COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[quiet_riot]

(A third of primary school teachers have never stopped working because they look after the children of key workers.)

NONE of them have stopped working as we've had to sort home learning, online classes, school meals, safeguarding, child protection etc.

 

[stonerblue]

the trouble is the police are in a bad situation with the law, mass gatherings they should be legaly able to disperse them, social distancing is not law and they can do nothing if people decide not to distance,i agree 100% with your post

I'm pretty sure that under legislation passed during the rave explosion (repetitive beats) just 2 people constitutes a 'mass gathering'

 

[nellyonthewing]

All our staff have been working every day since lockdown, some in school with key worker/vulnerable children, the others providing online learning. Every day.
The answer to your question, when it is safe: for them and the pupils and the pupils' families, all of whom would be impacted and harmed (or worse) by this folly to have the children return June 1st.

One of my neighbours is a teaching assistant and her school only has 2 kids attending....
Its a good job NHS staff are not taking the same stance as the members of heavily unionised teaching bodies. There never will be zero risk,what risk there is is low if kids and teaching staff have no underlying conditions, other Countries have been back a month or more .Parents can't get back to work until kids go back. Its time to get back to the classroom teachers.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Gavin Williamson thinks you're all being too easily scared. Gavin can't find or provide any scientific evidence to support this claim but never mind, he's the man "leading" our education policy so he must be dead clever. (rather than just dead, which is what will happen as a direct result of DfE policy).

Given this new research which identifies a threat to children under 10, at least until we are clear what is happening, it would make more sense surely to start back with secondary age children. One constant theme of this crisis has been the old-fashioned centralised top-down approach shown by the Government. It is not the way to operate in a fast-moving digital age.
I am not suggesting we should be over-cautious but that more power should be given to local decision-makers (in this case Headteachers) who know a hell of a lot more about their schools and children than remote Civil Servants.

 

[Chippy_boy]

the trouble is the police are in a bad situation with the law, mass gatherings they should be legaly able to disperse them, social distancing is not law and they can do nothing if people decide not to distance,i agree 100% with your post

You only have to look at the correlation between those countries with more strict lockdowns and their rate of decline of infections and deaths, vs us with our more softly, softly approach. It's taken us longer to peak, the peak has been higher and the decay back down is slower. More people dead. It's really as simple as that.

 

[johnnytapia]

One of my neighbours is a teaching assistant and her school only has 2 kids attending....
Its a good job NHS staff are not taking the same stance as the members of heavily unionised teaching bodies. There never will be zero risk,what risk there is is low if kids and teaching staff have no underlying conditions, other Countries have been back a month or more .Parents can't get back to work until kids go back. Its time to get back to the classroom teachers.

You need to read more. I'd recommend something scientific, preferably peer-reviewed. Then I'd be doing some research on where to put a comma. And an apostrophe. It would help make your last sentence mean something.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

25% UK wide would be roughly 17m.
233k tested positive means about 98.6% were asymptomatic. Really?
Nah.

I really hope that this research is true. If so it would be the most positive story we have seen for a long while.

 

[HelloCity]

Just as a matter of interest when do you all think Teachers should return to work?
- Never?
- When there's a vaccine?
- When the infection rate is much lower and track and trace is in force with full safety measures in place?
- A phased return in three weeks when track and trace is in force and some safety measures are in force?
- In a couple of weeks?
- Next week?
- Now?

(A third of primary school teachers have never stopped working because they look after the children of key workers.)

So, YOU’RE the kind of person who buys into these headlines.

Tbf, I’m hoping I’ve misjudged.

Could you just confirm that you find that headline and article absolutely vile?

 

[nellyonthewing]

You need to read more. I'd recommend something scientific, preferably peer-reviewed. Then I'd be doing some research on where to put a comma. And an apostrophe. It would help make your last sentence mean something.

When a grammar nazi pipes up you know you've won the argument.. The fatality risk to children was recently reported as 0.0007% . Its over 75's when that risk rises to around 1 in 15 of those infected. 70,000 are seriously injured each year on our roads but we don't stop driving.

 

[HelloCity]

One of my neighbours is a teaching assistant and her school only has 2 kids attending....
Its a good job NHS staff are not taking the same stance as the members of heavily unionised teaching bodies. There never will be zero risk,what risk there is is low if kids and teaching staff have no underlying conditions, other Countries have been back a month or more .Parents can't get back to work until kids go back. Its time to get back to the classroom teachers.

This is what happens when you’re completely and utterly brainwashed.