To think that high levels of children being sent to school are the beginnings of lockdown resistance from the working age population

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I keep hearing widespread reports of high levels of children being sent to school under key worker provision. In the first lockdown many people did what they could to keep children at home, and employers tolerated this, but this time almost everyone I know even vaguely connected with a key worker occupation has been given a letter from their employer and told they must get their children to school. In almost all cases the parents are happy about this.

AIBU to think that this is the beginnings of resistance from younger people at continued school closures & lockdowns, when the statistics continue to be clear that few people under 50 who are not CEV are getting severely I'll with Covid?

YABU - no, people are supportive of school closures & wider lockdowns
YANBU - yes, younger people are becoming less tolerant of school closures/wider lockdowns

What @bigpricklyfern said. The government didn’t want to close schools, so half-arsed it by allowing as many children in as possible. If I’m really getting out my tinfoil hat I could speculate that they’re also giving teaching unions the finger, by making teachers jobs much harder while barely reducing their risk.

50% of DS’s class are in, and about 40% of DD’s. I don’t blame the parents.

I'm a teacher with almost 20 years if service, currently on mat leave. Teaching was hard enough already without this being dumped on schools from the government. Also feel so much for Heads and management.
There were already huge retention issues in teaching so I hate to think what this is going to do.
I am terrified about returning tbh.

I wanted schools closed I didn’t think it was safe for children being in a class of 35 with no masks or distancing I felt currently the risks for teachers and of DS bringing it home to us were too great. DH builds social housing and has a keyworker letter from work even though construction isn’t on the official government list. I teach adults so I believe I am a keyworker under education. As of this week I am entirely working from home, half my day is live teaching half is marking, planning admin etc. We have kept DS home. It’s made my life a little inconvenient but the way I see it I ve lost 10 hours a week school run and around 10 hours a week travelling for work so this time is now spent homeschooling DS without too much detriment to my productivity. My reasoning is I can keep DS home despite being entitled to a school place so I will, the more people that do this then the more the spread will reduce and we can get out of this. At the same time I recognise some people have no choice but to take up the place but I think where they can support home learning they should regardless of the job role even if this means having to work later into the evening than usual.

I think it’s also important to remember, certainly at DS school, there is no educational benefit to being in school, they are all doing the exact same work. The only benefits they have is the social benefit and I chatted with DS about this and he is happier at home. Plus he went back for one day this week and it was -1 and they had all the doors and windows open. He was freezing despite multiple layers and hat, scarf snd gloves. I don’t believe this is conducive to effective learning.

@Mrsfrumble

What *@bigpricklyfern* said. The government didn’t want to close schools, so half-arsed it by allowing as many children in as possible. If I’m really getting out my tinfoil hat I could speculate that they’re also giving teaching unions the finger, by making teachers jobs much harder while barely reducing their risk.

I agree everything they do is just a front like the nightingale hospitals were a front to keep us quiet and buy them a bit more time time to invent evermore convoluted ways to wriggle out of their true responsibilities and duties to the people:(

@Mrsfrumble I absolutely agree with what you say about the unions. It’s the government giving them the message ‘this is what you asked for, and it’s made life worse for the teachers, so next time don’t interfere’.