What do you deem notice?
Yes, we knew it was feasible we might have to move online. So we had trained the children up to use Google classroom, trained ourselves how to use tasks, thought about how we would manage it, identified resources, etc. We were ready to go if the time came.
But we were told we would be in school. The lessons we would usually deliver in school are very different from what is suitable to send home. So we planned for in school, because that is what we were told.
Let's look at few small examples - even converting small stuff like the morning starter takes time. Written to use in school, the easiest way to do it is to have one file per week shared between four teachers who teach a class at the same level each. To go on Google classroom for families to use, it needs to be split into a task per day and loaded onto the four separate classrooms. So one upload becomes twenty. It would be crazy to upload it twenty times on the off chance we might need it! (consider this is a ten minute starter task and a school day is six hours plus....)
Likewise, we are calling children at home in small groups. We knew we would do this. But we could not organise the groups until we knew which children would be in school and which at home. The numbers are totally different from last time as the government has radically changed the criteria.
We sent every password home (Mathletics, etc) on a laminated card to every family - that is us being prepared. Roughly 20% of my families lost the cards. It happens, but they needed to be provided again this week urgently as the call to go online came. What could I have done to cut that job down? Might not parents have realised the cards were missing earlier with more notice? I was in class teaching with my laptop, with another laptop next to me that I could use (in any tiny gap) to send out passwords to people as they asked, so did not have to wait to get started on their work...
We are lending children devices. Yes, we identified which children in advance but actually handing them out / signing loan agreements, etc, is a large administrative task. We were hardly going to hand them out on the off chance, we usually use them in school! We did get extra from the government (applied for months ago) - they came on Wednesday.
I would say we were as prepared as we reasonably could be, but I worked from 7 am - 12 am every day this week (just six pm today). Much of that work could have been staggered or not needed if the decision had been made earlier.
Please let's be realistic about what has been asked of people in education and not suggest we could have been better prepared.