Debate with friend about schools opening. Who was unreasonable?

[Freyaaaaaa]

I just got back from a walk with my friend. She is a secondary school teacher, I work as a HLTA in a primary school.

Friend thinks it's too early for schools to open and that she hopes they close again by October.
I said it's been long enough and children need an education. That will be almost a year off school which for many children will be absurd!
She thinks that schools opening just won't work and that she agrees almost a year off is bad but at the same time health is more important.
My opinion is yes health is important but we can't mess up our children's educations! And being in school one minute then closed again will do more harm than good.

The debate got quite heated as I said plenty of other people are managing to be back at work and so should we,
But apparantly I was being small-minded.
We changed conversations but things still seemed quite tense.

@Drivingdownthe101

What was it in early March? Remember late March?

You can’t really compare the two situations though can you.
In early March there was no testing, no quarantining of arrivals from abroad, no social distancing, no track and trace, no self isolating for symptoms, no local lockdowns, no effective treatments as they had no idea what they were dealing with...

Please show me where these are? You are referring to them as if by now they were in place. THEY ARE NOT!

1. testing: numbers are fudged, so can't really believe them with certainty
2. "no quarantining of arrivals from abroad" - PLS BE INFORMED!!! there is no such thing now EITHER!!! the fact that the tabloids blast them doesn't make it true.They ask you to quarantine if they can be bothered
3. social distancing - well, that depends, SW london - not so much
4. "no self isolating for symptoms" - this was policy then for 14 days. Now it's only 7 or 10 days. And again: nobody checks it!!
5. "no effective treatments" - do we have one now? no.
6. TTR - oh please! It's more than a joke.