no chance.
What is the point of going back one day a week? Increases transmission risk for negible educational value whilst putting ridiculous extra stess on teachers, diverting them away home learning just as everyone is getting used to it. Everyone should have gone back from 1st June on a normal timetable, or at least they should have if the government hadnt made such a mess of things. September full restart seems the sensible option now.
stumpyjon
What is the point of
Increases transmission risk for negible educational value
They couldn't have chosen less educational value than primary reception, yr-1 and yr-6
diverting them away home learning just as everyone is getting used to it
Other than doing his SATS junior in Yr-6 has basically be asked to draw something or similar busy work. This is released randomly through the day so he basically has to sit in front of a computer to check what/if the 30 mins of "work" for 6hrs... meanwhile his mother is sharing the laptop providing support to Yr-1 that parents can do easily* (She's also supporting some non English speaking parents)
of going back one day a week?
It's not rocket science... but regardless the years chosen provide the minimum numbers of people who could return to work. If we have an average number of kids >1.5 (1.9 being accepted) per family and the average age differences are 2-3 yrs then very few parents will have ALL the children in the years even IF they were to go back at the same times.
Risk? Significant numbers of reception are not even potty trained... how on earth is ANY sort of social distancing even possible?
I can't see how if they tried they could have found a combination offering lower educational value for a minimum return to work?
Head of our secondary has basically said until the government provide the guidance needed for face to face contact time they won’t reopen
If you are in Manchester or Lancs it's the council who have said no to 1st June; heads were going along with it until yesterday
Why don't we ask the kids? They know the place best.
More or Less, BBC R4, with a good bit about kids and schools from Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter.
how is he still in a job ??
Ex-chief whip innit?
Government reasoning = If the kids go back to school, the parents can go back to work to feed the economy, the economy being foremost in their thinking.
Which has led to the little spreaders contracting it and passing it all about.
You can pretty much time government rulings like this to the virus going manic.
But this is what you get when you vote someone who is a classed by all as a bumbler, who has failed in every task he's ever been given.
Im expecting at the end of this, with maybe 100,000 dead the tories self congratulating themselves about the success of beating the virus.
If we don't get through this with less than 120k dead we will be doing well.
We are both classed as critical workers but have decided we can make it work and are keeping our one out of school for now. The space can go to someone who needs it