to think it's not fair only key workers can get a school place now have to go back into work?

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Work are wanting us back in the office. It's been hard enough home schooling whilst wfh, soon we will be in an impossible situation. We are valuable members of society too, paying taxes so why can only key workers send their dc to school?

@Aclh13 how have the schools coped up to the start of this pandemic?

What if a teacher or TA isn't in a high risk category? What if they are just in an older age range. Is it still ok to compromise their safety? Risk their life? They are in enclosed spaces for prolonged periods of time, often performing intimate care, no social distancing and currently government say no masks in primary schools. Is that safe for them?
Lives are more important than anything else as they cannot be replaced or caught up on later. Death is it, the end.
Even if it's just a few percent of the population that equals many many lives lost, each one a terrible awful tragedy.

Oh wait a minute ... key workers like to benefit from the status of a key worker but when it comes to the risks ... they are under no obligation.
It's brilliant!

@Alittleodd

This is going to go well.

As predicted.

“Oh wait a minute ... key workers like to benefit from the status of a key worker but when it comes to the risks ... they are under no obligation.
It's brilliant!”

We all benefit from people like drs and nurses having ‘key worker status’. You sound ridiculous directing your vitriol towards teachers/nurses etc.

I'm only responding to @LavenderLilacTree in my previous post.
She/he is making conflicting statements

@CornishTiger yes dual keyworker here too. We juggled to begin with but have sent our DS back for a few days a week. I and a lot of my colleagues are suffering with what seems like a fatigue syndrome after Covid infections.

I would prefer to not have had to work through a Pandemic tbh.

@KeepYourDistance2m nursery children have to adhere to the social distancing, where did you read / hear otherwise?

Yes a full class would be good.

Oh wait a minute ... key workers like to benefit from the status of a key worker but when it comes to the risks ... they are under no obligation. It's brilliant!

If you would like to be a key worker yourself, it is pretty easy to get a job as a deliveroo driver, or stacking shelves in Tesco. It isn’t that hard to get a job as an HCA or ward clerk. Then you too can benefit from minimum wages, shit working conditions in many cases, a high risk of covid infection, and a school place.

Lazy teachers just fancy more time off. They are even talking about only working part time in a September!

Now I have fed a troll or two. The real reason you can’t get children in to school is a mixture of years of under investment, selling off school properties, all but scrapping powers of the local authority and the inaction to provide the funds needed to get them in to school.
That’s why.

"all workers are important"

lol

"it is pretty easy to get a job as a deliveroo driver, or stacking shelves in Tesco. It isn’t that hard to get a job as an HCA or ward clerk. "

I don't think a job being known as low skilled or unskilled necessarily makes it easier to get. There may still be more people applying than there are vacancies and people with similar experience might be preferred.

"Then you too can benefit from minimum wages, shit working conditions in many cases, a high risk of covid infection, and a school place."

Yep, but you'd also get to go out every day, live a life with some kind of semblance of reality and talk to your colleagues face to face!

Yep, but you'd also get to go out every day, live a life with some kind of semblance of reality and talk to your colleagues face to face!

Not for long if you do get infected though. (Ask me how I know...)

I'm a keyworker (front line NHS) but I'm only sending one son in because he has an EHCP (and he's only just started going in for one day a week).

Most key workers I know are not sending their kids in unless they're desperate as they know how overloaded the system is. DS says there are very few kids in - 9 in his class, out of a year group of around 300. Literally no-one he knows. And not all keyworkers' kids.

I'm sorry that you're in a tight spot OP, and no-one is saying that your work isn't valuable, but it's not us (or the schools) that are stopping you from sending your kids in, so please direct your anger elsewhere.

Not for long if you do get infected though. (Ask me how I know...)

Yup - us too!

I'm a keyworker, I work in adolescent mental health and we are run off our feet at the moment. I'm doing this job with two of my children at home because there are no spaces at school. One of them is at school as she is considered vulnerable due to a diagnosis she has.

‘There are not the same pressures on anyone anymore - not NHS, not supermarkets not anyone so I really don’t understand this continued preferential treatment.’

People are dying because of the impact that COVID has had on the NHS. People have been to scared to go to their GPs with worrying symptoms which would ordinarily have flagged an urgent referral for investigations. Mental health crises are at a peak. People are still not ringing 999 because of chest pain. Outpatient clinics have been cancelled for weeks as have MRI scans and other urgent diagnostics. Transplant surgeries have been put on the back burner because there was no guarantee of an ICU bed. The NHS needs to open up again. Albeit with a large group of utterly exhausted and in some cases, traumatised staff. Remember the 50,000+ dead that they’ve just looked after? And now they face rebuilding services for Covid patients alongside those not infected.

But yeah. It’s much more important to get Sharons nail bar open, or let people start flogging flatpack furniture again.
How quickly yesterdays NHS heroes have turned back into the shit on the shoe of the great British public.

I’d like to see ops reply to narurualflavour100 comment.

this continued preferential treatment

Oh, for goodness sake, it's not preferential treatment. Key workers aren't sending their kids to school so they can take a day off at the spa. They are sending their kids to school so that they can be there and make our lives bearable (post, food, etc) and so that they can help us survive when we get ill.

If it's possible for you to work from home your company needs to facilitate that.

All shops in NI are allowed to open and they’ve extended the key worker scheme to include their children if they need looked after in school which is sensible. But anyone who’s been working from home is still supposed to, this applies throughout the UK, so it’s your employer that’s at fault if they’re asking you to go back.

Gwenhwyfar I mentioned HCA and ward clerk, because we currently have vacancies for both in my department that we cannot fill due to lack of applicants. Presumably because they are actually pretty demanding jobs, for crap pay, on a covid ward.

I would love to have somebody with relevant experience, but right now I would settle for somebody who’ll turn up. Check the nhs jobs website, there are hundreds of vacancies.