Apologies- I don’t want to ‘teacher bash’ as some say, I respect the professions those who have chosen teaching as a vocationall, but regular classroom teachers aren’t school leadership, so called school management which in many cases includes ‘Business managers’ ‘ operations managers’ and others dotted throughout trusts and academy’s.’ Most definitely not teaching staff. Other industries have had to step back and look at operations, and make the call on how & when they can resume work - major employers in manufacturing, distribution- many have done so. They have said what can be done, what can’t be done practically, and when they can resume operations. Some are now, some are soon, some are weeks away from what could be deemed reasonable. Either way there is proposal, there is a timeline.
@hopefulhop
I'm partly highlighting because your follow up post was actually very well-thought-out and certainly not what I expected from your original post (I actually thought you decided to throw a little vitriol into the internet and head to bed!). I'm still not totally sure why you think that schools haven't tried planning in the last 8 weeks.
But your post actually really highlights how industry have it different to schools. I believe I'm right to say that private industry have a reasonable level of say in when and how they go back to work. Obviously some sectors have not been allowed to until a certain time, but none have had government dictate when they had to open (except, I presume, supermarkets).
State education is different. Schools have been tentatively planning, like industry. But this week, primary schools have had a date set when they must be prepared to open. Not just open, but open in a certain way, to nearly half of all pupils. They only had that date set this week, and (what I think are) the final guidelines were only released yesterday. So plans are now accelerating.