To be pissed off that secondary school are doing next to nothing about Covid?

[MushyMushi]

Despite the huge risk assessment, reassuring letters, promise of bubbles and social distancing, segregated classes, coloured badges, separate entrances and staggered times for year groups, masks in corridors etc...

Absolutely none of this has been enforced.

Small class bubbles have become bubbles of full year groups of 150 pupils. The segregated break areas have been mixing with all year groups with no enforcement by teachers. Masks aren’t being worn. Pupils are entering and leaving school whenever they feel like it.

Not to mention that if one case of Covid hits, the entire year group will be expected to self isolate for 14 days!

AIBU to think this is really poor or is this the reality of secondary schools now? They’ve only been back two days and it’s all gone to shit.

@MushyMushi

To those saying children aren’t going to be as affected by the virus...

Yes, in primary that’s probably true. But don’t secondary and older kids react in the same way as adults?

At 15, almost 16, my DD has the anatomy of an adult, as do 90% of her year group. I fail to see how this is safe.

I wish there was better provision for online learning. Send primaries back if that’s safe and operate a full online timetable for older children who are capable of being at home by themselves.

I was 100% in favour of schools going back. Now I realise everyone was right when they said it wouldn’t work.

OP can I kindly suggest that you dial down the hysteria and do some research into the statistics that will show you that the risk to this age group is very very low. In fact it is very low for those under 65 and certainly very very low under 40 with no serious underlying issues. I understand we want to do everything we can to protect our DC from all harm but this idea that we should sacrifice their education and mental health to eliminate all risk from Covid, something that is highly unlikely to cause serious illness is just ridiculous.

You should make additional protection for yourself. However, testing isn’t 100%, there is no vaccine and if we get one, it will not be a magic bullet but like the flu one. At some point in the very near future, we cannot permanently have dystopian outcomes in education, the economy and society to protect a small minority of the population.

@SaltyAndFresh No worries it is a stressful time for many, I just wanted to share a positive experience. So many people seem really critical of what schools are doing that I wanted to defend my schools - and actually how quickly they responded to something not particularly working - all of it is trial and error.

We are lucky that the secondary school in particular is a newer building and a campus style so it makes a lot of things easier to implement, plus the students are already used to following a one system as this is put into place during bad weather.

First day today with all 5 years in though.

Lindainlockdown- nice post🙄

Who exactly are you annoyed with? The school is following the shit guidance from the government.