@KeyboardWorriers
I don't think schools should stay open but I think they should all be given a proper directive to provide a genuinely good remote education. I had bright engaged children who loved learning and learn for pleasure in their own time too. They lost a lot of respect for their teachers when they saw the quality of what was provided when the "curriculum was suspended" and their teachers just all dicked about baking/gardening/ hot housing their own children and then sending chatting emails about it. .
(I am not saying all teachers did this, but that was what the teachers in their school did)
I want schools to close but alongside a concerted effort to make sure children can still access education.
That's exactly what has happened.
During the first lockdown, the Government chose to suspend the curriculum and change the status of schools from educational settings to childcare. In doing both of those things, they removed any legal responsibility for educating children from schools.
Any school doing more than nothing was doing more than the Government had instructed them to do or what they were obliged to do. Most schools did that, some very successfully but there were others that either prioritised other things. In some cases, that was right like one of my local schools who recognised that 84% of their pupils could not get online and so they spent the entire time preparing and delivering food, books, clothes etc. to the highly disadvantaged families. In others, like it sounds in the case of your child's school, it didn't work.
If schools close now, the curriculum won't be suspended and that legal responsibility will remain. In fact, it's been further reinforced with additional legislation. It would be a lot easier, however, if the Government had delivered on their promise to fund laptops and internet access rather than just repeating that promise again and again as if it had happened.