Mass gathering to be banned - Secondary schools have 1300 students on average

[CheekyMango]

So, BBC presenter posed the question, that if a mass gathering is deemed 500+ as per Scottish govt then will parliament stop as when they gather their numbers are 650...so what about schools?

If the purpose is to limit the stress on emergency services fair enough. But is that all it is?

Big gatherings need police/ambulance/security, etc which arent needed in schools

Schools are local communities.
Mass gatherings tend to pull people in from further affield and are a higher risk for geographically spreading the virus.

Schools don't tend to have the full community gathering together. Classes are about 30 at a time. Assembly a couple of hundred- these could be stopped.

If schools are broken up, what do essential workers do for childcare... send them to elderly grandparents? Non-family arrangements still risk spreading anyway.

There should be an athorised option for high risk children or immediate family members to be able to self isolate without additional consequence, but enforcing the school population to stay off causes more issues than it solves.

I'd rather have an asymptomatic super-spreader in school, than have to lug them around the supermarket around a range of demographics, some at much higher risk.