Denmark re opening Schools on Wednesday!

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Whats the general feeling on this? They say they have stabilised and are ready to reopen Schools and Day Centres on Wednesday! Seems a bit soon to me

When there’s nearly 1000 deaths a day in the UK I have no idea how people can think/want schools to reopen in England yet? I don’t think we are anywhere close. Teachers and school staff shouldn’t have to put their health and lives on the line. Nor should children.

So when school support staff (who in our school have been running the show) and then the odd teacher who goes in, all fall ill, and there's no one to run the school that some so desperately seem to want to open..
What then?

And children who lose a parent to this illness will suffer even more

Imo schools should be one of the last places to open.

Surely it will run like wild fire.

They can gradually reintroduce letting people out the houses opening a few non essential shops and see how the numbers go before opening schools..

In all countries with lockdown, once cases get down to a level the health services can cope with, plus safety margin
the economy must be restarted

That means that schools, especially primary schools, must re-open
so parents can get back to work

Children are in the absolute lowest risk group

and teachers won't be at any higher risk than all the millions of other workers commuting on crowded public transport to crowded places of work

Most predictions are that cases will fall to near-zero over summer, as the severity of most viruses usually drops massively then

So each country will aim to take advantage of its summer to get everyone back to work and school,
then reassess if some measures - even lockdown again - need to be imposed again for up to 6 months over Autumn and winter

Other thing to say is here they haven't been absolute in lockdown, there has been guidance that children are still allowed to play with each other if its outdoors, for a minimal time and its an established contact - This is an article on advice about playing from about a week into lockdown here which is probably reasonable through google translate.

politiken.dk/indland/art7721823/Sådan-må-dine-børn-lege-sammen

eg if your low risk child was at school with one or two equally healthy neighbours children and they were used to playing together in your gardens after school it was ok to continue this outdoor play for short periods occasionally after the lockdown started, while observing hygiene rules
but indoor playdate with a new friend, a party of over 10 people, birthday party, sleepover or making contact with lots of other children at a public place was not reasonable.(and soft play, sports places and playgrounds are shut anyway)

So many children are not diving back into seeing lots of people all at once, its more expanding an established pool of contacts with class and friends back to the full class numbers

It looks as though not all kommune (councils/municipalities) will be able or ready to open school provision on the 15th anyway, so may well be more staggered than originally planned. Plus there are still discussions about children in a household with suspected or proven corona that are holding in isolation.
The picture is certainly not business as usual!

@BigChocFrenzy ignorance statement. Teachers will be at huge risk. 1000 kids a day, all coughing spluttering etc etc. So store workers get screens and gloves, teachers are just supposed to suck it up? Lovely attitude

People keep bouncing about these figures about no cases during summer, anyone else noticed it’s hotter in Spain than most of our summer and it’s still going, same in India.

I would guess when cases start to sky rocket again with the second wave schools will close again. It’s a silly move to open them right now

Davincitoad - there wont be 1000s or even 100s of extra contacts for teachers, its not large secondaries going back with each teacher taking many classes per day.

At first it will be nurseries and some early primary grades (where class sizes and pupil/teacher ratios are in general much smaller than the UK) going back to small classes being taught by their own class teachers (with all the behavioural changes, handwashing etc carrying on as they have for the last few months) and increased cleaning, social distancing between other groups outside school. Theres certainly increased risk of exposure but its not thousands of contacts. Secondaries with the larger mixing will not be considered for reopening before mid May and even that is not certain.