Are we specialist education professionals?

[HomeschoolingRefuser]

I think we are:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision

But DP thinks we will be teaching online so shouldn't identify as critical workers because it's not fair. I'm also concerned that the school will use their discretion - but this isn't the point of a policy that you pick and choose who is deserving!

I have a huge workload next semester, barely made it through the last one and still catching up with unfinished teaching because I couldn't transfer it all efficiently in the time I had. Student emails about their forthcoming assessment are incessant, I'm really struggling and in despair.

[GCAcademic]

But presumably the school teachers who are teaching online count as critical workers? You can't teach online with small children running around, and you can't work flexibly given that the teaching is live and timetabled.

The cynic in me says that this guidance is deliberately worded vaguely in relation to university teaching staff.

[HomeschoolingRefuser]

Yes, I thought that. So we wouldn't feel properly-entitled.

[AlwaysColdHands]

I think we are. It’s no different to teachers in compulsory sector who are wfh (I do realise many will be on site for keyworker pupils)

[TheBitchOfTheVicar]

I tutor a critical worker training course, and I am.